Tidore
E171963
Tidore is an island and historic sultanate in eastern Indonesia that was once a major center of the regional spice trade.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tidore canonical | 20 |
| Tidore Islands City | 3 |
| Tidore (city) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1476803 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tidore Context triple: [Maluku Islands, contains, Tidore]
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A.
Ternate
Ternate is a small volcanic island and city in eastern Indonesia that was historically a major center of the global spice trade, especially for cloves.
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B.
Oecusse
Oecusse is a coastal exclave region of Timor-Leste located on the northwestern part of Timor island, separated from the country's main territory by Indonesian land.
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C.
Celebes
Celebes, now known as Sulawesi, is a large, uniquely shaped island in Indonesia renowned for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich marine biodiversity.
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D.
Macassar
Macassar is the former name of Makassar, a major port city on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia known historically as an important center of trade and maritime power.
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E.
Sumbawa
Sumbawa is an island in central Indonesia, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands, known for its volcanic landscapes, surfing spots, and relatively low population density compared to neighboring Bali and Lombok.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tidore Target entity description: Tidore is an island and historic sultanate in eastern Indonesia that was once a major center of the regional spice trade.
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A.
Ternate
Ternate is a small volcanic island and city in eastern Indonesia that was historically a major center of the global spice trade, especially for cloves.
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B.
Oecusse
Oecusse is a coastal exclave region of Timor-Leste located on the northwestern part of Timor island, separated from the country's main territory by Indonesian land.
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C.
Celebes
Celebes, now known as Sulawesi, is a large, uniquely shaped island in Indonesia renowned for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich marine biodiversity.
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D.
Macassar
Macassar is the former name of Makassar, a major port city on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia known historically as an important center of trade and maritime power.
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E.
Sumbawa
Sumbawa is an island in central Indonesia, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands, known for its volcanic landscapes, surfing spots, and relatively low population density compared to neighboring Bali and Lombok.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tidore Description of subject: Tidore is an island and historic sultanate in eastern Indonesia that was once a major center of the regional spice trade.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tidore
linked to: Tidore
linked to: Tidore
linked to: Tidore