Elmina
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Elmina is a historic coastal town in present-day Ghana, best known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its prominent Elmina Castle.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elmina canonical | 12 |
| Elmina fishing harbor | 2 |
| São Jorge da Mina | 2 |
| Elmina fish market | 1 |
| Elmina fishing harbour | 1 |
| Elmina town | 1 |
| Elmina, Ghana | 1 |
| town of Elmina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1862982 — 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: Elmina Context triple: [Gold Coast, hasPort, Elmina]
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A.
Elmina Castle
Elmina Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that became one of the most significant hubs of the transatlantic slave trade.
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B.
Cape Coast
Cape Coast is a historic coastal city in southern Ghana known for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its well-preserved colonial-era castle.
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C.
Ouidah
Ouidah is a coastal city in Benin historically known as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and for its rich Vodun (Voodoo) cultural heritage.
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D.
Calabar
Calabar is a historic port city in southeastern Nigeria known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its vibrant cultural festivals.
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E.
Cape Coast Castle
Cape Coast Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that served as one of the largest centers of British transatlantic slave trade in West Africa.
- 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: Elmina Target entity description: Elmina is a historic coastal town in present-day Ghana, best known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its prominent Elmina Castle.
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A.
Elmina Castle
Elmina Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that became one of the most significant hubs of the transatlantic slave trade.
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B.
Cape Coast
Cape Coast is a historic coastal city in southern Ghana known for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its well-preserved colonial-era castle.
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C.
Ouidah
Ouidah is a coastal city in Benin historically known as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and for its rich Vodun (Voodoo) cultural heritage.
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D.
Calabar
Calabar is a historic port city in southeastern Nigeria known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its vibrant cultural festivals.
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E.
Cape Coast Castle
Cape Coast Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that served as one of the largest centers of British transatlantic slave trade in West Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Elmina Description of subject: Elmina is a historic coastal town in present-day Ghana, best known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its prominent Elmina Castle.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Elmina fishing harbor
this entity surface form:
Elmina fish market
this entity surface form:
Elmina, Ghana
this entity surface form:
São Jorge da Mina
this entity surface form:
town of Elmina
this entity surface form:
Elmina town
this entity surface form:
São Jorge da Mina
this entity surface form:
Elmina fishing harbour
this entity surface form:
Elmina fishing harbor