Bobo-Dioulasso
E241604
Bobo-Dioulasso is the second-largest city of Burkina Faso, known as a major economic and cultural center in the country’s southwest.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bobo-Dioulasso canonical | 36 |
| Bobo-Dioulasso metropolitan area | 2 |
| Bobo-Dioulasso city center | 1 |
| Bobo-Dioulasso urban area | 1 |
| Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Old Town of Bobo-Dioulasso | 1 |
| RC Bobo-Dioulasso | 1 |
| city of Bobo-Dioulasso | 1 |
| municipality of Bobo-Dioulasso | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1973946 — 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: Bobo-Dioulasso Context triple: [Burkina Faso, hasMajorCity, Bobo-Dioulasso]
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A.
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center in the Sahel region.
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B.
Yamoussoukro
Yamoussoukro is the political capital of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its grand basilica and role as an administrative center in the French-speaking world.
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C.
Bamako
Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in West Africa.
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D.
Koulikoro
Koulikoro is a town and region in southwestern Mali, situated along the Niger River and serving as an important administrative and transport hub.
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E.
Sikasso
Sikasso is a major city in southern Mali known as an important agricultural and commercial center near the borders with Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.
- 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: Bobo-Dioulasso Target entity description: Bobo-Dioulasso is the second-largest city of Burkina Faso, known as a major economic and cultural center in the country’s southwest.
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A.
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center in the Sahel region.
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B.
Yamoussoukro
Yamoussoukro is the political capital of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its grand basilica and role as an administrative center in the French-speaking world.
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C.
Bamako
Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in West Africa.
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D.
Koulikoro
Koulikoro is a town and region in southwestern Mali, situated along the Niger River and serving as an important administrative and transport hub.
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E.
Sikasso
Sikasso is a major city in southern Mali known as an important agricultural and commercial center near the borders with Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Bobo-Dioulasso Description of subject: Bobo-Dioulasso is the second-largest city of Burkina Faso, known as a major economic and cultural center in the country’s southwest.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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