Asaba
E254229
Asaba is the capital city of Delta State in southern Nigeria, situated on the western bank of the River Niger and serving as an important administrative and commercial center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asaba canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2308806 — 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: Asaba Context triple: [Ogwashi-Ukwu, hasRoadConnectionTo, Asaba]
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A.
Makokou
Makokou is a small town in northeastern Gabon that serves as a key access point to the surrounding rainforest and protected areas.
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B.
Benina
Benina is a town in eastern Libya that serves as the main gateway to the nearby city of Benghazi through its international airport.
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C.
Bagana
Bagana is an active stratovolcano on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea, known for its frequent eruptions and extensive lava flows.
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D.
Afula
Afula is a city in northern Israel often referred to as the "Capital of the Jezreel Valley," serving as a regional commercial and transportation hub.
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E.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
- 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: Asaba Target entity description: Asaba is the capital city of Delta State in southern Nigeria, situated on the western bank of the River Niger and serving as an important administrative and commercial center.
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A.
Makokou
Makokou is a small town in northeastern Gabon that serves as a key access point to the surrounding rainforest and protected areas.
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B.
Benina
Benina is a town in eastern Libya that serves as the main gateway to the nearby city of Benghazi through its international airport.
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C.
Bagana
Bagana is an active stratovolcano on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea, known for its frequent eruptions and extensive lava flows.
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D.
Afula
Afula is a city in northern Israel often referred to as the "Capital of the Jezreel Valley," serving as a regional commercial and transportation hub.
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E.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
capital city ⓘ city ⓘ sports stadium ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionLevel | state capital within federal republic ⓘ |
| callingCode | +234 (Nigeria) ⓘ |
| climate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| currency | Nigerian naira ⓘ |
| drivingSide | right-hand traffic ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
government administration
ⓘ
services ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| electricityStandard | 230V 50Hz ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Igbo people
ⓘ
surface form:
Igbo (Anioma) people
|
| governingBody | Asaba Municipal authorities ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Asaba International Airport ⓘ |
| hasExecutiveFunction | seat of Delta State Government ⓘ |
| hasJudicialFunction | location of key Delta State courts ⓘ |
| hasLegislativeFunction | seat of Delta State House of Assembly (in the city) ⓘ |
| hasStadium | Stephen Keshi Stadium ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Anioma area of Delta State ⓘ |
| isCapitalOf | Delta State ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Asaba
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Delta State ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Southern Nigeria ⓘ |
| locatedOnBankOfRiver | western bank of the River Niger ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Niger River
ⓘ
Niger River ⓘ |
| majorRiver | Niger River ⓘ |
| nearbyCityAcrossRiver | Onitsha ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Niger Delta
ⓘ
surface form:
Niger Delta region (broadly defined)
|
| populationTrend | growing urban population ⓘ |
| postalCodeType | Nigerian postal code ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity (majority) ⓘ |
| roadConnection |
connected by highway to Benin City
ⓘ
connected by highway to Onitsha ⓘ connected by highway to Warri ⓘ |
| role |
administrative centre
ⓘ
commercial centre ⓘ |
| serves | Asaba self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | state capital ⓘ |
| timezone |
West Africa Time (WAT)
ⓘ
surface form:
West Africa Time
|
| transportRole | regional transport hub ⓘ |
| urbanStatus | fast-developing city ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +1 ⓘ |
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: Asaba Description of subject: Asaba is the capital city of Delta State in southern Nigeria, situated on the western bank of the River Niger and serving as an important administrative and commercial center.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.