Shah Alam
E263387
Shah Alam is a planned city in Malaysia known as the administrative and commercial center of the state of Selangor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shah Alam canonical | 15 |
| Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1880103 — 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: Shah Alam Context triple: [Selangor, capital, Shah Alam]
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A.
Alor Setar
Alor Setar is a major city in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia known as an administrative, cultural, and commercial hub near the border with Thailand.
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B.
Putrajaya
Putrajaya is Malaysia’s planned federal administrative capital, known for its modern architecture, landscaped boulevards, and numerous government complexes.
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C.
Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru is a large, rapidly developing city in southern Peninsular Malaysia, located just across the causeway from Singapore and serving as the capital of Johor state.
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D.
Sungai Petani
Sungai Petani is a major commercial and residential town in the Malaysian state of Kedah, known as one of its largest and most rapidly developing urban centers.
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E.
Port Klang
Port Klang is Malaysia’s largest and busiest seaport, serving as a major maritime gateway on the country’s west coast and a key hub for regional and international trade.
- 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: Shah Alam Target entity description: Shah Alam is a planned city in Malaysia known as the administrative and commercial center of the state of Selangor.
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A.
Alor Setar
Alor Setar is a major city in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia known as an administrative, cultural, and commercial hub near the border with Thailand.
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B.
Putrajaya
Putrajaya is Malaysia’s planned federal administrative capital, known for its modern architecture, landscaped boulevards, and numerous government complexes.
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C.
Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru is a large, rapidly developing city in southern Peninsular Malaysia, located just across the causeway from Singapore and serving as the capital of Johor state.
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D.
Sungai Petani
Sungai Petani is a major commercial and residential town in the Malaysian state of Kedah, known as one of its largest and most rapidly developing urban centers.
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E.
Port Klang
Port Klang is Malaysia’s largest and busiest seaport, serving as a major maritime gateway on the country’s west coast and a key hub for regional and international trade.
- 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: Shah Alam Description of subject: Shah Alam is a planned city in Malaysia known as the administrative and commercial center of the state of Selangor.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia