Yaba
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Yaba is a bustling commercial and residential district on Lagos Mainland in Nigeria, known for its markets, educational institutions, and growing tech startup scene.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yaba canonical | 7 |
| Yaba, Lagos | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2669816 — 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: Yaba Context triple: [Third Mainland Bridge, near, Yaba]
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A.
Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
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B.
Ibadan
Ibadan is one of the largest and most populous cities in southwestern Nigeria, historically significant as a major Yoruba cultural and economic center.
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C.
Dandora
Dandora is a residential and industrial area in Nairobi, Kenya, best known for hosting one of Africa’s largest open-air garbage dumps.
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D.
Lekki
Lekki is the official mascot character created for the XVIII Olympic Winter Games.
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E.
Lekki
Lekki is a fictional companion mascot character associated with Nokki, likely designed as a cute, supportive sidekick figure.
- 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: Yaba Target entity description: Yaba is a bustling commercial and residential district on Lagos Mainland in Nigeria, known for its markets, educational institutions, and growing tech startup scene.
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A.
Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
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B.
Ibadan
Ibadan is one of the largest and most populous cities in southwestern Nigeria, historically significant as a major Yoruba cultural and economic center.
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C.
Dandora
Dandora is a residential and industrial area in Nairobi, Kenya, best known for hosting one of Africa’s largest open-air garbage dumps.
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D.
Lekki
Lekki is the official mascot character created for the XVIII Olympic Winter Games.
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E.
Lekki
Lekki is a fictional companion mascot character associated with Nokki, likely designed as a cute, supportive sidekick figure.
- 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: Yaba Description of subject: Yaba is a bustling commercial and residential district on Lagos Mainland in Nigeria, known for its markets, educational institutions, and growing tech startup scene.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yaba, Lagos
subject surface form:
Bariga