Site 25
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Site 25 is one of the archaeological jar sites within Laos’s Plain of Jars, featuring clusters of ancient megalithic stone jars whose origins and purpose remain partly mysterious.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Site 25 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3088108 — 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: Site 25 Context triple: [Plain of Jars, hasPart, Site 25]
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A.
Site 23
Site 23 is one of the designated jar clusters within Laos’s ancient Plain of Jars archaeological complex, known for its scattered megalithic stone vessels.
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B.
Site 16
Site 16 is one of the designated jar-bearing locations within Laos’s Plain of Jars archaeological landscape, known for its clusters of ancient megalithic stone vessels.
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C.
Site 52
Site 52 is one of the designated jar-bearing locations within Laos’s Plain of Jars archaeological landscape, known for its clusters of ancient megalithic stone vessels.
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D.
Site 1
Site 1 is the most visited and extensively studied cluster of ancient stone jars on Laos’s Plain of Jars, notable for its large concentration of megalithic vessels and accessibility to tourists.
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E.
Sito
Sito is an epithet of the Greek goddess Demeter that emphasizes her role as the provider of grain and sustenance.
- 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: Site 25 Target entity description: Site 25 is one of the archaeological jar sites within Laos’s Plain of Jars, featuring clusters of ancient megalithic stone jars whose origins and purpose remain partly mysterious.
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A.
Site 23
Site 23 is one of the designated jar clusters within Laos’s ancient Plain of Jars archaeological complex, known for its scattered megalithic stone vessels.
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B.
Site 2
Site 2 is one of the principal jar-bearing locations within Laos’s Plain of Jars archaeological complex, known for its clusters of ancient megalithic stone vessels.
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C.
Site 16
Site 16 is one of the designated jar-bearing locations within Laos’s Plain of Jars archaeological landscape, known for its clusters of ancient megalithic stone vessels.
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D.
Site 52
Site 52 is one of the designated jar-bearing locations within Laos’s Plain of Jars archaeological landscape, known for its clusters of ancient megalithic stone vessels.
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E.
Site 1
Site 1 is the most visited and extensively studied cluster of ancient stone jars on Laos’s Plain of Jars, notable for its large concentration of megalithic vessels and accessibility to tourists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
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jar site ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
UNESCO World Heritage property "Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars"
ⓘ
surface form:
Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang
Plain of Jars ⓘ
surface form:
Plain of Jars cultural landscape
|
| conservationStatus | subject to archaeological conservation and management plans ⓘ |
| country | Laos ⓘ |
| culturalAttribution | prehistoric societies of the Xiangkhouang Plateau ⓘ |
| estimatedDateRange | approximately 500 BCE–500 CE ⓘ |
| governedBy | heritage management authorities of Lao PDR ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
archaeological deposits
ⓘ
associated stone discs ⓘ burial-related features ⓘ megalithic stone jars ⓘ stone jar clusters ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfStructure | megalith ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | component of UNESCO World Heritage Site "Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars" ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | World Heritage component site ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Laos
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surface form:
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
northern Laos ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Xiangkhouang Plateau ⓘ |
| locatedOn | upland plateau landscape ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| partOf |
UNESCO World Heritage property "Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars"
ⓘ
surface form:
Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
Plain of Jars ⓘ |
| period | Iron Age ⓘ |
| purpose |
funerary use (hypothesized)
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ritual use (hypothesized) ⓘ |
| researchStatus |
function partly mysterious
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origins partly unknown ⓘ |
| significance |
evidence of complex mortuary practices in prehistoric Laos
ⓘ
important for understanding megalithic traditions in Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| subjectOf | archaeological research on Plain of Jars ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
natural weathering
ⓘ
past conflict-related disturbances in Plain of Jars region ⓘ |
| tourism | accessible to visitors under controlled conditions ⓘ |
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: Site 25 Description of subject: Site 25 is one of the archaeological jar sites within Laos’s Plain of Jars, featuring clusters of ancient megalithic stone jars whose origins and purpose remain partly mysterious.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.