Cooma
E366500
Cooma is a town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the Snowy Mountains and the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cooma canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3555865 — 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: Cooma Context triple: [Lake Eucumbene, locatedNear, Cooma]
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A.
Coma Pedrosa
Coma Pedrosa is the tallest mountain in Andorra, known for its rugged alpine terrain and popular hiking routes.
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B.
Comedown
"Comedown" is a 1995 grunge-influenced rock song by Bush, known for its brooding lyrics and Gavin Rossdale's distinctive vocal performance.
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C.
Stupor mundi
Stupor mundi is the Latin epithet meaning "Wonder of the World," famously applied to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, for his extraordinary intellect, cultural sophistication, and political influence in medieval Europe.
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D.
Insomniac
Insomniac is a 1995 punk rock album by Green Day, known for its heavier, darker sound and fast-paced, aggressive songs.
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E.
Taphus
Taphus was the original name of the town that later became Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- 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: Cooma Target entity description: Cooma is a town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the Snowy Mountains and the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
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A.
Coma Pedrosa
Coma Pedrosa is the tallest mountain in Andorra, known for its rugged alpine terrain and popular hiking routes.
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B.
Comedown
"Comedown" is a 1995 grunge-influenced rock song by Bush, known for its brooding lyrics and Gavin Rossdale's distinctive vocal performance.
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C.
Stupor mundi
Stupor mundi is the Latin epithet meaning "Wonder of the World," famously applied to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, for his extraordinary intellect, cultural sophistication, and political influence in medieval Europe.
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D.
Insomniac
Insomniac is a 1995 punk rock album by Green Day, known for its heavier, darker sound and fast-paced, aggressive songs.
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E.
Taphus
Taphus was the original name of the town that later became Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| administrativeRole | administrative centre for Snowy Monaro Regional Council ⓘ |
| airport | Cooma–Snowy Mountains Airport ⓘ |
| climate | cool oceanic climate ⓘ |
| climateFeature |
cold winters
ⓘ
warm to hot summers ⓘ |
| contains |
Avenue of the Flags
ⓘ
surface form:
Avenue of Flags
Centennial Park ⓘ Cooma Gaol ⓘ Snowy Hydro Discovery Centre ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| distanceFrom |
about 120 kilometres south of Canberra
ⓘ
about 400 kilometres south-west of Sydney ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
service centre for Snowy Mountains region ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| education |
high school
ⓘ
primary schools ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 800 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| foundedAsTown | 1840s ⓘ |
| gazettedAsMunicipality | 1879 ⓘ |
| gazettedAsTown | 1849 ⓘ |
| hasRailwayHistory | former terminus of the Cooma–Monaro railway line ⓘ |
| highway |
Monaro Highway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Snowy Mountains Highway ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the Snowy Mountains Scheme
ⓘ
multicultural heritage linked to Snowy Scheme workers ⓘ proximity to Snowy Mountains ski fields ⓘ |
| localGovernmentArea | Snowy Monaro Regional Council ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Snowy Mountains
ⓘ
surface form:
Snowy Mountains region
South East New South Wales ⓘ |
| nearbyAttraction | Kosciuszko National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyTown |
Berridale
ⓘ
Jindabyne ⓘ Nimmitabel ⓘ |
| population | over 6,000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| postcode | 2630 ⓘ |
| region | Monaro ⓘ |
| river | near the Murrumbidgee River ⓘ |
| role |
gateway to the Snowy Mountains
ⓘ
gateway to the Snowy Mountains Scheme ⓘ |
| sports |
rugby league
ⓘ
rugby union ⓘ soccer ⓘ |
| state | New South Wales ⓘ |
| timezone | AEST ⓘ |
| timezoneDST | AEDT ⓘ |
| traditionalOwners | Ngarigo people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transport | served by regional bus services ⓘ |
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: Cooma Description of subject: Cooma is a town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the Snowy Mountains and the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.