Kotte
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Kotte is a historic Sri Lankan city that once served as the capital of a medieval kingdom and later gave its name to the modern administrative capital, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kotte canonical | 11 |
| King of Kotte | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3844459 — 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: Kotte Context triple: [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, formerName, Kotte]
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A.
Koggala
Koggala is a coastal town in southern Sri Lanka known for its scenic beach, lagoon, and proximity to the historic city of Galle.
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B.
Kalutara
Kalutara is a major coastal town in western Sri Lanka, known for its historic Buddhist temple, scenic beaches, and role as a regional commercial hub.
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C.
Kandy
Kandy is a historic city in central Sri Lanka renowned for its cultural heritage, including the Temple of the Tooth and its role as a former royal stronghold.
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D.
Jaffna
Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
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E.
Aluthgama
Aluthgama is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, tourism, and location along major road and rail routes.
- 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: Kotte Target entity description: Kotte is a historic Sri Lankan city that once served as the capital of a medieval kingdom and later gave its name to the modern administrative capital, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.
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A.
Koggala
Koggala is a coastal town in southern Sri Lanka known for its scenic beach, lagoon, and proximity to the historic city of Galle.
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B.
Kalutara
Kalutara is a major coastal town in western Sri Lanka, known for its historic Buddhist temple, scenic beaches, and role as a regional commercial hub.
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C.
Kandy
Kandy is a historic city in central Sri Lanka renowned for its cultural heritage, including the Temple of the Tooth and its role as a former royal stronghold.
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D.
Jaffna
Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
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E.
Aluthgama
Aluthgama is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, tourism, and location along major road and rail routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
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: Kotte Description of subject: Kotte is a historic Sri Lankan city that once served as the capital of a medieval kingdom and later gave its name to the modern administrative capital, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King of Kotte
subject surface form:
Parliament of Sri Lanka