Tocumen
E421981
Tocumen is a town in Panama City’s eastern outskirts best known for hosting Panama’s main international airport and serving as a key gateway to Central and South America.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tocumen canonical | 3 |
| Tocumen area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4212401 — 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: Tocumen Context triple: [Tocumen International Airport, nearbyCity, Tocumen]
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A.
San Cristobal
San Cristobal is the former name of Makira, a large island in the Solomon Islands known for its rich biodiversity and traditional Melanesian culture.
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B.
Aracataca
Aracataca is a town in northern Colombia best known as the birthplace of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and the real-life inspiration for the fictional village of Macondo in his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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C.
Gurabo
Gurabo is a municipality in eastern Puerto Rico known for its suburban character, scenic hills, and integration into the greater San Juan metropolitan region.
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D.
Tocaima
Tocaima is a historic Colombian town in the Cundinamarca Department, known for its warm climate and thermal springs.
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E.
Bejucal
Bejucal is a Cuban town and municipality known for its historic role in the island’s early railway system and its traditional “Charangas de Bejucal” carnival festivities.
- 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: Tocumen Target entity description: Tocumen is a town in Panama City’s eastern outskirts best known for hosting Panama’s main international airport and serving as a key gateway to Central and South America.
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A.
San Cristobal
San Cristobal is the former name of Makira, a large island in the Solomon Islands known for its rich biodiversity and traditional Melanesian culture.
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B.
Aracataca
Aracataca is a town in northern Colombia best known as the birthplace of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and the real-life inspiration for the fictional village of Macondo in his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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C.
Gurabo
Gurabo is a municipality in eastern Puerto Rico known for its suburban character, scenic hills, and integration into the greater San Juan metropolitan region.
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D.
Tocaima
Tocaima is a historic Colombian town in the Cundinamarca Department, known for its warm climate and thermal springs.
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E.
Bejucal
Bejucal is a Cuban town and municipality known for its historic role in the island’s early railway system and its traditional “Charangas de Bejucal” carnival festivities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international airport
ⓘ
populated place ⓘ town ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Panama ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Tocumen International Airport ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
gateway for international air travel to Panama
ⓘ
transport hub ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure | international airport hub ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a key air gateway to Central America
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being a key air gateway to South America ⓘ hosting Panama’s main international airport ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Panama City
ⓘ
Panamá Province ⓘ Tocumen ⓘ eastern outskirts of Panama City ⓘ |
| partOf | metropolitan area of Panama City ⓘ |
| role |
main international airport of Panama
ⓘ
major hub for flights between North and South America ⓘ |
| serves | Panama City ⓘ |
| subregion | Central America ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Eastern Standard Time (no DST)
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linked to:
Eastern Standard Time (Mexico)
UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
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: Tocumen Description of subject: Tocumen is a town in Panama City’s eastern outskirts best known for hosting Panama’s main international airport and serving as a key gateway to Central and South America.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tocumen