Entebbe
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Entebbe is a town in central Uganda on a peninsula into Lake Victoria, known for its international airport and the site of the 1976 hostage-rescue operation.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Entebbe canonical | 23 |
| Entebbe Airport | 5 |
| Entebbe International Airport | 5 |
| Entebbe, Uganda | 3 |
| Entebbe Botanical Gardens | 1 |
| Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T342675 — 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: Entebbe Context triple: [Lake Victoria, nearCity, Entebbe]
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A.
Kampala
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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B.
Kisumu
Kisumu is a major Kenyan city on the shores of Lake Victoria, serving as a key commercial and transport hub in western Kenya.
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C.
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub in East Africa.
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D.
Uganda
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa known for its diverse landscapes, abundant wildlife, and location along the equator.
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E.
Managua
Managua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Managua in Central America.
- 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: Entebbe Target entity description: Entebbe is a town in central Uganda on a peninsula into Lake Victoria, known for its international airport and the site of the 1976 hostage-rescue operation.
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A.
Kampala
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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B.
Kisumu
Kisumu is a major Kenyan city on the shores of Lake Victoria, serving as a key commercial and transport hub in western Kenya.
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C.
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub in East Africa.
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D.
Uganda
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa known for its diverse landscapes, abundant wildlife, and location along the equator.
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E.
Managua
Managua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Managua in Central America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
botanical garden
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hospital ⓘ international airport ⓘ military operation ⓘ town ⓘ university ⓘ zoo ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Wakiso District ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Operation Thunderbolt ⓘ |
| carriedOutBy | Israel Defense Forces ⓘ |
| climate | tropical rainforest climate ⓘ |
| country |
Uganda
ⓘ
Uganda ⓘ |
| date | 1976 ⓘ |
| distanceTo | Kampala ⓘ |
| formerCapitalOf | Uganda ⓘ |
| hasAirport |
Entebbe
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Entebbe International Airport
|
| hasBotanicalGarden |
Entebbe
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Entebbe Botanical Gardens
|
| hasFeature |
lake shore beaches
ⓘ
peninsulas and bays on Lake Victoria ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationInstitution | Nkumba University ⓘ |
| hasHospital |
Entebbe
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital
|
| hasPort | Port Bell–Entebbe ferry route ⓘ |
| hasZoo | Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre ⓘ |
| isOnShoreOf | Lake Victoria ⓘ |
| knownFor |
1976 hostage-rescue operation
ⓘ
Entebbe self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Entebbe International Airport
Operation Entebbe ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
English
ⓘ
Luganda ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Buganda
ⓘ
Central Region, Uganda ⓘ Entebbe self-linksurface differs ⓘ Entebbe self-linksurface differs ⓘ Entebbe self-linksurface differs ⓘ Entebbe self-linksurface differs ⓘ Entebbe self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Lake Victoria
ⓘ
peninsula ⓘ |
| locatedSouthwestOf | Kampala ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Lakes Region of Africa
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surface form:
Great Lakes region of Africa
|
| serves | Kampala ⓘ |
| timeZone | East Africa Time ⓘ |
| tookPlaceAt |
Entebbe
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Entebbe Airport
|
| tookPlaceIn | Entebbe self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +3 ⓘ |
| wasSeatOf | Government of Uganda ⓘ |
| wasSeatOfGovernmentUntil | 1962 ⓘ |
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: Entebbe Description of subject: Entebbe is a town in central Uganda on a peninsula into Lake Victoria, known for its international airport and the site of the 1976 hostage-rescue operation.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Entebbe International Airport
this entity surface form:
Entebbe International Airport
subject surface form:
Entebbe International Airport
this entity surface form:
Entebbe International Airport
subject surface form:
Operation Entebbe
this entity surface form:
Entebbe Airport
subject surface form:
Operation Entebbe
this entity surface form:
Entebbe Botanical Gardens
subject surface form:
Entebbe Botanical Gardens
subject surface form:
Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre
this entity surface form:
Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital
subject surface form:
Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital
this entity surface form:
Entebbe, Uganda
this entity surface form:
Entebbe, Uganda
this entity surface form:
Entebbe Airport
this entity surface form:
Entebbe International Airport
this entity surface form:
Entebbe Airport
this entity surface form:
Entebbe Airport
this entity surface form:
Entebbe Airport
this entity surface form:
Entebbe International Airport
subject surface form:
Nile Basin Initiative
this entity surface form:
Entebbe, Uganda