Marawi
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Marawi is a predominantly Muslim city in the southern Philippines known for its cultural significance in Mindanao and for being heavily damaged during the 2017 siege between government forces and Islamist militants.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marawi canonical | 16 |
| Marawi City | 2 |
| Islamic City of Marawi | 1 |
| Marawi commercial district | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4606314 — 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: Marawi Context triple: [Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, includesCity, Marawi]
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A.
Moro Province
Moro Province was a former administrative region of the southern Philippines under U.S. colonial rule, encompassing much of the Muslim-majority areas in Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.
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B.
Balangiga
Balangiga is a coastal municipality in the province of Eastern Samar in the Philippines, historically known for the 1901 Balangiga encounter during the Philippine–American War.
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C.
Maguindanaon
The Maguindanaon are a Muslim ethnolinguistic group in the southern Philippines, primarily inhabiting the Cotabato region of Mindanao and known for their rich sultanate history and vibrant cultural traditions.
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D.
Zamboanga Sibugay
Zamboanga Sibugay is a province in the southern Philippines located on the Zamboanga Peninsula in the island of Mindanao.
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E.
Zamboanga del Norte
Zamboanga del Norte is a province in the Philippines known for its coastal landscapes, diverse cultures, and the city of Dipolog as its capital.
- 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: Marawi Target entity description: Marawi is a predominantly Muslim city in the southern Philippines known for its cultural significance in Mindanao and for being heavily damaged during the 2017 siege between government forces and Islamist militants.
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A.
Moro Province
Moro Province was a former administrative region of the southern Philippines under U.S. colonial rule, encompassing much of the Muslim-majority areas in Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.
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B.
Balangiga
Balangiga is a coastal municipality in the province of Eastern Samar in the Philippines, historically known for the 1901 Balangiga encounter during the Philippine–American War.
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C.
Maguindanaon
The Maguindanaon are a Muslim ethnolinguistic group in the southern Philippines, primarily inhabiting the Cotabato region of Mindanao and known for their rich sultanate history and vibrant cultural traditions.
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D.
Zamboanga Sibugay
Zamboanga Sibugay is a province in the southern Philippines located on the Zamboanga Peninsula in the island of Mindanao.
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E.
Zamboanga del Norte
Zamboanga del Norte is a province in the Philippines known for its coastal landscapes, diverse cultures, and the city of Dipolog as its capital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Marawi Description of subject: Marawi is a predominantly Muslim city in the southern Philippines known for its cultural significance in Mindanao and for being heavily damaged during the 2017 siege between government forces and Islamist militants.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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