Oc Eo
E479515
Oc Eo was an important ancient trading port and archaeological site of the Funan civilization in the Mekong Delta region of present-day southern Vietnam, linking maritime routes between India and Southeast Asia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oc Eo canonical | 1 |
| Oc Eo culture | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4910636 — 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: Oc Eo Context triple: [India–Southeast Asia, majorPort, Oc Eo]
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A.
Baphuon
Baphuon is an 11th-century Hindu temple mountain in Angkor, Cambodia, renowned for its grand pyramidal architecture and later conversion into a Buddhist site.
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B.
Mỹ Sơn temple complex
Mỹ Sơn temple complex is an ancient Hindu temple sanctuary in central Vietnam, renowned as a major religious and political center of the Champa civilization and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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C.
Tran Quoc Pagoda
Tran Quoc Pagoda is an ancient and historically significant Buddhist temple in Hanoi, Vietnam, renowned for its picturesque setting on a small islet in West Lake.
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D.
Huế
Huế is a historic city in central Vietnam that served as the imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty and is renowned for its ancient citadel, royal tombs, and rich cultural heritage.
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E.
Bach Ma Temple
Bach Ma Temple is one of Hanoi’s oldest and most revered temples, dedicated to a white horse spirit and situated in the historic Old Quarter.
- 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: Oc Eo Target entity description: Oc Eo was an important ancient trading port and archaeological site of the Funan civilization in the Mekong Delta region of present-day southern Vietnam, linking maritime routes between India and Southeast Asia.
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A.
Baphuon
Baphuon is an 11th-century Hindu temple mountain in Angkor, Cambodia, renowned for its grand pyramidal architecture and later conversion into a Buddhist site.
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B.
Mỹ Sơn temple complex
Mỹ Sơn temple complex is an ancient Hindu temple sanctuary in central Vietnam, renowned as a major religious and political center of the Champa civilization and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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C.
Tran Quoc Pagoda
Tran Quoc Pagoda is an ancient and historically significant Buddhist temple in Hanoi, Vietnam, renowned for its picturesque setting on a small islet in West Lake.
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D.
Huế
Huế is a historic city in central Vietnam that served as the imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty and is renowned for its ancient citadel, royal tombs, and rich cultural heritage.
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E.
Bach Ma Temple
Bach Ma Temple is one of Hanoi’s oldest and most revered temples, dedicated to a white horse spirit and situated in the historic Old Quarter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient port city
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archaeological site ⓘ trading port ⓘ |
| archaeologicalCulture | Oc Eo culture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Funan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Gulf of Thailand
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South China Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Viet Nam
ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam
|
| culture | early Southeast Asian urban culture ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Louis Malleret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | Louis Malleret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| excavationStartDate | 1942 ⓘ |
| flourishedIn |
1st millennium CE
ⓘ
early centuries CE ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFind |
Roman intaglios
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beads ⓘ brick structures ⓘ canal system remains ⓘ ceramics ⓘ gold jewelry ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
network of canals
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religious structures ⓘ urban settlement pattern ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | important archaeological heritage site of Vietnam ⓘ |
| inferredFrom | Chinese historical records of Funan ⓘ |
| knownFor |
archaeological remains
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long-distance commerce ⓘ maritime trade ⓘ |
| linkedTradeRoutesBetween |
India
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mekong Delta
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Vietnam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | An Giang Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Funan civilization
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
lower Mekong region ⓘ |
| region | Mainland Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
early Buddhist influences
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early Hindu influences ⓘ |
| significance |
evidence for early state formation in mainland Southeast Asia
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key node in early Southeast Asian maritime trade network ⓘ |
| timePeriod | approximately 1st–7th centuries CE ⓘ |
| tradeWith |
China
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman world ⓘ other Southeast Asian polities ⓘ |
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: Oc Eo Description of subject: Oc Eo was an important ancient trading port and archaeological site of the Funan civilization in the Mekong Delta region of present-day southern Vietnam, linking maritime routes between India and Southeast Asia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dong Son culture
this entity surface form:
Oc Eo culture