Kegalle
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Kegalle is a major town in central Sri Lanka known for its rubber plantations and proximity to the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kegalle canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4820216 — 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: Kegalle Context triple: [Sabaragamuwa Province, hasCity, Kegalle]
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A.
Dambulla
Dambulla is a historic town in Sri Lanka best known for its UNESCO-listed cave temple complex featuring ancient Buddhist murals and statues.
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B.
Badulla
Badulla is a major town in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, known as the capital of Uva Province and a regional hub surrounded by tea plantations and scenic mountain landscapes.
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C.
Gampola
Gampola is a historic town in Sri Lanka known for its former status as a medieval capital and its scenic hill-country setting.
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D.
Ambalangoda
Ambalangoda is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its traditional mask carving and puppet arts.
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E.
Maharagama
Maharagama is a suburban city in the Colombo District of Sri Lanka, known as a densely populated residential and commercial hub within the Colombo metropolitan area.
- 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: Kegalle Target entity description: Kegalle is a major town in central Sri Lanka known for its rubber plantations and proximity to the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
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A.
Dambulla
Dambulla is a historic town in Sri Lanka best known for its UNESCO-listed cave temple complex featuring ancient Buddhist murals and statues.
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B.
Badulla
Badulla is a major town in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, known as the capital of Uva Province and a regional hub surrounded by tea plantations and scenic mountain landscapes.
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C.
Gampola
Gampola is a historic town in Sri Lanka known for its former status as a medieval capital and its scenic hill-country setting.
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D.
Ambalangoda
Ambalangoda is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its traditional mask carving and puppet arts.
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E.
Maharagama
Maharagama is a suburban city in the Colombo District of Sri Lanka, known as a densely populated residential and commercial hub within the Colombo metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Kegalle Description of subject: Kegalle is a major town in central Sri Lanka known for its rubber plantations and proximity to the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.