Ile-Ife
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Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ile-Ife canonical | 44 |
| Ife | 5 |
| Ile-Ife traditional domain | 2 |
| Ile-Ife archaeological complex | 1 |
| Ile-Ife city-state | 1 |
| ancient city of Ife | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T441452 — 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: Ile-Ife Context triple: [Yoruba, historicalCenter, Ile-Ife]
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A.
Ibadan
Ibadan is one of the largest and most populous cities in southwestern Nigeria, historically significant as a major Yoruba cultural and economic center.
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B.
Ijaw
The Ijaw are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, known for their riverine culture, fishing traditions, and significant role in the country's oil-producing areas.
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C.
Yenagoa
Yenagoa is the capital city of Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria, located in the oil-rich Niger Delta region.
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D.
Lagos
Lagos is a historic coastal city in Portugal’s Algarve region, known for its scenic beaches, dramatic cliffs, and well-preserved old town.
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E.
Lagos
Lagos is a major coastal megacity in southwestern Nigeria, known as the country’s economic hub and one of Africa’s most populous and vibrant urban centers.
- 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: Ile-Ife Target entity description: Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
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A.
Ibadan
Ibadan is one of the largest and most populous cities in southwestern Nigeria, historically significant as a major Yoruba cultural and economic center.
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B.
Ijaw
The Ijaw are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, known for their riverine culture, fishing traditions, and significant role in the country's oil-producing areas.
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C.
Yenagoa
Yenagoa is the capital city of Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria, located in the oil-rich Niger Delta region.
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D.
Lagos
Lagos is a major coastal megacity in southwestern Nigeria, known as the country’s economic hub and one of Africa’s most populous and vibrant urban centers.
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E.
Lagos
Lagos is a historic coastal city in Portugal’s Algarve region, known for its scenic beaches, dramatic cliffs, and well-preserved old town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yoruba city
ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ city ⓘ |
| archaeologicalSignificance |
evidence of complex urban settlement by early second millennium CE
ⓘ
major center of early West African art ⓘ |
| artMedium |
brass
ⓘ
copper alloy ⓘ terracotta ⓘ |
| artStyle | naturalistic portraiture ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Obatalá
ⓘ
surface form:
Obatala
Oduduwa ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| culturalRegion |
Western Nigeria
ⓘ
surface form:
Southwest geopolitical zone of Nigeria
|
| ethnicGroup | Yoruba people ⓘ |
| formerName |
Obafemi Awolowo University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Ife
|
| governance | traditional monarchy under the Ooni of Ife ⓘ |
| hasFestival |
Olojo Festival
ⓘ
surface form:
Ogun Festival
Olojo Festival ⓘ Oranmiyan Festival ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite | Ife archaeological sites ⓘ |
| hasInstitution | Obafemi Awolowo University ⓘ |
| hasMonument |
Opa Oranmiyan
ⓘ
Oranmiyan Staff ⓘ |
| hasMuseum |
Ife Museum
ⓘ
surface form:
Ife Museum of Antiquities
Ife Museum ⓘ
surface form:
National Museum, Ife
|
| hasRole |
cultural cradle of the Yoruba people
ⓘ
spiritual cradle of the Yoruba people ⓘ |
| higherEducationCenter | Obafemi Awolowo University campus ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Yoruba classical period ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Yoruba religion
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoruba mythology
early urban civilization ⓘ naturalistic brass heads ⓘ sophisticated early art ⓘ terracotta sculptures ⓘ |
| language |
Yoruba
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoruba language
|
| locatedIn |
Osun State
ⓘ
Western Nigeria ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern Nigeria
Western Nigeria ⓘ
surface form:
Yorubaland
|
| mythologicalStatus |
cradle of humanity in Yoruba cosmology
ⓘ
place where the world was created in Yoruba belief ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ooni of Ife
ⓘ
surface form:
Ooni of Ife traditional domain
|
| region | tropical savanna climate zone ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Yoruba religion ⓘ |
| traditionalRulerTitle | Ooni of Ife ⓘ |
| urbanStatus |
contemporary medium-sized Nigerian city
ⓘ
precolonial urban center ⓘ |
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: Ile-Ife Description of subject: Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ile-Ife archaeological complex
this entity surface form:
Ile-Ife traditional domain
this entity surface form:
Ife
this entity surface form:
Ife
this entity surface form:
Ife
this entity surface form:
Ife
this entity surface form:
Ile-Ife traditional domain
this entity surface form:
ancient city of Ife
this entity surface form:
Ife
this entity surface form:
Ile-Ife city-state