Northern Samar
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Northern Samar is a province in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, known for its rugged coastlines, caves, and predominantly Waray-speaking population.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Northern Samar canonical | 59 |
| province of Northern Samar | 5 |
| Lone district of Northern Samar | 1 |
| Northern Samar Waray | 1 |
| Province of Northern Samar | 1 |
| Provincial Government of Northern Samar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T517349 — 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: Northern Samar Context triple: [Waray language, spokenIn, Northern Samar]
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A.
Negros Oriental
Negros Oriental is a province in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines, known for its coastal cities, diverse marine life, and use of Cebuano as a major local language.
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B.
Negros Occidental
Negros Occidental is a province in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, known for its sugarcane industry, rich cultural heritage, and vibrant Hiligaynon-speaking population.
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C.
Eastern Visayas
Eastern Visayas is an administrative region in the central Philippines known for its Waray-Waray and Cebuano-speaking population, coastal provinces, and vulnerability to powerful typhoons such as Haiyan.
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D.
Caraga
Caraga is an administrative region in northeastern Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its rich natural resources, coastal landscapes, and significant Cebuano-speaking population.
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E.
Guimaras
Guimaras is a small island province in the Philippines known for its mango production, coastal scenery, and predominantly Hiligaynon-speaking population.
- 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: Northern Samar Target entity description: Northern Samar is a province in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, known for its rugged coastlines, caves, and predominantly Waray-speaking population.
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A.
Negros Oriental
Negros Oriental is a province in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines, known for its coastal cities, diverse marine life, and use of Cebuano as a major local language.
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B.
Negros Occidental
Negros Occidental is a province in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, known for its sugarcane industry, rich cultural heritage, and vibrant Hiligaynon-speaking population.
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C.
Eastern Visayas
Eastern Visayas is an administrative region in the central Philippines known for its Waray-Waray and Cebuano-speaking population, coastal provinces, and vulnerability to powerful typhoons such as Haiyan.
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D.
Caraga
Caraga is an administrative region in northeastern Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its rich natural resources, coastal landscapes, and significant Cebuano-speaking population.
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E.
Guimaras
Guimaras is a small island province in the Philippines known for its mango production, coastal scenery, and predominantly Hiligaynon-speaking population.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: Northern Samar Description of subject: Northern Samar is a province in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, known for its rugged coastlines, caves, and predominantly Waray-speaking population.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Northern Samar Waray
this entity surface form:
Provincial Government of Northern Samar
this entity surface form:
Province of Northern Samar
this entity surface form:
Lone district of Northern Samar
subject surface form:
San Isidro, Northern Samar