Juda
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Juda is the historical name of Ouidah, a coastal city in present-day Benin that was a major center of the transatlantic slave trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Juda canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7534327 — 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: Juda Context triple: [Ouidah, formerName, Juda]
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A.
Yehudi
Yehudi is a masculine given name most famously associated with the renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
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B.
יוד
יוד הוא האות העשירית באלפבית העברי, המשמשת גם כסימן מספרי וכמרכיב מרכזי בכתיבה ובמסורת היהודית.
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C.
Samaria
Samaria is a historical region in the central highlands of ancient Israel and the West Bank, known as the capital area of the northern Kingdom of Israel and a significant biblical and archaeological site.
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D.
Jarudiya
Jarudiya is an early sub-sect of Zaydi Shia Islam known for its distinctive views on the rightful succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the qualifications of the Imam.
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E.
Rehavia
Rehavia is a historic, centrally located Jerusalem neighborhood known for its leafy streets, Bauhaus-style architecture, and mix of intellectual, political, and cultural residents.
- 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: Juda Target entity description: Juda is the historical name of Ouidah, a coastal city in present-day Benin that was a major center of the transatlantic slave trade.
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A.
Yehudi
Yehudi is a masculine given name most famously associated with the renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
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B.
יוד
יוד הוא האות העשירית באלפבית העברי, המשמשת גם כסימן מספרי וכמרכיב מרכזי בכתיבה ובמסורת היהודית.
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C.
Samaria
Samaria is a historical region in the central highlands of ancient Israel and the West Bank, known as the capital area of the northern Kingdom of Israel and a significant biblical and archaeological site.
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D.
Jarudiya
Jarudiya is an early sub-sect of Zaydi Shia Islam known for its distinctive views on the rightful succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the qualifications of the Imam.
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E.
Rehavia
Rehavia is a historic, centrally located Jerusalem neighborhood known for its leafy streets, Bauhaus-style architecture, and mix of intellectual, political, and cultural residents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former city name
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historical place name ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ajuda
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Ajudá ⓘ Fida ⓘ Hueda ⓘ Whydah ⓘ |
| appliedTo | coastal city ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kingdom of Dahomey
ⓘ
Kingdom of Hueda ⓘ |
| colonialAssociation |
French sphere of influence
ⓘ
Portuguese sphere of influence ⓘ |
| countryToday | Benin ⓘ |
| culturalLegacy | Afro-Brazilian heritage in Ouidah ⓘ |
| exported | enslaved Africans ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
17th century
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18th century ⓘ early 19th century ⓘ |
| historicalRole | major center of the transatlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| languageOrigin | European exonym for Hueda/Ouidah ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Americas
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Brazilian slave trade ⓘ Caribbean slave trade ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
West Africa
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present-day Benin ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Gulf of Guinea ⓘ |
| memorializationAt |
Door of No Return monument in Ouidah
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linked to:
Door of No Return monument
Ouidah Route des Esclaves ⓘ |
| modernName | Ouidah ⓘ |
| portFunction | slave-trading port ⓘ |
| refersTo | Ouidah ⓘ |
| regionToday | Atlantique Department ⓘ |
| religiousLegacy | Vodun traditions in Ouidah ⓘ |
| replacedBy | official name Ouidah ⓘ |
| significance | key node in Atlantic slave routes ⓘ |
| status | obsolete toponym ⓘ |
| tradePartners |
British traders
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Dutch traders ⓘ European slave traders ⓘ French traders ⓘ Portuguese traders ⓘ |
| usedBy | European traders and chroniclers ⓘ |
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: Juda Description of subject: Juda is the historical name of Ouidah, a coastal city in present-day Benin that was a major center of the transatlantic slave trade.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.