Sama Kota Belud
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Sama Kota Belud is a subgroup of the West Coast Bajau people of Sabah, Malaysia, known for their distinct Sama-Bajau language variety and coastal cultural traditions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bajau Kota Belud | 1 |
| Kota Belud Bajau | 1 |
| Sama Kota Belud canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7901294 — 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: Sama Kota Belud Context triple: [West Coast Bajau, alternativeName, Sama Kota Belud]
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A.
Tawau
Tawau is a coastal town and major economic hub in southeastern Sabah, Malaysia, known for its port, agriculture, and proximity to Indonesia.
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B.
Labuan
Labuan is a federal territory of Malaysia comprising a main island and several smaller ones, known as an offshore financial center and duty-free port off the coast of Borneo.
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C.
Labuan
Labuan is a coastal town in Banten, western Java, Indonesia, known as a gateway to nearby natural attractions and marine tourism areas.
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D.
Tenggarong
Tenggarong is a town in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, that serves as the capital of Kutai Kartanegara Regency and a cultural center of the historic Kutai region.
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E.
Lahad Datu
Lahad Datu is a coastal town and district on the east coast of Sabah, Malaysia, known as a gateway to nearby rainforest reserves and wildlife-rich conservation areas.
- 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: Sama Kota Belud Target entity description: Sama Kota Belud is a subgroup of the West Coast Bajau people of Sabah, Malaysia, known for their distinct Sama-Bajau language variety and coastal cultural traditions.
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A.
Tawau
Tawau is a coastal town and major economic hub in southeastern Sabah, Malaysia, known for its port, agriculture, and proximity to Indonesia.
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B.
Labuan
Labuan is a federal territory of Malaysia comprising a main island and several smaller ones, known as an offshore financial center and duty-free port off the coast of Borneo.
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C.
Labuan
Labuan is a coastal town in Banten, western Java, Indonesia, known as a gateway to nearby natural attractions and marine tourism areas.
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D.
Tenggarong
Tenggarong is a town in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, that serves as the capital of Kutai Kartanegara Regency and a cultural center of the historic Kutai region.
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E.
Lahad Datu
Lahad Datu is a coastal town and district on the east coast of Sabah, Malaysia, known as a gateway to nearby rainforest reserves and wildlife-rich conservation areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bajau subgroup
ⓘ
ethnic subgroup ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kota Belud district
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Coast Bajau identity ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | State of Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalTradition |
boat-related practices
ⓘ
coastal maritime traditions ⓘ fishing-based livelihood ⓘ |
| ethnicCategory | indigenous Austronesian people ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
Malaysia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnonym |
Bajau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicSetting | coastal areas ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractice |
oral traditions
ⓘ
sea-oriented lifestyle ⓘ traditional music and dance ⓘ |
| hasDistinct | Sama-Bajau language variety ⓘ |
| language | Sama Kota Belud variety ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Austronesian languages
ⓘ
Sama-Bajau languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kota Belud
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Coast Division, Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | indigenous peoples of Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West Coast of Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| subgroupOf |
Sama-Bajau peoples
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Coast Bajau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Sama Kota Belud Description of subject: Sama Kota Belud is a subgroup of the West Coast Bajau people of Sabah, Malaysia, known for their distinct Sama-Bajau language variety and coastal cultural traditions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bajau Kota Belud
this entity surface form:
Kota Belud Bajau