Trowulan
E71241
Trowulan is an archaeological site in East Java, Indonesia, believed to be the former royal city and cultural center of the Majapahit Empire.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trowulan canonical | 28 |
| Trowulan archaeological site | 5 |
| Trowulan Museum | 4 |
| Trowulan archaeological area | 2 |
| Trowulan Archaeological Site | 1 |
| Trowulan Majapahit capital area | 1 |
| Trowulan archaeological landscape | 1 |
| Trowulan area | 1 |
| Trowulan area (Majapahit capital) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T569151 — 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: Trowulan Context triple: [Majapahit Empire, capital, Trowulan]
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A.
Cumae
Cumae was an ancient Greek colony in Italy, renowned as one of the earliest Hellenic settlements in the West and famous for its oracle, the Cumaean Sibyl.
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B.
Hatra
Hatra is an ancient fortified city in northern Iraq, renowned for its well-preserved blend of Hellenistic and Parthian architecture and its role as a major religious and trading center in the early centuries CE.
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C.
Plain of Jars
The Plain of Jars is a mysterious megalithic archaeological landscape in central Laos, scattered with thousands of large stone jars whose origins and purpose remain uncertain.
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D.
Kadmat
Kadmat is a coral island in India’s Lakshadweep archipelago, known for its white-sand beaches, clear lagoons, and vibrant marine life that make it a popular destination for snorkeling and diving.
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E.
Khami Ruins
Khami Ruins is an archaeological site in southwestern Zimbabwe featuring the stone-built remains of a precolonial African city that succeeded Great Zimbabwe as a major political and trading center.
- 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: Trowulan Target entity description: Trowulan is an archaeological site in East Java, Indonesia, believed to be the former royal city and cultural center of the Majapahit Empire.
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A.
Cumae
Cumae was an ancient Greek colony in Italy, renowned as one of the earliest Hellenic settlements in the West and famous for its oracle, the Cumaean Sibyl.
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B.
Hatra
Hatra is an ancient fortified city in northern Iraq, renowned for its well-preserved blend of Hellenistic and Parthian architecture and its role as a major religious and trading center in the early centuries CE.
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C.
Plain of Jars
The Plain of Jars is a mysterious megalithic archaeological landscape in central Laos, scattered with thousands of large stone jars whose origins and purpose remain uncertain.
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D.
Kadmat
Kadmat is a coral island in India’s Lakshadweep archipelago, known for its white-sand beaches, clear lagoons, and vibrant marine life that make it a popular destination for snorkeling and diving.
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E.
Khami Ruins
Khami Ruins is an archaeological site in southwestern Zimbabwe featuring the stone-built remains of a precolonial African city that succeeded Great Zimbabwe as a major political and trading center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
ⓘ
historical city ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Javanese Hindu-Buddhist civilization
ⓘ
Majapahit Empire ⓘ |
| contains |
Bajang Ratu Gate
ⓘ
Candi Tikus ⓘ Segaran Pool ⓘ Trowulan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Trowulan Museum
Wringin Lawang Gate ⓘ brick pavements ⓘ residential remains ⓘ temple ruins ⓘ water management structures ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| culturalAffiliation | Javanese ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | European scholars in the 19th century ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Dutch archaeologists
ⓘ
Indonesian archaeologists ⓘ |
| flourishedDuring |
reign of Gajah Mada
ⓘ
reign of Hayam Wuruk ⓘ |
| formerRole |
cultural center of the Majapahit Empire
ⓘ
royal capital of the Majapahit Empire ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
canal system
ⓘ
large artificial pool ⓘ urban planning ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | red brick ⓘ |
| hasMuseum |
Trowulan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Trowulan Museum
|
| heritageDesignation |
National cultural heritage of Indonesia
ⓘ
surface form:
National Cultural Heritage of Indonesia
UNESCO World Heritage tentative list ⓘ
surface form:
UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List
|
| heritageStatus | Tentative UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| languageOfInscriptions |
Kawi (Old Javanese)
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Javanese
Sanskrit ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Java
ⓘ
Java ⓘ Mojokerto ⓘ
surface form:
Mojokerto Regency
Trowulan District ⓘ |
| near |
Jombang
ⓘ
Mojokerto ⓘ |
| partOf | Majapahit Empire ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
administrative center
ⓘ
economic center ⓘ political center ⓘ religious center ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Hindu-Buddhist ⓘ |
| significance | largest known archaeological site of a classical Indonesian capital ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
14th century
ⓘ
15th century ⓘ |
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: Trowulan Description of subject: Trowulan is an archaeological site in East Java, Indonesia, believed to be the former royal city and cultural center of the Majapahit Empire.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Trowulan archaeological area
this entity surface form:
Trowulan Museum
this entity surface form:
Trowulan archaeological site
this entity surface form:
Trowulan Archaeological Site
this entity surface form:
Trowulan archaeological area
this entity surface form:
Trowulan archaeological site
this entity surface form:
Trowulan Museum
this entity surface form:
Trowulan archaeological site
this entity surface form:
Trowulan archaeological site
this entity surface form:
Trowulan Majapahit capital area
this entity surface form:
Trowulan archaeological landscape
this entity surface form:
Trowulan area
this entity surface form:
Trowulan area (Majapahit capital)
this entity surface form:
Trowulan archaeological site
this entity surface form:
Trowulan Museum