Meis
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Meis is the Turkish name for Kastellorizo, a small Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean near the Turkish coast.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8133902 — 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: Meis Context triple: [Kastellorizo, alsoKnownAs, Meis]
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A.
Minin
Minin is a Russian surname most famously borne by Kuzma Minin, a merchant from Nizhny Novgorod who became a national hero for organizing resistance against Polish invaders in the early 17th century.
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B.
Meleys
Meleys is a fearsome red she-dragon from George R.R. Martin’s "A Song of Ice and Fire" universe, famed for her speed and ridden in the Dance of the Dragons by Princess Rhaenys Targaryen.
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C.
Meent
Meent is a tram stop on Amsterdam’s Amstelveenlijn serving the residential area of Amstelveen in the Netherlands.
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D.
Mille
Mille is a French surname most notably borne by individuals such as Stéphane Mille.
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E.
Meyr
Meyr is a surname variant of Meier, a common German family name with roots in occupational and administrative titles.
- 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: Meis Target entity description: Meis is the Turkish name for Kastellorizo, a small Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean near the Turkish coast.
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A.
Minin
Minin is a Russian surname most famously borne by Kuzma Minin, a merchant from Nizhny Novgorod who became a national hero for organizing resistance against Polish invaders in the early 17th century.
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B.
Meleys
Meleys is a fearsome red she-dragon from George R.R. Martin’s "A Song of Ice and Fire" universe, famed for her speed and ridden in the Dance of the Dragons by Princess Rhaenys Targaryen.
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C.
Meent
Meent is a tram stop on Amsterdam’s Amstelveenlijn serving the residential area of Amstelveen in the Netherlands.
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D.
Mille
Mille is a French surname most notably borne by individuals such as Stéphane Mille.
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E.
Meyr
Meyr is a surname variant of Meier, a common German family name with roots in occupational and administrative titles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
island
ⓘ
populated place ⓘ |
| area_km2 | about 9 ⓘ |
| bodyOfWater | Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderContext | close to Greece–Turkey maritime boundary ⓘ |
| capital | Kastellorizo town NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| distanceToRhodes_km | about 125 ⓘ |
| distanceToTurkishCoast_km | about 2 ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Kastellorizo Island Public Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFerryConnectionTo |
Kaş (Turkey)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rhodes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocalName |
Kastellorizo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kastellórizo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Megisti (Greek)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Meis (Turkish) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
Blue Cave (sea cave)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Byzantine and medieval fortifications ⓘ colorful waterfront houses ⓘ natural harbor ⓘ |
| hasPort | Kastellorizo port NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlement | Kastellorizo town NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highestPoint_m | about 273 ⓘ |
| ISOCode | GR-81 (Dodecanese regional unit) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Greek
ⓘ
Turkish (by some visitors and locals) ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Rhodes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dodecanese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Aegean administrative region NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Antalya Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kaş (Turkey) NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish coast ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Dodecanese island group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | a few hundred inhabitants ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| religion | Greek Orthodox Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sovereignState | Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | affects Greece–Turkey maritime zones in eastern Mediterranean ⓘ |
| timezone | Eastern European Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timezoneDST | Eastern European Summer Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transferredTo | Greece in 1947 ⓘ |
| usedToBePartOf |
Italian Islands of the Aegean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Meis Description of subject: Meis is the Turkish name for Kastellorizo, a small Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean near the Turkish coast.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.