Koutiala Cercle
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Koutiala Cercle is an administrative subdivision in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali, centered on the town of Koutiala and known for its agricultural and cotton-producing activities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koutiala Cercle canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8635947 — 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: Koutiala Cercle Context triple: [Koutiala, administrativeDivisionOf, Koutiala Cercle]
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A.
Annaba District
Annaba District is an administrative district in northeastern Algeria centered on the coastal city of Annaba, a major Mediterranean port and industrial hub.
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B.
Kidal Region
Kidal Region is a sparsely populated, desert area in northeastern Mali that has been a focal point of Tuareg rebellions, Islamist insurgency, and French military intervention.
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C.
Khenchela Province
Khenchela Province is a mountainous region in northeastern Algeria known as a cultural heartland of the Shawiya (Chaoui) Amazigh people.
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D.
Annaba Province
Annaba Province is an administrative region in northeastern Algeria, centered around the coastal city of Annaba and known for its Mediterranean shoreline and industrial activities.
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E.
Kayes Region
Kayes Region is a large administrative region in western Mali known for its hot climate, mining activities, and position along key transport routes linking Mali to Senegal.
- 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: Koutiala Cercle Target entity description: Koutiala Cercle is an administrative subdivision in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali, centered on the town of Koutiala and known for its agricultural and cotton-producing activities.
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A.
Annaba District
Annaba District is an administrative district in northeastern Algeria centered on the coastal city of Annaba, a major Mediterranean port and industrial hub.
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B.
Kidal Region
Kidal Region is a sparsely populated, desert area in northeastern Mali that has been a focal point of Tuareg rebellions, Islamist insurgency, and French military intervention.
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C.
Khenchela Province
Khenchela Province is a mountainous region in northeastern Algeria known as a cultural heartland of the Shawiya (Chaoui) Amazigh people.
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D.
Annaba Province
Annaba Province is an administrative region in northeastern Algeria, centered around the coastal city of Annaba and known for its Mediterranean shoreline and industrial activities.
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E.
Kayes Region
Kayes Region is a large administrative region in western Mali known for its hot climate, mining activities, and position along key transport routes linking Mali to Senegal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cercle of Mali ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Koutiala ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf | Mali ⓘ |
| administrativeHierarchyLevel | second-level administrative division of Mali ⓘ |
| borderedBy | other cercles of Sikasso Region ⓘ |
| capital | Koutiala ⓘ |
| containsSettlement | Koutiala ⓘ |
| country | Mali ⓘ |
| governmentType | local government unit ⓘ |
| hasAgriculturalActivity |
cereal cultivation
ⓘ
cotton farming ⓘ livestock rearing ⓘ |
| ISO3166-1Alpha2CountryCode | ML ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agriculture
ⓘ
cotton production ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Bambara
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Sikasso Region
ⓘ
southern Mali ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| partOf | Sikasso Region ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | cercle ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Greenwich Mean Time
ⓘ
UTC+0 ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | West African CFA franc ⓘ |
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: Koutiala Cercle Description of subject: Koutiala Cercle is an administrative subdivision in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali, centered on the town of Koutiala and known for its agricultural and cotton-producing activities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.