South Sulawesi
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South Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi, known for its capital Makassar, diverse ethnic groups such as the Bugis and Makassarese, and a long history of maritime trade.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| South Sulawesi canonical | 106 |
| South Sulawesi Province | 29 |
| Province of South Sulawesi | 2 |
| eastern South Sulawesi | 2 |
| southern Sulawesi | 2 |
| Islam in South Sulawesi | 1 |
| Makassar region | 1 |
| South Sulawesi Peninsula | 1 |
| South Sulawesi cultural sphere | 1 |
| South Sulawesi region | 1 |
| northern South Sulawesi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T629954 — 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: South Sulawesi Context triple: [Celebes, hasPart, South Sulawesi]
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A.
North Sulawesi
North Sulawesi is a province in the northern part of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, known for its rich marine biodiversity, volcanic landscapes, and diverse cultures.
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B.
Central Sulawesi
Central Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia located in the central part of the island of Sulawesi, known for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich biodiversity.
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C.
Riau Islands
The Riau Islands are an Indonesian archipelago in the South China Sea known for their strategic location near Singapore and Malaysia, maritime trade routes, and growing tourism industry.
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D.
Celebes
Celebes, now known as Sulawesi, is a large, uniquely shaped island in Indonesia renowned for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich marine biodiversity.
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E.
Nusa Tenggara
Nusa Tenggara is a chain of islands in southeastern Indonesia known for its diverse cultures, volcanic landscapes, and popular tourist destinations such as Lombok and Flores.
- 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: South Sulawesi Target entity description: South Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi, known for its capital Makassar, diverse ethnic groups such as the Bugis and Makassarese, and a long history of maritime trade.
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A.
North Sulawesi
North Sulawesi is a province in the northern part of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, known for its rich marine biodiversity, volcanic landscapes, and diverse cultures.
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B.
Central Sulawesi
Central Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia located in the central part of the island of Sulawesi, known for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich biodiversity.
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C.
Riau Islands
The Riau Islands are an Indonesian archipelago in the South China Sea known for their strategic location near Singapore and Malaysia, maritime trade routes, and growing tourism industry.
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D.
Celebes
Celebes, now known as Sulawesi, is a large, uniquely shaped island in Indonesia renowned for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich marine biodiversity.
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E.
Nusa Tenggara
Nusa Tenggara is a chain of islands in southeastern Indonesia known for its diverse cultures, volcanic landscapes, and popular tourist destinations such as Lombok and Flores.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
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: South Sulawesi Description of subject: South Sulawesi is a province of Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi, known for its capital Makassar, diverse ethnic groups such as the Bugis and Makassarese, and a long history of maritime trade.
Referenced by (147)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Province of South Sulawesi
this entity surface form:
Province of South Sulawesi
this entity surface form:
Islam in South Sulawesi
this entity surface form:
South Sulawesi Province
this entity surface form:
eastern South Sulawesi
this entity surface form:
South Sulawesi Province
this entity surface form:
South Sulawesi Province
this entity surface form:
South Sulawesi Province
this entity surface form:
South Sulawesi Province
this entity surface form:
Makassar region
this entity surface form:
South Sulawesi Province