Bobo-Dioulasso Department
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Bobo-Dioulasso Department is an administrative division in southwestern Burkina Faso that encompasses the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, one of the country’s largest urban centers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobo-Dioulasso Department canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10300069 — 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: Bobo-Dioulasso Department Context triple: [Bobo-Dioulasso, locatedInDepartment, Bobo-Dioulasso Department]
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A.
Pikine Department
Pikine Department is an administrative division in western Senegal that forms part of the greater Dakar metropolitan area and includes densely populated urban and suburban communities.
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B.
Dakar Department
Dakar Department is an administrative division in western Senegal that encompasses the nation’s capital city and serves as its primary political and economic hub.
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C.
Ouest Department
Ouest Department is an administrative region in western Haiti that includes the capital city, Port-au-Prince, and serves as the country’s political and economic center.
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D.
Guédiawaye Department
Guédiawaye Department is an administrative division in western Senegal that forms part of the greater Dakar metropolitan area.
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E.
Ouémé Department
Ouémé Department is an administrative region in southeastern Benin that includes the national capital, Porto-Novo, and is known for its role as a political and economic hub.
- 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: Bobo-Dioulasso Department Target entity description: Bobo-Dioulasso Department is an administrative division in southwestern Burkina Faso that encompasses the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, one of the country’s largest urban centers.
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A.
Pikine Department
Pikine Department is an administrative division in western Senegal that forms part of the greater Dakar metropolitan area and includes densely populated urban and suburban communities.
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B.
Dakar Department
Dakar Department is an administrative division in western Senegal that encompasses the nation’s capital city and serves as its primary political and economic hub.
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C.
Ouest Department
Ouest Department is an administrative region in western Haiti that includes the capital city, Port-au-Prince, and serves as the country’s political and economic center.
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D.
Guédiawaye Department
Guédiawaye Department is an administrative division in western Senegal that forms part of the greater Dakar metropolitan area.
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E.
Ouémé Department
Ouémé Department is an administrative region in southeastern Benin that includes the national capital, Porto-Novo, and is known for its role as a political and economic hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | department of Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Bobo-Dioulasso ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | department ⓘ |
| capital | Bobo-Dioulasso ⓘ |
| contains |
Bobo-Dioulasso
ⓘ
city of Bobo-Dioulasso ⓘ
linked to:
Bobo-Dioulasso
|
| country | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| governmentType | local administration ⓘ |
| hasLargestCity | Bobo-Dioulasso ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType |
commune
ⓘ
department ⓘ |
| hasUrbanCenter | Bobo-Dioulasso ⓘ |
| ISO3166-1Alpha2CountryCode | BF ⓘ |
| languageUsed | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hauts-Bassins Region
ⓘ
southwestern Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| locatedInCountryRegion | southwestern Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| partOf |
Burkina Faso administrative division system
ⓘ
Hauts-Bassins Region ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| 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: Bobo-Dioulasso Department Description of subject: Bobo-Dioulasso Department is an administrative division in southwestern Burkina Faso that encompasses the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, one of the country’s largest urban centers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.