Nova Lisboa
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Nova Lisboa was the former colonial name of the Angolan city now known as Huambo, an important inland urban and economic center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nova Lisboa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11058933 — 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: Nova Lisboa Context triple: [Huambo, originalName, Nova Lisboa]
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A.
Lux Lisbon
Lux Lisbon is a rebellious and enigmatic teenage girl whose tragic story and inner turmoil are central to the haunting atmosphere of *The Virgin Suicides*.
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B.
Urbanos de Lisboa
Urbanos de Lisboa is the suburban rail service network operated in the Lisbon metropolitan area, providing frequent commuter train connections for the Portuguese railway company Comboios de Portugal.
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C.
New Lisbon
New Lisbon is a small town located in Otsego County in central New York State, known for its rural character and scenic countryside.
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D.
Urbanos do Porto
Urbanos do Porto is a suburban rail service network in the Porto metropolitan area of Portugal, operated under the national railway company Comboios de Portugal.
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E.
City of Lisbon
The City of Lisbon is the municipal government authority responsible for administering and providing local services to the community of Lisbon, Iowa.
- 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: Nova Lisboa Target entity description: Nova Lisboa was the former colonial name of the Angolan city now known as Huambo, an important inland urban and economic center.
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A.
Lux Lisbon
Lux Lisbon is a rebellious and enigmatic teenage girl whose tragic story and inner turmoil are central to the haunting atmosphere of *The Virgin Suicides*.
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B.
Urbanos de Lisboa
Urbanos de Lisboa is the suburban rail service network operated in the Lisbon metropolitan area, providing frequent commuter train connections for the Portuguese railway company Comboios de Portugal.
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C.
New Lisbon
New Lisbon is a small town located in Otsego County in central New York State, known for its rural character and scenic countryside.
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D.
Urbanos do Porto
Urbanos do Porto is a suburban rail service network in the Porto metropolitan area of Portugal, operated under the national railway company Comboios de Portugal.
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E.
City of Lisbon
The City of Lisbon is the municipal government authority responsible for administering and providing local services to the community of Lisbon, Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial city name
ⓘ
former name of city ⓘ |
| climate | mild highland climate ⓘ |
| colonialPower | Portugal ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country |
Portuguese Angola
ⓘ
linked to:
Angola
|
| currentName | Huambo ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 1700 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| formerAdministrativeStatus | major city of Portuguese Angola ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorAdministrativeEntity | Huambo ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Portuguese colonial period in Angola ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Portuguese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Angola
ⓘ
Central Highlands of Angola ⓘ
linked to:
central highlands of Angola
|
| locatedOn | Benguela Railway ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lisbon ⓘ |
| partOf | Ovimbundu region ⓘ |
| region | Huambo Province ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Huambo ⓘ |
| role |
economic center
ⓘ
important inland urban center ⓘ |
| status | historical toponym ⓘ |
| urbanFunction |
commercial center
ⓘ
transport hub ⓘ |
| usedAsNameUntil | 1975 ⓘ |
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: Nova Lisboa Description of subject: Nova Lisboa was the former colonial name of the Angolan city now known as Huambo, an important inland urban and economic center.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.