North Sumatra
E92507
North Sumatra is a populous province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, known for its diverse cultures, Lake Toba, and the city of Medan as its capital.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Sumatra canonical | 54 |
| North Sumatra Province | 7 |
| Northern Sumatra | 3 |
| northern Sumatra | 3 |
| Province of North Sumatra | 2 |
| North Sumatra region | 1 |
| Sumatera Utara | 1 |
| western Sumatra | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T730811 — 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: North Sumatra Context triple: [Sumatra, dividedInto, North Sumatra]
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A.
Sumatra
Sumatra is a large Indonesian island in western Indonesia known for its rich biodiversity, active volcanoes, and significant role in regional trade and history.
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B.
Aceh
Aceh is a special autonomous province at the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, known for its distinct Islamic heritage and historical role as a major trading center.
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C.
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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D.
Kalimantan
Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, known for its vast rainforests, rich biodiversity, and significant natural resources.
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E.
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.
- 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: North Sumatra Target entity description: North Sumatra is a populous province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, known for its diverse cultures, Lake Toba, and the city of Medan as its capital.
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A.
Sumatra
Sumatra is a large Indonesian island in western Indonesia known for its rich biodiversity, active volcanoes, and significant role in regional trade and history.
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B.
Aceh
Aceh is a special autonomous province at the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, known for its distinct Islamic heritage and historical role as a major trading center.
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C.
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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D.
Kalimantan
Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, known for its vast rainforests, rich biodiversity, and significant natural resources.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: North Sumatra Description of subject: North Sumatra is a populous province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, known for its diverse cultures, Lake Toba, and the city of Medan as its capital.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
North Sumatra Province
subject surface form:
Taganing
this entity surface form:
North Sumatra Province
this entity surface form:
northern Sumatra
subject surface form:
Western Indonesia
this entity surface form:
North Sumatra region
this entity surface form:
Northern Sumatra
this entity surface form:
Northern Sumatra
this entity surface form:
Northern Sumatra
this entity surface form:
Province of North Sumatra