capital city
C21
concept
A capital city is the municipality designated as the official seat of a country's or region's government, typically hosting its central administrative, legislative, and often judicial institutions.
All labels observed (29)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| capital city canonical | 414 |
| provincial capital | 188 |
| state capital | 131 |
| former capital | 85 |
| regional capital | 54 |
| seat of legislature | 52 |
| seat of parliament | 24 |
| former national capital | 19 |
| national capital | 17 |
| U.S. state capital | 12 |
| administrative capital | 5 |
| federal city | 3 |
| Capital city | 2 |
| de facto capital | 2 |
| Cherokee capital | 1 |
| capital city in Azeroth | 1 |
| capital city title | 1 |
| capital city type | 1 |
| capital municipality | 1 |
| capital of Egypt | 1 |
| capital of France | 1 |
| capital of Gondor | 1 |
| legislative capital | 1 |
| national capitol | 1 |
| prefecture capital | 1 |
| столица | 1 |
| عاصمة إقليم | 1 |
| عاصمة وطنية | 1 |
| დედაქალაქი | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: capital city
Generated description
A capital city is the municipality designated as the official seat of a country's or region's government, typically hosting its central administrative, legislative, and often judicial institutions.
Instances (1,008)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
|
River City
surface form:
Wuhan
|
provincial capital |
| Ankara | national capital |
| Juba | — |
| N'Djamena | — |
| Mataram | provincial capital |
| Milan | regional capital |
| Valladolid | provincial capital |
| Rawson | provincial capital |
| Tskhinvali | — |
| Tunis | — |
| Gandhinagar | state capital |
| Sylhet | regional capital |
|
WA
surface form:
Warsaw
|
— |
| Bismarck, North Dakota | state capital |
| Madison, Wisconsin, United States | state capital |
| Capitol | — |
| Parliament House, Canberra | seat of parliament |
| Cardiff | — |
| Tripoli | — |
| Serang | provincial capital |
| Luanda | — |
| Kupang | provincial capital |
|
MUHA
surface form:
Havana
|
— |
| Pliska | former capital |
| Copenhagen | — |
| Athens | — |
|
Mauritania
surface form:
Nouakchott
|
— |
| Doha | — |
| Mogadishu | — |
| Nelspruit | regional capital |
| Senate of the Republic building | seat of parliament |
| Port Blair | — |
| Osogbo | state capital |
| al-Mansuriya | former capital |
| Fuzhou | provincial capital |
| Yaoundé | — |
| Parliament House, Cape Town | seat of legislature |
| Akure | state capital |
| Antananarivo | — |
| Parliament Buildings | seat of legislature |
| Naha | — |
| Budapest | — |
|
Mozambique
surface form:
Maputo
|
— |
| Nukuʻalofa | — |
| Port Vila | — |
| São Tomé | — |
| Kuwait City | — |
| Nouakchott | — |
| Chișinău | — |
| Kontum | provincial capital |