Tula
E111344
Tula is a historic Russian city south of Moscow, known for its metalworking, samovar production, and as a cultural center near Leo Tolstoy’s estate at Yasnaya Polyana.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tula canonical | 22 |
| city of Tula | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T860351 — 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: Tula Context triple: [Yasnaya Polyana, locatedNear, Tula]
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A.
Solan
Solan is a town in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh known for its mushroom cultivation and as a growing commercial and educational hub in the region.
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B.
Ciudad Serdán
Ciudad Serdán is a town in the Mexican state of Puebla, known as a gateway community to the nearby Pico de Orizaba volcano and surrounding highland region.
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C.
Tacuba
Tacuba is a historic neighborhood in Mexico City known for its colonial-era architecture and role as a former pre-Hispanic town.
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D.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a city in San Mateo County, California, located on the San Francisco Peninsula between Belmont and Redwood City.
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E.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a Nicaraguan town that serves as a key river and lake port near the southeastern end of Lake Nicaragua.
- 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: Tula Target entity description: Tula is a historic Russian city south of Moscow, known for its metalworking, samovar production, and as a cultural center near Leo Tolstoy’s estate at Yasnaya Polyana.
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A.
Solan
Solan is a town in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh known for its mushroom cultivation and as a growing commercial and educational hub in the region.
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B.
Ciudad Serdán
Ciudad Serdán is a town in the Mexican state of Puebla, known as a gateway community to the nearby Pico de Orizaba volcano and surrounding highland region.
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C.
Tacuba
Tacuba is a historic neighborhood in Mexico City known for its colonial-era architecture and role as a former pre-Hispanic town.
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D.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a city in San Mateo County, California, located on the San Francisco Peninsula between Belmont and Redwood City.
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E.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a Nicaraguan town that serves as a key river and lake port near the southeastern end of Lake Nicaragua.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative center
ⓘ
city ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| coordinateLatitude | 54.1961 N ⓘ |
| coordinateLongitude | 37.6188 E ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Leo Tolstoy ⓘ |
| distanceFromMoscow | approximately 180 km ⓘ |
| economicSector |
chemical industry
ⓘ
engineering ⓘ metallurgy ⓘ |
| firstMentioned | 1146 ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 12th century ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Central Park of Culture and Leisure
ⓘ
Epiphany Cathedral ⓘ Tula Kremlin ⓘ Uspensky Cathedral (Assumption Cathedral) ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Tula State Pedagogical University
ⓘ
Tula State University ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | historic city ⓘ |
| hasMuseum |
Bread Museum
ⓘ
surface form:
Tula Gingerbread Museum
Tula Samovar Museum ⓘ Tula Arsenal ⓘ
surface form:
Tula State Museum of Weapons
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| hasPopulationApprox | over 450000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown |
Akko
ⓘ
Albino ⓘ Brest (Belarus) ⓘ
surface form:
Brest
Buffalo ⓘ Kutaisi ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
defense against Crimean Tatar raids
ⓘ
role in Time of Troubles ⓘ |
| historicalRole | fortress city on southern approaches to Moscow ⓘ |
| isCapitalOf | Tula Oblast ⓘ |
| knownFor |
arms manufacturing
ⓘ
cultural heritage ⓘ defense industry ⓘ gingerbread (Tula pryanik) ⓘ machine-building industry ⓘ metalworking ⓘ samovar production ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Federal District
ⓘ
Tula Oblast ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Upa River ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Moscow ⓘ |
| near | Yasnaya Polyana ⓘ |
| partOf |
Russia
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Federation
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| timeZone |
Moscow Time
ⓘ
surface form:
Moscow Time (UTC+3)
|
| transportRole |
highway hub
ⓘ
railway junction ⓘ |
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: Tula Description of subject: Tula is a historic Russian city south of Moscow, known for its metalworking, samovar production, and as a cultural center near Leo Tolstoy’s estate at Yasnaya Polyana.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
city of Tula