Cape Coast Castle
E113563
Cape Coast Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that served as one of the largest centers of British transatlantic slave trade in West Africa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cape Coast Castle canonical | 13 |
| Cape Coast Castle Museum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T964863 — 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: Cape Coast Castle Context triple: [Royal African Company, notableFort, Cape Coast Castle]
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A.
Elmina Castle
Elmina Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that became one of the most significant hubs of the transatlantic slave trade.
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B.
Belém Tower
Belém Tower is a 16th-century fortified tower in Lisbon, Portugal, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned as a symbol of the Age of Discoveries.
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C.
Vieux Fort
Vieux Fort is a major town in the south of Saint Lucia, known for its international airport, coastal location, and role as a commercial and transportation hub.
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D.
Gorée Island
Gorée Island is a small island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, historically known as a major center of the Atlantic slave trade and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Fort St. George
Fort St. George is a historic coastal fortress in Chennai, India, that served as the British East India Company’s first major stronghold and a key center of colonial administration in South India.
- 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: Cape Coast Castle Target entity description: Cape Coast Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that served as one of the largest centers of British transatlantic slave trade in West Africa.
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A.
Elmina Castle
Elmina Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that became one of the most significant hubs of the transatlantic slave trade.
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B.
Belém Tower
Belém Tower is a 16th-century fortified tower in Lisbon, Portugal, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned as a symbol of the Age of Discoveries.
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C.
Vieux Fort
Vieux Fort is a major town in the south of Saint Lucia, known for its international airport, coastal location, and role as a commercial and transportation hub.
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D.
Gorée Island
Gorée Island is a small island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, historically known as a major center of the Atlantic slave trade and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Fort St. George
Fort St. George is a historic coastal fortress in Chennai, India, that served as the British East India Company’s first major stronghold and a key center of colonial administration in South India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Cape Coast Castle Description of subject: Cape Coast Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that served as one of the largest centers of British transatlantic slave trade in West Africa.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cape Coast Castle Museum
subject surface form:
Royal African Company
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
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