Selangau
E1138328
UNEXPLORED
Selangau is a small town in Sarawak, Malaysia, situated along the Pan Borneo Highway and serving as a local commercial and transit center between Sibu and Bintulu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Selangau canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15120511 — 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: Selangau Context triple: [Sibu Division, containsTown, Selangau]
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A.
Batu Sawar
Batu Sawar was a historically significant town in present-day Malaysia that served as an early political and administrative center of the Johor Sultanate after the fall of Malacca.
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B.
Pangcah
Pangcah is the self-designation of the Amis, one of the largest Indigenous Austronesian peoples of Taiwan, known for their distinct language and rich cultural traditions.
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C.
Dungun
Dungun is a coastal town in the state of Terengganu, Malaysia, known historically for fishing and nearby iron ore mining activities.
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D.
Bantia
Bantia was an ancient Oscan-speaking city in southern Italy, notable for yielding important inscriptions that illuminate the Oscan language and Italic legal traditions.
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E.
Bachok
Bachok is a coastal town and district in the Malaysian state of Kelantan, known for its beaches and traditional Malay fishing villages.
- 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: Selangau Target entity description: Selangau is a small town in Sarawak, Malaysia, situated along the Pan Borneo Highway and serving as a local commercial and transit center between Sibu and Bintulu.
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A.
Batu Sawar
Batu Sawar was a historically significant town in present-day Malaysia that served as an early political and administrative center of the Johor Sultanate after the fall of Malacca.
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B.
Pangcah
Pangcah is the self-designation of the Amis, one of the largest Indigenous Austronesian peoples of Taiwan, known for their distinct language and rich cultural traditions.
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C.
Dungun
Dungun is a coastal town in the state of Terengganu, Malaysia, known historically for fishing and nearby iron ore mining activities.
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D.
Bantia
Bantia was an ancient Oscan-speaking city in southern Italy, notable for yielding important inscriptions that illuminate the Oscan language and Italic legal traditions.
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E.
Bachok
Bachok is a coastal town and district in the Malaysian state of Kelantan, known for its beaches and traditional Malay fishing villages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.