Garoua

E129704

Garoua is a major city in northern Cameroon that serves as an important commercial and administrative center and a key hub for river and overland transport in the region.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Garoua canonical 7

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
commune of Cameroon
administrativeDivisionOf North Region (Cameroon)
surface form: Northern Region, Cameroon
administrativeStatus regional capital
climate hot semi-arid climate
connectedByRoadTo Maroua
Ngaoundéré
Nigeria
country Cameroon
economicActivity livestock trade
trade in agricultural products
elevation about 249 metres above sea level
hasAirport Garoua International Airport
hasFacility international airport
river port
hasFootballClub Coton Sport FC de Garoua
hasIndustry cotton processing
food processing
textiles
hasPort river port on the Benue River
hasReligiousBuilding churches
mosques
hasRiverFeature navigable section of the Benue River
hasSport football
is major city in northern Cameroon
isRegionalCapitalOf North Region (Cameroon)
surface form: Northern Region, Cameroon
languageSpoken French
Fulfulde
locatedIn North Region (Cameroon)
surface form: Northern Region, Cameroon

north Cameroon
locatedInContinent Africa
locatedInSubregion Central Africa
locatedInTimeZone West Africa Time (WAT)
surface form: West Africa Time
locatedOnRiver Benue River
nearBorderWith Nigeria
regionServed Benue River
surface form: Benue River basin

North Region (Cameroon)
surface form: northern Cameroon
role administrative center
commercial center
transport hub
transportType overland transport
river transport
usedFor distribution of goods in northern Cameroon
export of cotton
utcOffset +1

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: Garoua
Description of subject: Garoua is a major city in northern Cameroon that serves as an important commercial and administrative center and a key hub for river and overland transport in the region.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Benue River flowsThrough Garoua
Cameroon majorCity Garoua
North Region capital Garoua
subject surface form: North Region (Cameroon)
North Region largestCity Garoua
subject surface form: North Region (Cameroon)
North Region containsCity Garoua
subject surface form: North Region (Cameroon)
North Region administrativeCentre Garoua
subject surface form: North Region (Cameroon)