Dakar
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Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal, located on the Atlantic coast and serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub of West Africa.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dakar canonical | 141 |
| Dakar, Senegal | 7 |
| Dakar metropolitan area | 3 |
| Dakar city center | 2 |
| City of Dakar | 1 |
| Dakar city | 1 |
| Medina, Dakar | 1 |
| Muslim community of Dakar | 1 |
| Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal | 1 |
| Port of Dakar | 1 |
| Thiès | 1 |
| city of Dakar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T118218 — 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: Dakar Context triple: [Strasbourg, twinCity, Dakar]
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A.
Nouakchott
Nouakchott is the capital and largest city of Mauritania, located on the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa.
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B.
Algiers
Algiers is the capital and largest city of Algeria, a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
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C.
Rabat
Rabat is the capital city of Morocco, located on the Atlantic coast and known for its historic medina, coastal fortifications, and role as a political and administrative center.
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D.
Luanda
Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
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E.
Mogadishu
Mogadishu is the capital and largest city of Somalia, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Horn of Africa.
- 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: Dakar Target entity description: Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal, located on the Atlantic coast and serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub of West Africa.
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A.
Nouakchott
Nouakchott is the capital and largest city of Mauritania, located on the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa.
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B.
Algiers
Algiers is the capital and largest city of Algeria, a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
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C.
Rabat
Rabat is the capital city of Morocco, located on the Atlantic coast and known for its historic medina, coastal fortifications, and role as a political and administrative center.
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D.
Luanda
Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
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E.
Mogadishu
Mogadishu is the capital and largest city of Somalia, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Horn of Africa.
- 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: Dakar Description of subject: Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal, located on the Atlantic coast and serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub of West Africa.
Referenced by (161)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Faculty of Science and Technology, Cheikh Anta Diop University