Amman
E15311
Amman is the capital and largest city of Jordan, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in the Arab world.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amman canonical | 231 |
| Amman, Jordan | 9 |
| Amman Governorate | 3 |
| Asia/Amman | 2 |
| city of Amman | 2 |
| Amman city center | 1 |
| Amman city limits | 1 |
| Amman cityscape | 1 |
| Amman metropolitan area | 1 |
| Amman, capital of Jordan | 1 |
| City of Amman | 1 |
| central Amman | 1 |
| downtown Amman | 1 |
| eastern Amman urban area | 1 |
| metropolitan Amman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T67149 — 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: Amman Context triple: [Arab world, hasMajorCity, Amman]
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A.
Kuwait City
Kuwait City is the capital and largest city of Kuwait, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Persian Gulf.
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B.
Damascus
Damascus is the capital and one of the largest cities of Syria, renowned as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a historic cultural and commercial center of the Arab world.
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C.
Haifa
Haifa is a major Israeli city on the Mediterranean coast, known for its significant port, mixed Jewish-Arab population, and the terraced Baháʼí Gardens on Mount Carmel.
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D.
Ramallah
Ramallah is a major Palestinian city in the central West Bank that functions as the de facto administrative and political center of the Palestinian Authority.
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E.
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, known as a historic cultural, commercial, and financial hub of the Eastern Mediterranean.
- 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: Amman Target entity description: Amman is the capital and largest city of Jordan, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in the Arab world.
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A.
Kuwait City
Kuwait City is the capital and largest city of Kuwait, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Persian Gulf.
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B.
Damascus
Damascus is the capital and one of the largest cities of Syria, renowned as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a historic cultural and commercial center of the Arab world.
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C.
Haifa
Haifa is a major Israeli city on the Mediterranean coast, known for its significant port, mixed Jewish-Arab population, and the terraced Baháʼí Gardens on Mount Carmel.
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D.
Ramallah
Ramallah is a major Palestinian city in the central West Bank that functions as the de facto administrative and political center of the Palestinian Authority.
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E.
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, known as a historic cultural, commercial, and financial hub of the Eastern Mediterranean.
- 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: Amman Description of subject: Amman is the capital and largest city of Jordan, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in the Arab world.
Referenced by (257)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Asia/Amman
this entity surface form:
downtown Amman
subject surface form:
Roman Theatre (Amman)
this entity surface form:
Asia/Amman
subject surface form:
Mausoleum of King Hussein
subject surface form:
Mausoleum of King Hussein
this entity surface form:
central Amman
this entity surface form:
Amman metropolitan area
subject surface form:
Jordanian Armed Forces
subject surface form:
Abdullah II of Jordan