Formosa
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Formosa is a city in northeastern Argentina that serves as the capital of Formosa Province, located near the border with Paraguay.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Formosa Province | 11 |
| Formosa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1157084 — 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: Formosa Context triple: [Paraguay River, cityOnRiver, Formosa]
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A.
Formosa
Formosa is the historical Western name for Taiwan, an East Asian island whose post–World War II status was addressed in Allied agreements such as the Cairo Declaration.
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B.
Paracel Islands
The Paracel Islands are a strategically located and resource-rich archipelago in the South China Sea, subject to overlapping territorial claims by China, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
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C.
Matsu Islands
The Matsu Islands are a small archipelago of strategically located, Taiwan-administered islands off the coast of mainland China, known for their military significance and unique blend of Fujianese and Taiwanese culture.
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D.
Deshima
Deshima was a small artificial island in Nagasaki Bay that served as the Dutch East India Company’s exclusive trading post and Japan’s primary window to the West during its period of national isolation.
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E.
Ryukyu Islands
The Ryukyu Islands are a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern Japan, including Okinawa, known for their distinct Ryukyuan culture, history as an independent kingdom, and strategic location between Kyushu and Taiwan.
- 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: Formosa Target entity description: Formosa is a city in northeastern Argentina that serves as the capital of Formosa Province, located near the border with Paraguay.
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A.
Formosa
Formosa is the historical Western name for Taiwan, an East Asian island whose post–World War II status was addressed in Allied agreements such as the Cairo Declaration.
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B.
Paracel Islands
The Paracel Islands are a strategically located and resource-rich archipelago in the South China Sea, subject to overlapping territorial claims by China, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
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C.
Matsu Islands
The Matsu Islands are a small archipelago of strategically located, Taiwan-administered islands off the coast of mainland China, known for their military significance and unique blend of Fujianese and Taiwanese culture.
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D.
Deshima
Deshima was a small artificial island in Nagasaki Bay that served as the Dutch East India Company’s exclusive trading post and Japan’s primary window to the West during its period of national isolation.
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E.
Ryukyu Islands
The Ryukyu Islands are a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern Japan, including Okinawa, known for their distinct Ryukyuan culture, history as an independent kingdom, and strategic location between Kyushu and Taiwan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
provincial capital ⓘ |
| capitalOf |
Formosa
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Formosa Province
|
| coordinateLocation | -26.1849 -58.1750 ⓘ |
| country | Argentina ⓘ |
| countryCodeISO3166-1Alpha2 | AR ⓘ |
| hasBorderRiver | Paraguay River ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administrative center of Formosa Province
ⓘ
economic center of Formosa Province ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Formosa
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Formosa Province
|
| locatedInContinent | South America ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision |
Mesopotamia (Argentine region)
ⓘ
surface form:
Argentine Mesopotamia (broad region)
|
| locatedInHydrologicalBasin |
Paraguay River
ⓘ
surface form:
Paraguay River basin
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| locatedInRegion | Northeastern Argentina ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC−03:00 ⓘ |
| locatedOnBorderWith | Paraguay ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gran Chaco
ⓘ
surface form:
Gran Chaco region
|
| roadNetworkConnection | connected by National Route 11 ⓘ |
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: Formosa Description of subject: Formosa is a city in northeastern Argentina that serves as the capital of Formosa Province, located near the border with Paraguay.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Northern Argentina
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province
this entity surface form:
Formosa Province