Timor
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Timor is a large island at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands in Southeast Asia, divided between the sovereign state of Timor-Leste in the east and Indonesian territory in the west.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Timor canonical | 58 |
| Timor Island | 17 |
| Timor island | 7 |
| island of Timor | 5 |
| Island of Timor | 2 |
| Timor area | 1 |
| Timor region | 1 |
| Timor – Wetar | 1 |
| Timor-Leste–Indonesia border region | 1 |
| West Timor (Indonesia) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1071163 — 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: Timor Context triple: [Timor (western part), partOf, Timor]
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A.
Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste is a Southeast Asian island nation on the eastern half of Timor known for its recent independence, Portuguese influence, and developing oil and gas economy.
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B.
Oecusse
Oecusse is a coastal exclave region of Timor-Leste located on the northwestern part of Timor island, separated from the country's main territory by Indonesian land.
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C.
Flores
Flores is a large island in eastern Indonesia known for its volcanic landscapes, traditional villages, and proximity to Komodo National Park with its famous Komodo dragons.
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D.
West Papua
West Papua is a culturally Melanesian region in the western half of New Guinea, administered by Indonesia and known for its rich indigenous traditions and biodiversity.
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E.
Tidore
Tidore is an island and historic sultanate in eastern Indonesia that was once a major center of the regional spice trade.
- 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: Timor Target entity description: Timor is a large island at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands in Southeast Asia, divided between the sovereign state of Timor-Leste in the east and Indonesian territory in the west.
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A.
Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste is a Southeast Asian island nation on the eastern half of Timor known for its recent independence, Portuguese influence, and developing oil and gas economy.
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B.
Oecusse
Oecusse is a coastal exclave region of Timor-Leste located on the northwestern part of Timor island, separated from the country's main territory by Indonesian land.
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C.
Flores
Flores is a large island in eastern Indonesia known for its volcanic landscapes, traditional villages, and proximity to Komodo National Park with its famous Komodo dragons.
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D.
West Papua
West Papua is a culturally Melanesian region in the western half of New Guinea, administered by Indonesia and known for its rich indigenous traditions and biodiversity.
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E.
Tidore
Tidore is an island and historic sultanate in eastern Indonesia that was once a major center of the regional spice trade.
- 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: Timor Description of subject: Timor is a large island at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands in Southeast Asia, divided between the sovereign state of Timor-Leste in the east and Indonesian territory in the west.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Timor Island
this entity surface form:
Timor Island
this entity surface form:
Timor Island
this entity surface form:
Timor island
this entity surface form:
Timor Island
this entity surface form:
Timor island
this entity surface form:
island of Timor
this entity surface form:
island of Timor
this entity surface form:
Timor Island
this entity surface form:
Timor-Leste–Indonesia border region
this entity surface form:
island of Timor
this entity surface form:
Timor – Wetar
this entity surface form:
Timor region