Ouidah
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Ouidah is a coastal city in Benin historically known as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and for its rich Vodun (Voodoo) cultural heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ouidah canonical | 7 |
| Ouidah, Benin | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1500720 — 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: Ouidah Context triple: [Benin, hasHistoricalSite, Ouidah]
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A.
Abidjan
Abidjan is a major economic and cultural hub on the southern coast of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its bustling port, modern skyline, and status as one of the largest cities in West Africa.
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B.
Lomé
Lomé is the coastal capital and largest city of Togo, serving as a key economic and cultural hub in West Africa.
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C.
Cotonou
Cotonou is the largest city and economic hub of Benin, located on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.
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D.
Calabar
Calabar is a historic port city in southeastern Nigeria known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its vibrant cultural festivals.
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E.
Libreville
Libreville is the largest city and main economic and cultural center of Gabon, located on the country’s Atlantic coast.
- 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: Ouidah Target entity description: Ouidah is a coastal city in Benin historically known as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and for its rich Vodun (Voodoo) cultural heritage.
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A.
Abidjan
Abidjan is a major economic and cultural hub on the southern coast of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its bustling port, modern skyline, and status as one of the largest cities in West Africa.
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B.
Lomé
Lomé is the coastal capital and largest city of Togo, serving as a key economic and cultural hub in West Africa.
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C.
Cotonou
Cotonou is the largest city and economic hub of Benin, located on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.
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D.
Calabar
Calabar is a historic port city in southeastern Nigeria known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its vibrant cultural festivals.
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E.
Libreville
Libreville is the largest city and main economic and cultural center of Gabon, located on the country’s Atlantic coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Ouidah Description of subject: Ouidah is a coastal city in Benin historically known as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and for its rich Vodun (Voodoo) cultural heritage.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ouidah, Benin
this entity surface form:
Ouidah, Benin
subject surface form:
Angélique Kidjo
this entity surface form:
Ouidah, Benin