Mindanao
E18195
Mindanao is the second-largest and southernmost major island of the Philippines, known for its diverse cultures, rich natural resources, and significant agricultural and economic role in the country.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mindanao canonical | 450 |
| Mindanao island group | 13 |
| Mindanao Island | 4 |
| Mindanao Island Group | 4 |
| Mindanao region | 3 |
| island of Mindanao | 3 |
| Mindanao island | 2 |
| Mindanao (migrant communities) | 1 |
| Mindanao Iranun | 1 |
| Philippines – Mindanao island group | 1 |
| Pulau Mindanao | 1 |
| southern Mindanao | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T59668 — 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: Mindanao Context triple: [Filipino, majorIslandGroups, Mindanao]
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A.
Luzon
Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines, home to the nation’s capital, Manila, and its main political and economic centers.
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B.
Visayas
Visayas is a central group of islands in the Philippines known for its rich cultural heritage, vibrant festivals, and popular beach and diving destinations.
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C.
Bataan Peninsula
The Bataan Peninsula is a landform in the Philippines west of Manila that became historically significant as the site of a major World War II battle and the subsequent Bataan Death March.
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D.
Philippines
The Philippines is a Southeast Asian archipelagic country in the western Pacific Ocean known for its diverse culture, colonial history, and thousands of islands.
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E.
Celebes
Celebes, now known as Sulawesi, is a large, uniquely shaped island in Indonesia renowned for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich marine biodiversity.
- 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: Mindanao Target entity description: Mindanao is the second-largest and southernmost major island of the Philippines, known for its diverse cultures, rich natural resources, and significant agricultural and economic role in the country.
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A.
Luzon
Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines, home to the nation’s capital, Manila, and its main political and economic centers.
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B.
Visayas
Visayas is a central group of islands in the Philippines known for its rich cultural heritage, vibrant festivals, and popular beach and diving destinations.
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C.
Bataan Peninsula
The Bataan Peninsula is a landform in the Philippines west of Manila that became historically significant as the site of a major World War II battle and the subsequent Bataan Death March.
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D.
Philippines
The Philippines is a Southeast Asian archipelagic country in the western Pacific Ocean known for its diverse culture, colonial history, and thousands of islands.
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E.
Celebes
Celebes, now known as Sulawesi, is a large, uniquely shaped island in Indonesia renowned for its diverse cultures, mountainous landscapes, and rich marine biodiversity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (81)
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: Mindanao Description of subject: Mindanao is the second-largest and southernmost major island of the Philippines, known for its diverse cultures, rich natural resources, and significant agricultural and economic role in the country.
Referenced by (484)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat
this entity surface form:
Mindanao island group
subject surface form:
Banga, South Cotabato
this entity surface form:
Mindanao Island Group
this entity surface form:
Mindanao Island
this entity surface form:
Mindanao island group