Ilam
E187910
Ilam is a city in western Iran that serves as the capital of Ilam Province near the Iraqi border.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ilam canonical | 4 |
| Ilam Province | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1658208 — 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: Ilam Context triple: [Iran Standard Time, usedInCity, Ilam]
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A.
Sadras
Sadras is a historic coastal town in Tamil Nadu, India, known for its Dutch-era fort and role as a former trading port on the Coromandel Coast.
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B.
Khoms
Khoms is a coastal city in northwestern Libya known for its proximity to the ancient Roman archaeological site of Leptis Magna.
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C.
Darband
Darband is another name for Derbent, an ancient fortified city on the Caspian Sea in present-day Dagestan, Russia, known for its strategic mountain pass and historic defensive walls.
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D.
Khasab
Khasab is a coastal city in Oman’s Musandam Peninsula known for its strategic location near the Strait of Hormuz and its role as a regional port and tourist gateway.
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E.
Nasirabad
Nasirabad is a town and administrative area located in the Balochistan region of present-day Pakistan.
- 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: Ilam Target entity description: Ilam is a city in western Iran that serves as the capital of Ilam Province near the Iraqi border.
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A.
Sadras
Sadras is a historic coastal town in Tamil Nadu, India, known for its Dutch-era fort and role as a former trading port on the Coromandel Coast.
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B.
Khoms
Khoms is a coastal city in northwestern Libya known for its proximity to the ancient Roman archaeological site of Leptis Magna.
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C.
Darband
Darband is another name for Derbent, an ancient fortified city on the Caspian Sea in present-day Dagestan, Russia, known for its strategic mountain pass and historic defensive walls.
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D.
Khasab
Khasab is a coastal city in Oman’s Musandam Peninsula known for its strategic location near the Strait of Hormuz and its role as a regional port and tourist gateway.
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E.
Nasirabad
Nasirabad is a town and administrative area located in the Balochistan region of present-day Pakistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| borderProximity | near Iraqi border ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Ilam Province ⓘ |
| climate |
continental climate
ⓘ
mountainous climate ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| countryCallingCode | +98 ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | province of Ilam ⓘ |
| geopoliticalSignificance | border city near Iraq ⓘ |
| governingCountryCapital | Tehran ⓘ |
| hasBorderingCountryNearby | Iraq ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | ایلام ⓘ |
| hasRole | provincial capital ⓘ |
| isProvincialCenterFor |
administration of Ilam Province
ⓘ
regional trade in western Iran ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Kurdish
ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
|
| locatedIn | Ilam Province ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | Ilam Province ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Iran ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Iraq ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| partOf | Iran ⓘ |
| religionMajority | Islam ⓘ |
| roadConnection | connected to other western Iranian cities ⓘ |
| timeZone | Iran Standard Time ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +3:30 ⓘ |
| utcOffsetDST | +4:30 ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Perso-Arabic script
ⓘ
surface form:
Persian alphabet
|
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: Ilam Description of subject: Ilam is a city in western Iran that serves as the capital of Ilam Province near the Iraqi border.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Western Iran
this entity surface form:
Ilam Province
subject surface form:
Western Iran
this entity surface form:
Ilam Province