Sasun region
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The Sasun region is a mountainous area in historical Western Armenia, renowned as the legendary homeland of the folk heroes in the Armenian epic “Daredevils of Sassoun.”
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sassoun region | 3 |
| Sasun region canonical | 1 |
| Western Armenia (historical region) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1742709 — 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: Sasun region Context triple: [Daredevils of Sassoun, regionOfFolklore, Sasun region]
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A.
Armenian Oblast
The Armenian Oblast was a 19th-century administrative region of the Russian Empire established after the Russo-Persian War, encompassing much of Eastern Armenia before its reorganization into the Erivan Governorate.
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B.
Erivan Governorate
Erivan Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire in the South Caucasus, centered on the city of Erivan (modern Yerevan) and largely corresponding to present-day western Armenia.
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C.
Mestia
Mestia is a highland town in northwestern Georgia, renowned as a cultural and tourist hub of the Svaneti region in the Caucasus Mountains.
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D.
Yevlakh
Yevlakh is a city in central Azerbaijan that serves as an important regional transport and agricultural hub.
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E.
Samtskhe-Javakheti
Samtskhe-Javakheti is a historical and cultural region in southern Georgia known for its mountainous landscapes, medieval fortresses, and ethnically diverse population.
- 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: Sasun region Target entity description: The Sasun region is a mountainous area in historical Western Armenia, renowned as the legendary homeland of the folk heroes in the Armenian epic “Daredevils of Sassoun.”
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A.
Armenian Oblast
The Armenian Oblast was a 19th-century administrative region of the Russian Empire established after the Russo-Persian War, encompassing much of Eastern Armenia before its reorganization into the Erivan Governorate.
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B.
Erivan Governorate
Erivan Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire in the South Caucasus, centered on the city of Erivan (modern Yerevan) and largely corresponding to present-day western Armenia.
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C.
Mestia
Mestia is a highland town in northwestern Georgia, renowned as a cultural and tourist hub of the Svaneti region in the Caucasus Mountains.
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D.
Yevlakh
Yevlakh is a city in central Azerbaijan that serves as an important regional transport and agricultural hub.
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E.
Samtskhe-Javakheti
Samtskhe-Javakheti is a historical and cultural region in southern Georgia known for its mountainous landscapes, medieval fortresses, and ethnically diverse population.
- 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: Sasun region Description of subject: The Sasun region is a mountainous area in historical Western Armenia, renowned as the legendary homeland of the folk heroes in the Armenian epic “Daredevils of Sassoun.”
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Daredevils of Sassoun
this entity surface form:
Western Armenia (historical region)
this entity surface form:
Sassoun region
this entity surface form:
Sassoun region
this entity surface form:
Sassoun region