Tuban
E201811
Tuban is a coastal town and regency capital in northern East Java, Indonesia, known historically as a trading port and for its cultural and religious heritage sites.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tuban canonical | 3 |
| Tuban Regency | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1366176 — 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: Tuban Context triple: [East Java, hasMajorCity, Tuban]
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A.
Blitar
Blitar is a city in East Java, Indonesia, best known as the hometown and final resting place of the country’s first president, Sukarno.
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B.
Tabanan Regency
Tabanan Regency is an agricultural and coastal region in western Bali, Indonesia, known for its lush rice terraces and the iconic Tanah Lot sea temple.
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C.
Mojokerto
Mojokerto is a city in Indonesia known for its historical significance as part of the former Majapahit Empire and its location in the province of East Java.
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D.
Gresik
Gresik is an industrial and port city in Indonesia known for its cement production and role as part of the Surabaya metropolitan area.
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E.
Pasuruan
Pasuruan is a city in East Java, Indonesia, known as a gateway to the popular Mount Bromo volcanic tourism area.
- 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: Tuban Target entity description: Tuban is a coastal town and regency capital in northern East Java, Indonesia, known historically as a trading port and for its cultural and religious heritage sites.
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A.
Blitar
Blitar is a city in East Java, Indonesia, best known as the hometown and final resting place of the country’s first president, Sukarno.
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B.
Tabanan Regency
Tabanan Regency is an agricultural and coastal region in western Bali, Indonesia, known for its lush rice terraces and the iconic Tanah Lot sea temple.
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C.
Mojokerto
Mojokerto is a city in Indonesia known for its historical significance as part of the former Majapahit Empire and its location in the province of East Java.
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D.
Gresik
Gresik is an industrial and port city in Indonesia known for its cement production and role as part of the Surabaya metropolitan area.
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E.
Pasuruan
Pasuruan is a city in East Java, Indonesia, known as a gateway to the popular Mount Bromo volcanic tourism area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
regency capital
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | capital of a regency in East Java ⓘ |
| coastType | north coast of East Java ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
fishing
ⓘ
industry ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| governingBody | Tuban Regency Government ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| hasCulturalInfluence |
Chinese-Indonesian culture
ⓘ
Islamic world ⓘ
surface form:
Islamic culture
Javanese culture ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite |
Kwan Sing Bio Temple
ⓘ
Masjid Agung Tuban (Great Mosque of Tuban) ⓘ Tomb of Sunan Bonang ⓘ colonial-era buildings in town center ⓘ |
| hasPort | Tuban port ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
port town on the Java Sea
ⓘ
trading port ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Chinese temple
ⓘ
Islamic heritage sites ⓘ coastal location ⓘ cultural heritage ⓘ historic tombs of Islamic saints ⓘ historical trading port ⓘ old mosques ⓘ religious tourism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Java
ⓘ
Java ⓘ Tuban self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tuban Regency
|
| locatedInRegion | Java northern coastal corridor ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
UTC+7
ⓘ
Western Indonesian Time ⓘ
surface form:
Western Indonesia Time
|
| locatedOn |
Java Sea
ⓘ
north coast of Java ⓘ |
| nearbyBodyOfWater | Java Sea ⓘ |
| partOf |
East Java
ⓘ
surface form:
Province of East Java
|
| primaryLanguage |
Indonesian
ⓘ
Javanese ⓘ |
| region | northern East Java ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
ⓘ
surface form:
Islam (majority)
|
| religiousTourismSite |
Kwan Sing Bio Temple
ⓘ
surface form:
Kwan Sing Bio Chinese temple
Sunan Bonang pilgrimage complex ⓘ |
| role | capital of Tuban Regency ⓘ |
| transport |
Pantura (north coast) road
ⓘ
intercity bus connections ⓘ |
| urbanType | coastal town ⓘ |
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: Tuban Description of subject: Tuban is a coastal town and regency capital in northern East Java, Indonesia, known historically as a trading port and for its cultural and religious heritage sites.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tuban Regency