Maadi
E228998
Maadi is a suburban district in southern Cairo, Egypt, known for its leafy residential streets, expatriate community, and proximity to the Nile.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maadi canonical | 10 |
| Maadi region | 1 |
| New Maadi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2049999 — 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: Maadi Context triple: [Helwan, locatedNear, Maadi]
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A.
Melissant
Melissant is a small village in the Dutch province of South Holland, located on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee.
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B.
Melide
Melide is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Ticino, known for its scenic location on Lake Lugano and the Swissminiatur open-air miniature park.
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C.
Menetes
Menetes is a genus of rodents in the squirrel family, comprising ground-dwelling squirrels native to parts of Asia.
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D.
Jahra
Jahra is a major town and administrative center in western Kuwait, known historically as an agricultural area and now as a growing suburban and commercial hub.
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E.
Daulis
Daulis was an ancient Greek city in the region of Phocis, known from classical sources and associated with various local myths and traditions.
- 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: Maadi Target entity description: Maadi is a suburban district in southern Cairo, Egypt, known for its leafy residential streets, expatriate community, and proximity to the Nile.
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A.
Melissant
Melissant is a small village in the Dutch province of South Holland, located on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee.
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B.
Melide
Melide is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Ticino, known for its scenic location on Lake Lugano and the Swissminiatur open-air miniature park.
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C.
Menetes
Menetes is a genus of rodents in the squirrel family, comprising ground-dwelling squirrels native to parts of Asia.
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D.
Jahra
Jahra is a major town and administrative center in western Kuwait, known historically as an agricultural area and now as a growing suburban and commercial hub.
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E.
Daulis
Daulis was an ancient Greek city in the region of Phocis, known from classical sources and associated with various local myths and traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
District
ⓘ
Residential area ⓘ |
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
Leafy streets
ⓘ
Low-rise buildings ⓘ Residential neighborhood ⓘ Suburban character ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
Hospitality
ⓘ
Retail ⓘ Services ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Mixed-use residential and commercial areas ⓘ |
| hasGreenSpace |
Private gardens
ⓘ
Tree-lined sidewalks ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Cairo American College
ⓘ
Maadi Sporting Club ⓘ Road 9 commercial street ⓘ |
| hasMetroStation |
Hadayek El Maadi station
ⓘ
Maadi station ⓘ Sakanat El Maadi station ⓘ |
| hasSignificantLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
Maadi Degla
ⓘ
Maadi self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
New Maadi
Old Maadi ⓘ Sarayat El Maadi ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfHousing |
Apartment buildings
ⓘ
Villas ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Cafés and restaurants
ⓘ
Expatriate community ⓘ International schools ⓘ Proximity to the Nile ⓘ Quiet atmosphere ⓘ Tree-lined avenues ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cairo
ⓘ
Greater Cairo ⓘ southern Cairo metropolitan area ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Cairo
|
| locatedOnRiver | Nile ⓘ |
| near |
Nile Corniche
ⓘ
surface form:
Corniche El Nile
Helwan Road ⓘ |
| partOf | Cairo Governorate ⓘ |
| popularWith |
Foreign diplomats
ⓘ
Multinational company employees ⓘ NGO workers ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern European Time ⓘ |
| transportServedBy | Cairo Metro Line 1 ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +2 ⓘ |
| utcOffsetDST | +3 ⓘ |
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: Maadi Description of subject: Maadi is a suburban district in southern Cairo, Egypt, known for its leafy residential streets, expatriate community, and proximity to the Nile.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New Maadi
this entity surface form:
Maadi region