Lima
E2605
Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center on South America's Pacific coast.
All labels observed (23)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lima canonical | 482 |
| Lima, Peru | 32 |
| Lima metropolitan area | 31 |
| city of Lima | 6 |
| City of Lima | 4 |
| Lima Metropolitan Area | 4 |
| Lima (national capital of Peru) | 3 |
| Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru | 3 |
| Lima urban area | 2 |
| Centro de Lima | 1 |
| Costa Verde (Lima) | 1 |
| Greater Lima | 1 |
| Historic Centre of Lima | 1 |
| Jirón Antonio Miró Quesada, Lima | 1 |
| Lima (city) | 1 |
| Lima City | 1 |
| Lima Metropolitana | 1 |
| Lima city | 1 |
| Lima city conurbation | 1 |
| Lima city proper | 1 |
| Lima is capital of Peru | 1 |
| central Lima | 1 |
| metropolitan area of Lima | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14440 — 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: Lima Context triple: [Eastern Time Zone, includesMajorCity, Lima]
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A.
Santiago
Santiago is the capital and primary economic, political, and cultural center of Chile, located in the country’s central valley.
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B.
La Serena
La Serena is a coastal city in northern Chile known for its colonial architecture, beaches, and role as a gateway to major astronomical observatories in the region.
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C.
Bogotá
Bogotá is the high-altitude capital and largest city of Colombia, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center in South America.
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D.
Peru
Peru is a South American country known for its rich Inca heritage, diverse landscapes from Andes mountains to Amazon rainforest, and the iconic archaeological site of Machu Picchu.
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E.
Mexico City
Mexico City is the densely populated cultural, political, and economic center of Mexico, known for its rich history, colonial architecture, and vibrant urban life.
- 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: Lima Target entity description: Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center on South America's Pacific coast.
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A.
Santiago
Santiago is the capital and primary economic, political, and cultural center of Chile, located in the country’s central valley.
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B.
La Serena
La Serena is a coastal city in northern Chile known for its colonial architecture, beaches, and role as a gateway to major astronomical observatories in the region.
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C.
Bogotá
Bogotá is the high-altitude capital and largest city of Colombia, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center in South America.
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D.
Peru
Peru is a South American country known for its rich Inca heritage, diverse landscapes from Andes mountains to Amazon rainforest, and the iconic archaeological site of Machu Picchu.
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E.
Mexico City
Mexico City is the densely populated cultural, political, and economic center of Mexico, known for its rich history, colonial architecture, and vibrant urban life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Lima Description of subject: Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center on South America's Pacific coast.
Referenced by (581)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lima (city)
this entity surface form:
Lima, Peru
this entity surface form:
Lima, Peru
this entity surface form:
central Lima