New Oyo
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New Oyo is a historic Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria that served as the later political center of the Oyo Empire after the decline of Old Oyo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Oyo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2534411 — 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: New Oyo Context triple: [Oyo, capitalCityInHistory, New Oyo]
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A.
Kalyan
Kalyan is a major railway junction and suburban city in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, serving as a key transit hub for long-distance and local trains in Maharashtra, India.
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B.
Magarpatta
Magarpatta is a planned integrated township in Pune, India, known for its large IT park, residential complexes, and commercial infrastructure.
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C.
Samyabadi
Samyabadi is a revolutionary Bengali poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam that powerfully expresses themes of equality, rebellion, and social justice.
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D.
Mahanagar
Mahanagar is a 1963 Bengali drama film by Satyajit Ray that explores the social and familial tensions arising when a middle-class housewife takes up employment in Calcutta.
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E.
Moolchand
Moolchand is a well-known locality and landmark area in South Delhi, India, recognized for its major hospital and its location along key city routes.
- 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: New Oyo Target entity description: New Oyo is a historic Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria that served as the later political center of the Oyo Empire after the decline of Old Oyo.
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A.
Kalyan
Kalyan is a major railway junction and suburban city in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, serving as a key transit hub for long-distance and local trains in Maharashtra, India.
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B.
Magarpatta
Magarpatta is a planned integrated township in Pune, India, known for its large IT park, residential complexes, and commercial infrastructure.
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C.
Samyabadi
Samyabadi is a revolutionary Bengali poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam that powerfully expresses themes of equality, rebellion, and social justice.
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D.
Mahanagar
Mahanagar is a 1963 Bengali drama film by Satyajit Ray that explores the social and familial tensions arising when a middle-class housewife takes up employment in Calcutta.
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E.
Moolchand
Moolchand is a well-known locality and landmark area in South Delhi, India, recognized for its major hospital and its location along key city routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
historical city ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Oyo
ⓘ
Alaafin of Oyo ⓘ
surface form:
Oyo Alaafin
|
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| culture | Yoruba culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yoruba people ⓘ |
| governmentType | traditional monarchy (customary) ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | precolonial Yoruba monarchy ⓘ |
| hasRulerTitle | Alaafin of Oyo ⓘ |
| historicalRole | later capital of the Oyo Empire ⓘ |
| language |
Yoruba
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoruba language
|
| locatedIn |
Oyo State
ⓘ
Western Nigeria ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern Nigeria
Western Nigeria ⓘ
surface form:
Yorubaland
|
| partOf | Oyo Empire ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Yoruba traditional religion ⓘ |
| replaced |
Oyo-Ile
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Oyo
|
| servedAs | political center of the Oyo Empire ⓘ |
| traditionalRulerResidence |
Oyo palace
ⓘ
surface form:
Alaafin’s palace
|
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: New Oyo Description of subject: New Oyo is a historic Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria that served as the later political center of the Oyo Empire after the decline of Old Oyo.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.