Polonnaruwa
E277835
Polonnaruwa is an ancient city in Sri Lanka renowned for its well-preserved medieval ruins and role as a major royal capital of the Sinhalese kingdom.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Polonnaruwa canonical | 3 |
| Polonnaruwa District | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2518903 — 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: Polonnaruwa Context triple: [Sinhalese people, historicalCapital, Polonnaruwa]
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A.
Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka is a southwestern administrative region known for its lush rainforests, gem mining (especially in Ratnapura), and rich cultural heritage.
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B.
Central Province of Sri Lanka
The Central Province of Sri Lanka is a mountainous inland region known for its historic cities like Kandy, tea plantations, and cultural significance as a heartland of Sinhalese heritage.
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C.
Jaffna
Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
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D.
Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Southern Province, Sri Lanka is a coastal administrative region in the south of Sri Lanka known for its historic cities, beaches, and cultural heritage.
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E.
Kandy
Kandy is a historic city in central Sri Lanka renowned for its cultural heritage, including the Temple of the Tooth and its role as a former royal stronghold.
- 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: Polonnaruwa Target entity description: Polonnaruwa is an ancient city in Sri Lanka renowned for its well-preserved medieval ruins and role as a major royal capital of the Sinhalese kingdom.
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A.
Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka is a southwestern administrative region known for its lush rainforests, gem mining (especially in Ratnapura), and rich cultural heritage.
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B.
Central Province of Sri Lanka
The Central Province of Sri Lanka is a mountainous inland region known for its historic cities like Kandy, tea plantations, and cultural significance as a heartland of Sinhalese heritage.
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C.
Jaffna
Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
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D.
Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Southern Province, Sri Lanka is a coastal administrative region in the south of Sri Lanka known for its historic cities, beaches, and cultural heritage.
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E.
Kandy
Kandy is a historic city in central Sri Lanka renowned for its cultural heritage, including the Temple of the Tooth and its role as a former royal stronghold.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Polonnaruwa Description of subject: Polonnaruwa is an ancient city in Sri Lanka renowned for its well-preserved medieval ruins and role as a major royal capital of the Sinhalese kingdom.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Polonnaruwa District
this entity surface form:
Polonnaruwa District