Ita Yemoo
E288911
Ita Yemoo is an archaeological site in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, renowned for yielding significant ancient Ife bronze and terracotta artworks that illuminate the sophistication of early Yoruba civilization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ita Yemoo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2670602 — 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: Ita Yemoo Context triple: [Ife bronze and terracotta sculpture, foundAt, Ita Yemoo]
-
A.
Ijesha
Ijesha are a subgroup of the Yoruba people known for their distinct dialect, cultural traditions, and historical presence in southwestern Nigeria.
-
B.
Mameyal
Mameyal is a coastal barrio (neighborhood) of the municipality of Dorado in Puerto Rico, known for its seaside setting and local community character.
-
C.
Ogwumike
Ogwumike is a Nigerian surname most prominently associated with a family of professional basketball players, including WNBA star Nneka Ogwumike.
-
D.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
-
E.
Lemi
Lemi is a small rural municipality in southeastern Finland known for its lakes, forests, and traditional Karelian culture.
- 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: Ita Yemoo Target entity description: Ita Yemoo is an archaeological site in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, renowned for yielding significant ancient Ife bronze and terracotta artworks that illuminate the sophistication of early Yoruba civilization.
-
A.
Ijesha
Ijesha are a subgroup of the Yoruba people known for their distinct dialect, cultural traditions, and historical presence in southwestern Nigeria.
-
B.
Mameyal
Mameyal is a coastal barrio (neighborhood) of the municipality of Dorado in Puerto Rico, known for its seaside setting and local community character.
-
C.
Ogwumike
Ogwumike is a Nigerian surname most prominently associated with a family of professional basketball players, including WNBA star Nneka Ogwumike.
-
D.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
-
E.
Lemi
Lemi is a small rural municipality in southeastern Finland known for its lakes, forests, and traditional Karelian culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | archaeological site ⓘ |
| artStyle | naturalistic Ife style ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Yoruba people
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoruba civilization
ancient Ife culture ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| culture | Yoruba ⓘ |
| discovered | 20th century ⓘ |
| evidenceFor |
long-standing artistic traditions in Ile-Ife
ⓘ
specialized craftsmanship in Yoruba society ⓘ urban complexity in ancient Ife ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfFind |
figures
ⓘ
heads ⓘ regalia fragments ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ancient sculptures
ⓘ
archaeological finds ⓘ bronze artworks ⓘ terracotta artworks ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ile-Ife
ⓘ
Osun State ⓘ Yorubaland ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Ooni’s Palace, Ile-Ife
ⓘ
surface form:
Ooni’s palace, Ile-Ife
|
| material |
bronze
ⓘ
copper alloy ⓘ terracotta ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ife Museum
ⓘ
surface form:
Ife archaeological complex
|
| researchField |
African archaeology
ⓘ
art history ⓘ |
| significance | evidence of sophistication of early Yoruba civilization ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early second millennium CE ⓘ |
| yields |
ceramic objects
ⓘ
metal objects ⓘ ritual objects ⓘ |
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: Ita Yemoo Description of subject: Ita Yemoo is an archaeological site in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, renowned for yielding significant ancient Ife bronze and terracotta artworks that illuminate the sophistication of early Yoruba civilization.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.