Avanos
E294550
Avanos is a historic town in Turkey’s Cappadocia region, renowned for its traditional pottery, handicrafts, and scenic setting along the Kızılırmak River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avanos canonical | 7 |
| Avanos District | 1 |
| Avanos district | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2761279 — 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: Avanos Context triple: [Cappadocia, hasCity, Avanos]
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A.
Toprakkale
Toprakkale is an ancient fortress and archaeological site in eastern Turkey that served as a significant center of the Iron Age Kingdom of Urartu.
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B.
Termessos
Termessos is an ancient Pisidian city in southwestern Turkey, renowned for its well-preserved ruins dramatically set high in the Taurus Mountains within a national park.
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C.
Aspendos
Aspendos is an ancient Greco-Roman city in southern Turkey renowned for its remarkably well-preserved Roman theater.
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D.
Boğazköy
Boğazköy is an important archaeological site in central Turkey best known as the location of Hattusa, the former capital of the Hittite Empire.
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E.
Sancaktepe
Sancaktepe is a rapidly developing residential district located on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey.
- 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: Avanos Target entity description: Avanos is a historic town in Turkey’s Cappadocia region, renowned for its traditional pottery, handicrafts, and scenic setting along the Kızılırmak River.
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A.
Toprakkale
Toprakkale is an ancient fortress and archaeological site in eastern Turkey that served as a significant center of the Iron Age Kingdom of Urartu.
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B.
Termessos
Termessos is an ancient Pisidian city in southwestern Turkey, renowned for its well-preserved ruins dramatically set high in the Taurus Mountains within a national park.
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C.
Aspendos
Aspendos is an ancient Greco-Roman city in southern Turkey renowned for its remarkably well-preserved Roman theater.
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D.
Boğazköy
Boğazköy is an important archaeological site in central Turkey best known as the location of Hattusa, the former capital of the Hittite Empire.
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E.
Sancaktepe
Sancaktepe is a rapidly developing residential district located on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf |
Avanos
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Avanos District
|
| country | Turkey ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
pottery production ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal government ⓘ |
| hasClimate | continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCulturalActivity |
local craft fairs
ⓘ
pottery festivals ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bridges over Kızılırmak River
ⓘ
cobblestone streets ⓘ pottery workshops open to visitors ⓘ riverfront promenade ⓘ traditional stone houses ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
Hittite pottery tradition
ⓘ
Ottoman-era architecture ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
carpet and rug sales
ⓘ
ceramics manufacturing ⓘ souvenir trade ⓘ |
| hasNaturalResource | red clay from Kızılırmak River ⓘ |
| hasViewOf | Cappadocian landscape ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ceramics workshops
ⓘ
handicrafts ⓘ historic town center ⓘ scenic river setting ⓘ tourism ⓘ traditional pottery ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Turkish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cappadocia
ⓘ
Nevşehir ⓘ
surface form:
Nevşehir Province
|
| locatedNear |
Göreme
ⓘ
Zelve Valley ⓘ Ürgüp ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Kızılırmak River ⓘ |
| partOf | Central Anatolia Region ⓘ |
| regionType | historic town ⓘ |
| timeZone |
TRT
ⓘ
UTC+03:00 ⓘ |
| touristActivity |
pottery making demonstrations
ⓘ
shopping for handicrafts ⓘ visiting nearby rock formations ⓘ walking along Kızılırmak River ⓘ |
| touristRegion | Cappadocia tourism area ⓘ |
| transportConnection |
road links to Kayseri
ⓘ
road links to Nevşehir ⓘ |
| usesMaterialInPottery | local red clay ⓘ |
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: Avanos Description of subject: Avanos is a historic town in Turkey’s Cappadocia region, renowned for its traditional pottery, handicrafts, and scenic setting along the Kızılırmak River.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kızılırmak River
this entity surface form:
Avanos District