Lusaka, Zambia
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Lusaka, Zambia is the capital and largest city of Zambia, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lusaka | 68 |
| Lusaka, Zambia canonical | 3 |
| City of Lusaka | 1 |
| Lusaka (capital of Zambia) | 1 |
| Lusaka metropolitan area | 1 |
| Lusaka urban area | 1 |
| Lusaka, about 130 km north | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T247963 — 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: Lusaka, Zambia Context triple: [African Union, foundedAt, Lusaka, Zambia]
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A.
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second-largest city and a major industrial, cultural, and transport hub in the southwestern part of the country.
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Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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C.
Harare
Harare is the largest city and main economic, political, and cultural center of Zimbabwe.
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Luanda
Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
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E.
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub in East Africa.
- 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: Lusaka, Zambia Target entity description: Lusaka, Zambia is the capital and largest city of Zambia, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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A.
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second-largest city and a major industrial, cultural, and transport hub in the southwestern part of the country.
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B.
Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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C.
Harare
Harare is the largest city and main economic, political, and cultural center of Zimbabwe.
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D.
Luanda
Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
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E.
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub in East Africa.
- 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: Lusaka, Zambia Description of subject: Lusaka, Zambia is the capital and largest city of Zambia, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
Referenced by (76)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Kabwe
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Lusaka, about 130 km north