Matara District
E321672
Matara District is an administrative district in southern Sri Lanka known for its coastal cities, historical sites, and agricultural hinterland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matara District canonical | 14 |
| Matara District Secretariat | 1 |
| Matara electoral district | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3025752 — 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: Matara District Context triple: [Southern Province, Sri Lanka, containsAdministrativeDivision, Matara District]
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A.
Lasbela District
Lasbela District is a coastal administrative district in Balochistan, Pakistan, known for its Arabian Sea shoreline, industrial zones, and proximity to Karachi.
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B.
North Central Province, Sri Lanka
North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a largely rural administrative region known for its Sinhalese majority population, ancient irrigation systems, and important archaeological sites such as Anuradhapura.
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C.
Hambantota
Hambantota is a coastal city in southern Sri Lanka known for its rapid development, including major infrastructure projects like a deep-sea port and international airport.
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D.
Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Northern Province, Sri Lanka is the island nation’s northernmost province, centered on the Jaffna Peninsula and known for its Tamil cultural heritage and post-civil war reconstruction.
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E.
Kilinochchi District
Kilinochchi District is an administrative region in northern Sri Lanka, known for its predominantly Tamil population and its role in the country’s recent civil conflict history.
- 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: Matara District Target entity description: Matara District is an administrative district in southern Sri Lanka known for its coastal cities, historical sites, and agricultural hinterland.
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A.
Lasbela District
Lasbela District is a coastal administrative district in Balochistan, Pakistan, known for its Arabian Sea shoreline, industrial zones, and proximity to Karachi.
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B.
North Central Province, Sri Lanka
North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a largely rural administrative region known for its Sinhalese majority population, ancient irrigation systems, and important archaeological sites such as Anuradhapura.
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C.
Hambantota
Hambantota is a coastal city in southern Sri Lanka known for its rapid development, including major infrastructure projects like a deep-sea port and international airport.
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D.
Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Northern Province, Sri Lanka is the island nation’s northernmost province, centered on the Jaffna Peninsula and known for its Tamil cultural heritage and post-civil war reconstruction.
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E.
Kilinochchi District
Kilinochchi District is an administrative region in northern Sri Lanka, known for its predominantly Tamil population and its role in the country’s recent civil conflict history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Matara District Description of subject: Matara District is an administrative district in southern Sri Lanka known for its coastal cities, historical sites, and agricultural hinterland.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Matara District Secretariat
subject surface form:
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna
subject surface form:
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ruhuna