Badulla
E335546
Badulla is a major town in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, known as the capital of Uva Province and a regional hub surrounded by tea plantations and scenic mountain landscapes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Badulla canonical | 9 |
| Badulla District | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3019852 — 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: Badulla Context triple: [Udarata, containsCity, Badulla]
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Galle
Galle is a historic coastal city in southern Sri Lanka renowned for its well-preserved colonial-era fort and long-standing role as a key Indian Ocean trading hub.
-
C.
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya is a Sri Lankan highland city famed for its cool climate, tea plantations, and colonial-era architecture.
-
D.
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the seat of the national legislature.
-
E.
Polonnaruwa
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.
- 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: Badulla Target entity description: Badulla is a major town in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, known as the capital of Uva Province and a regional hub surrounded by tea plantations and scenic mountain landscapes.
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Galle
Galle is a historic coastal city in southern Sri Lanka renowned for its well-preserved colonial-era fort and long-standing role as a key Indian Ocean trading hub.
-
C.
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya is a Sri Lankan highland city famed for its cool climate, tea plantations, and colonial-era architecture.
-
D.
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the seat of the national legislature.
-
E.
Polonnaruwa
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Badulla Description of subject: Badulla is a major town in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, known as the capital of Uva Province and a regional hub surrounded by tea plantations and scenic mountain landscapes.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Udarata
subject surface form:
Uva Province
subject surface form:
Uva Province
subject surface form:
Uva Province
subject surface form:
Uva Province
this entity surface form:
Badulla District