Abadan
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Abadan is a port city in southwestern Iran, located on an island near the Persian Gulf and known for its major oil refinery and strategic position along the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Abadan canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3276472 — 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: Abadan Context triple: [Shatt al-Arab, passesThrough, Abadan]
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A.
Qom River
The Qom River is a significant river in central Iran that flows through the city of Qom and contributes to the region’s agriculture and water supply.
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B.
Sefid-Rud
Sefid-Rud is a major river in northern Iran that flows through the Alborz Mountains and into the Caspian Sea, playing a key role in regional agriculture and hydropower.
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C.
Zayandeh River
The Zayandeh River is a major river in central Iran that flows through the city of Isfahan, historically supporting its agriculture, architecture, and famous bridges.
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D.
Karkheh River
The Karkheh River is a major waterway in western Iran that flows through the Khuzestan plain and supports extensive agriculture and settlements before emptying into the Mesopotamian lowlands.
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E.
Vakhsh River
The Vakhsh River is a major river in Central Asia that flows through Tajikistan, forming a key part of the Amu Darya basin and supporting extensive hydroelectric power generation and irrigation.
- 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: Abadan Target entity description: Abadan is a port city in southwestern Iran, located on an island near the Persian Gulf and known for its major oil refinery and strategic position along the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
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A.
Qom River
The Qom River is a significant river in central Iran that flows through the city of Qom and contributes to the region’s agriculture and water supply.
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B.
Sefid-Rud
Sefid-Rud is a major river in northern Iran that flows through the Alborz Mountains and into the Caspian Sea, playing a key role in regional agriculture and hydropower.
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C.
Zayandeh River
The Zayandeh River is a major river in central Iran that flows through the city of Isfahan, historically supporting its agriculture, architecture, and famous bridges.
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D.
Karkheh River
The Karkheh River is a major waterway in western Iran that flows through the Khuzestan plain and supports extensive agriculture and settlements before emptying into the Mesopotamian lowlands.
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E.
Vakhsh River
The Vakhsh River is a major river in Central Asia that flows through Tajikistan, forming a key part of the Amu Darya basin and supporting extensive hydroelectric power generation and irrigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Abadan Description of subject: Abadan is a port city in southwestern Iran, located on an island near the Persian Gulf and known for its major oil refinery and strategic position along the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Southern Iran
subject surface form:
Southwestern Iran