Southwestern Louisiana
E355555
Southwestern Louisiana is a culturally rich region of the state known for its Cajun and Creole heritage, distinctive cuisine, and vibrant music traditions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Acadiana | 14 |
| Southwestern Louisiana canonical | 3 |
| southwestern Louisiana | 3 |
| Southwest Louisiana | 2 |
| Acadiana (broad cultural region) | 1 |
| Acadiana region | 1 |
| Acadiana region of Louisiana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3412652 — 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: Southwestern Louisiana Context triple: [Crowley, Louisiana, region, Southwestern Louisiana]
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A.
eastern Louisiana
Eastern Louisiana is the portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana lying east of the Mississippi River, encompassing areas such as Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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B.
Western District of Louisiana
The Western District of Louisiana is a federal judicial district in Louisiana that handles U.S. district court cases arising from the western portion of the state.
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C.
northeastern Louisiana
Northeastern Louisiana is a region of the U.S. state of Louisiana characterized by its rural landscapes, small cities, and location along the Mississippi River in the state's upper eastern area.
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D.
Northwestern Louisiana
Northwestern Louisiana is a region of the U.S. state of Louisiana centered around the city of Shreveport and known for its blend of Southern, Texan, and Ark-La-Tex cultural influences.
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E.
Cane River region
The Cane River region is a historic area in central Louisiana known for its Creole culture, plantations, and scenic landscapes along the Cane River.
- 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: Southwestern Louisiana Target entity description: Southwestern Louisiana is a culturally rich region of the state known for its Cajun and Creole heritage, distinctive cuisine, and vibrant music traditions.
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A.
eastern Louisiana
Eastern Louisiana is the portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana lying east of the Mississippi River, encompassing areas such as Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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B.
Western District of Louisiana
The Western District of Louisiana is a federal judicial district in Louisiana that handles U.S. district court cases arising from the western portion of the state.
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C.
northeastern Louisiana
Northeastern Louisiana is a region of the U.S. state of Louisiana characterized by its rural landscapes, small cities, and location along the Mississippi River in the state's upper eastern area.
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D.
Northwestern Louisiana
Northwestern Louisiana is a region of the U.S. state of Louisiana centered around the city of Shreveport and known for its blend of Southern, Texan, and Ark-La-Tex cultural influences.
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E.
Cane River region
The Cane River region is a historic area in central Louisiana known for its Creole culture, plantations, and scenic landscapes along the Cane River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | region of Louisiana ⓘ |
| borders |
Gulf of Mexico
ⓘ
Southeast Texas ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern Texas
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| economicActivity |
offshore oil and gas
ⓘ
petrochemical industry ⓘ rice farming ⓘ seafood industry ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasCity |
Abbeville, Louisiana
ⓘ
Lafayette, Louisiana ⓘ Lake Charles ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Charles, Louisiana
New Iberia ⓘ
surface form:
New Iberia, Louisiana
Opelousas, Louisiana ⓘ |
| hasCuisine |
boudin
ⓘ
crawfish boils ⓘ gumbo ⓘ jambalaya ⓘ étouffée ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
Cajun
ⓘ
surface form:
Cajuns
Creole people ⓘ
surface form:
Louisiana Creoles
|
| hasFestival |
Cajun music festivals
ⓘ
Festival International de Louisiane ⓘ Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival ⓘ |
| hasLandscape |
bayous
ⓘ
marshes ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Louisiana French
ⓘ
surface form:
Cajun French
English ⓘ Louisiana French ⓘ |
| hasParish |
Acadia Parish
ⓘ
surface form:
Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Calcasieu Parish ⓘ
surface form:
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Evangeline Parish, Louisiana ⓘ Iberia Parish, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Lafayette Parish ⓘ
surface form:
Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
St. Landry Parish, Louisiana ONDG ⓘ St. Martin Parish, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Mary Parish, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermilion Parish, Louisiana ⓘ |
| hasRiver |
Atchafalaya River
ⓘ
Calcasieu River ⓘ Vermilion River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Cajun and Creole cuisine
ⓘ
Cajun culture ⓘ Cajun music ⓘ Creole culture ⓘ French cultural heritage ⓘ bilingual English and French communities ⓘ zydeco music ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Louisiana
ⓘ
Southern United States ⓘ |
| partOf |
Southwestern Louisiana
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Acadiana
|
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: Southwestern Louisiana Description of subject: Southwestern Louisiana is a culturally rich region of the state known for its Cajun and Creole heritage, distinctive cuisine, and vibrant music traditions.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Crowley, Louisiana
subject surface form:
Crowley, Louisiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana (broad cultural region)
subject surface form:
Lafayette, Louisiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana region
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Southwest Louisiana
subject surface form:
Elizabeth, Louisiana
this entity surface form:
Southwest Louisiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
southwestern Louisiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
southwestern Louisiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana
this entity surface form:
Acadiana region of Louisiana