Obi
E368495
Obi is a local government area in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, serving as an administrative subdivision of the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Obi canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3554958 — 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: Obi Context triple: [Nasarawa State, localGovernmentArea, Obi]
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A.
Obi
Obi is a local government area and town in Benue State, Nigeria, traditionally associated with and inhabited by the Idoma people.
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B.
Baiju
Baiju was a 13th-century Mongol general who led Mongol forces in their campaigns into Eastern Europe.
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C.
Obin
Obin is a surname most notably associated with Haitian painter Philomé Obin and his family of influential artists.
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D.
Ziro
Ziro is a picturesque valley town in northeastern India known for its Apatani tribal culture, rice fields, and the annual Ziro Music Festival.
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E.
Oba
Oba is a Yoruba river orisha revered as one of the wives of the thunder god Shango, associated with marital fidelity, sacrifice, and emotional resilience.
- 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: Obi Target entity description: Obi is a local government area in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, serving as an administrative subdivision of the state.
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A.
Obi
Obi is a local government area and town in Benue State, Nigeria, traditionally associated with and inhabited by the Idoma people.
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B.
Baiju
Baiju was a 13th-century Mongol general who led Mongol forces in their campaigns into Eastern Europe.
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C.
Obin
Obin is a surname most notably associated with Haitian painter Philomé Obin and his family of influential artists.
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D.
Ziro
Ziro is a picturesque valley town in northeastern India known for its Apatani tribal culture, rice fields, and the annual Ziro Music Festival.
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E.
Oba
Oba is a Yoruba river orisha revered as one of the wives of the thunder god Shango, associated with marital fidelity, sacrifice, and emotional resilience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | local government area ⓘ |
| administers |
rural communities in Nasarawa State
ⓘ
towns in Nasarawa State ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Obi (town) ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| governmentType | Local government council ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeFunction |
implementation of state policies at local level
ⓘ
local administration ⓘ local taxation ⓘ provision of basic services ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Obi (town) ⓘ |
| hasCommonLanguages | local Nigerian languages ⓘ |
| hasElectoralRole | constituency for local government elections ⓘ |
| hasExecutiveHead |
Obi Local Government Council
ⓘ
surface form:
Chairman of Obi Local Government Area
|
| hasLegislativeBody | Obi Local Government Council ⓘ |
| hasLevel | third-level administrative division ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasService |
community development programs
ⓘ
local health services ⓘ local road maintenance ⓘ market regulation ⓘ primary education administration ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | Local Government Area ⓘ |
| isAboveAdministrativeDivision | wards ⓘ |
| isBelowAdministrativeDivision | state government of Nasarawa ⓘ |
| isGovernedUnder |
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
ⓘ
laws of Nasarawa State ⓘ |
| isSubdivisionOf | Nasarawa State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Nasarawa State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | North Central Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
West Africa Time (WAT)
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surface form:
West Africa Time
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| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| partOf |
Nigeria
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Republic of Nigeria
|
| subdivisionName | Obi self-link ⓘ |
| subdivisionName1 | Nasarawa State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionName2 | Nigeria ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | Local Government Area ⓘ |
| subdivisionType1 | State ⓘ |
| subdivisionType2 | Country ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | Nigerian naira ⓘ |
| usesLegalSystem | Nigerian legal system ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +1 ⓘ |
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: Obi Description of subject: Obi is a local government area in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, serving as an administrative subdivision of the state.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.