Perak
E39332
Perak is a Malaysian state on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, historically known for its rich tin deposits and former status as a key sultanate within British Malaya.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perak canonical | 81 |
| state of Perak | 2 |
| Perak (Malay state) | 1 |
| Perak Aman Jaya | 1 |
| Perak state | 1 |
| Perak, Federated Malay States | 1 |
| Sitiawan, Perak, British Malaya | 1 |
| State of Perak | 1 |
| northwestern Peninsular Malaysia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T304700 — 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: Perak Context triple: [British Malaya, hasPart, Perak]
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A.
Sarawak
Sarawak is a resource-rich Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, known for its diverse indigenous cultures, extensive rainforests, and long history under the rule of the White Rajahs before joining Malaysia.
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B.
Malaysia
Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country on the Malay Peninsula and parts of Borneo, known for its multicultural society, tropical rainforests, and rapidly developing economy.
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C.
Johor Sultanate
The Johor Sultanate was a powerful Malay maritime kingdom that emerged in the 16th century as a successor to the Malacca Sultanate, dominating trade and politics in the southern Malay Peninsula and surrounding regions.
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D.
Tanjung Perak
Tanjung Perak is a major seaport in Surabaya, Indonesia, serving as one of the country’s principal maritime gateways for trade and passenger traffic.
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E.
Borneo
Borneo is the world’s third-largest island in Southeast Asia, known for its vast rainforests, rich biodiversity, and division among Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei.
- 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: Perak Target entity description: Perak is a Malaysian state on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, historically known for its rich tin deposits and former status as a key sultanate within British Malaya.
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A.
Sarawak
Sarawak is a resource-rich Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, known for its diverse indigenous cultures, extensive rainforests, and long history under the rule of the White Rajahs before joining Malaysia.
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B.
Malaysia
Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country on the Malay Peninsula and parts of Borneo, known for its multicultural society, tropical rainforests, and rapidly developing economy.
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C.
Johor Sultanate
The Johor Sultanate was a powerful Malay maritime kingdom that emerged in the 16th century as a successor to the Malacca Sultanate, dominating trade and politics in the southern Malay Peninsula and surrounding regions.
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D.
Tanjung Perak
Tanjung Perak is a major seaport in Surabaya, Indonesia, serving as one of the country’s principal maritime gateways for trade and passenger traffic.
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E.
Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula is a long, narrow landmass in Southeast Asia that separates the Andaman Sea from the South China Sea and encompasses parts of modern-day Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Perak Description of subject: Perak is a Malaysian state on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, historically known for its rich tin deposits and former status as a key sultanate within British Malaya.
Referenced by (90)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
State of Perak
subject surface form:
Kellie’s Castle