Kampala
E40695
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kampala canonical | 118 |
| Kampala, Uganda | 4 |
| Kampala city centre | 2 |
| Kampala Capital City | 1 |
| Kampala Capital City Authority | 1 |
| Kampala Central Business District | 1 |
| Kampala City | 1 |
| Kampala city | 1 |
| Kampala city center | 1 |
| Kampala metropolitan area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T313814 — 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: Kampala Context triple: [Kampala Amendments, locationOfAdoption, Kampala]
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A.
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub in East Africa.
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B.
Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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C.
Uganda
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa known for its diverse landscapes, abundant wildlife, and location along the equator.
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D.
Lusaka, Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia is the capital and largest city of Zambia, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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E.
Managua
Managua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Managua in Central America.
- 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: Kampala Target entity description: Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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A.
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub in East Africa.
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B.
Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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C.
Uganda
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa known for its diverse landscapes, abundant wildlife, and location along the equator.
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D.
Lusaka, Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia is the capital and largest city of Zambia, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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E.
Managua
Managua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Managua in Central America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Kampala Description of subject: Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
Referenced by (131)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kampala city centre
this entity surface form:
Kampala city centre
this entity surface form:
Kampala Capital City
this entity surface form:
Kampala City
this entity surface form:
Kampala city
this entity surface form:
Kampala, Uganda
this entity surface form:
Kampala, Uganda
subject surface form:
University Council of Makerere University
subject surface form:
Mulago National Referral Hospital