Kedah
E41239
Kedah is a state in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, historically significant as one of the oldest Malay kingdoms and once part of British Malaya.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kedah canonical | 42 |
| Kedah Darul Aman | 3 |
| State of Kedah | 3 |
| state of Kedah | 2 |
| Kedah is Malaysia’s primary rice-producing region | 1 |
| Kedah state | 1 |
| Kuala Kedah | 1 |
| northeast Kedah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T304705 — 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: Kedah Context triple: [British Malaya, hasPart, Kedah]
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A.
Pahang
Pahang is a large Malaysian state on the eastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, known for its extensive rainforests, highlands like Cameron Highlands, and long South China Sea coastline.
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B.
Negeri Sembilan
Negeri Sembilan is a state in western Peninsular Malaysia known for its Minangkabau cultural heritage and distinctive traditional architecture.
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C.
Perak
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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D.
Selangor
Selangor is a highly developed and populous state on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia that surrounds the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.
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E.
Johor
Johor is a state in southern Peninsular Malaysia known for its strategic location bordering Singapore, diverse economy, and rich Malay cultural heritage.
- 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: Kedah Target entity description: Kedah is a state in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, historically significant as one of the oldest Malay kingdoms and once part of British Malaya.
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A.
Pahang
Pahang is a large Malaysian state on the eastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, known for its extensive rainforests, highlands like Cameron Highlands, and long South China Sea coastline.
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B.
Negeri Sembilan
Negeri Sembilan is a state in western Peninsular Malaysia known for its Minangkabau cultural heritage and distinctive traditional architecture.
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C.
Perak
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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D.
Selangor
Selangor is a highly developed and populous state on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia that surrounds the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.
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E.
Johor
Johor is a state in southern Peninsular Malaysia known for its strategic location bordering Singapore, diverse economy, and rich Malay cultural heritage.
- 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: Kedah Description of subject: Kedah is a state in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, historically significant as one of the oldest Malay kingdoms and once part of British Malaya.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
northeast Kedah