Yangon
E42684
Yangon is Myanmar’s largest city and former capital, known as a major commercial hub featuring a mix of colonial architecture and prominent Buddhist landmarks like the Shwedagon Pagoda.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yangon canonical | 85 |
| Rangoon | 44 |
| Downtown Yangon | 3 |
| Rangoon, Burma | 3 |
| Yangon metropolitan area | 2 |
| Yangon urban area | 2 |
| Greater Yangon metropolitan area | 1 |
| Rangoon (during certain periods) | 1 |
| Western Yangon | 1 |
| Yangon City | 1 |
| Yangon colonial-era urban core | 1 |
| Yangon industrial zones | 1 |
| Yangon, Myanmar | 1 |
| central Yangon | 1 |
| downtown Yangon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T335829 — 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: Yangon Context triple: [Min Ko Naing, placeOfBirth, Yangon]
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A.
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is a historic city in northern Thailand known for its ancient temples, vibrant night markets, and surrounding mountainous landscapes.
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B.
Bangkok
Bangkok is the vibrant capital and largest city of Thailand, known for its bustling street life, ornate temples, and role as a major economic and cultural hub in Southeast Asia.
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C.
Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city of Mongolia, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
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D.
Nara
Nara is an ancient Japanese city renowned for its early role as a national capital, its historic temples, and its culturally significant deer-filled parks.
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E.
Pyongyang
Pyongyang is the capital and largest city of North Korea, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
- 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: Yangon Target entity description: Yangon is Myanmar’s largest city and former capital, known as a major commercial hub featuring a mix of colonial architecture and prominent Buddhist landmarks like the Shwedagon Pagoda.
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A.
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is a historic city in northern Thailand known for its ancient temples, vibrant night markets, and surrounding mountainous landscapes.
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B.
Bangkok
Bangkok is the vibrant capital and largest city of Thailand, known for its bustling street life, ornate temples, and role as a major economic and cultural hub in Southeast Asia.
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C.
Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city of Mongolia, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
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D.
Nara
Nara is an ancient Japanese city renowned for its early role as a national capital, its historic temples, and its culturally significant deer-filled parks.
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E.
Pyongyang
Pyongyang is the capital and largest city of North Korea, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Yangon Description of subject: Yangon is Myanmar’s largest city and former capital, known as a major commercial hub featuring a mix of colonial architecture and prominent Buddhist landmarks like the Shwedagon Pagoda.
Referenced by (148)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rangoon
this entity surface form:
Rangoon
this entity surface form:
Rangoon
this entity surface form:
Rangoon
this entity surface form:
central Yangon
this entity surface form:
Downtown Yangon
this entity surface form:
Yangon colonial-era urban core
this entity surface form:
Yangon industrial zones
this entity surface form:
Greater Yangon metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
Yangon metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
Yangon City
this entity surface form:
Yangon urban area
this entity surface form:
Western Yangon
this entity surface form:
Rangoon
this entity surface form:
Rangoon
this entity surface form:
Rangoon
this entity surface form:
Rangoon
subject surface form:
Tatmadaw
subject surface form:
State Peace and Development Council
subject surface form:
State Peace and Development Council