Porto Novo
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Porto Novo is the main port town and administrative center on the island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Porto Novo canonical | 6 |
| Porto Novo ferry port | 1 |
| Porto Novo municipality | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4534973 — 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: Porto Novo Context triple: [Santo Antão, hasMajorTown, Porto Novo]
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A.
Porto-Novo
Porto-Novo is the official capital city of Benin, known for its colonial architecture and role as a political and cultural center in West Africa.
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B.
Ouidah
Ouidah is a coastal city in Benin historically known as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and for its rich Vodun (Voodoo) cultural heritage.
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C.
Cotonou
Cotonou is the largest city and economic hub of Benin, located on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.
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D.
Port of Cotonou
The Port of Cotonou is Benin’s principal seaport and a major West African maritime hub for regional trade and transit.
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E.
Abidjan
Abidjan is a major economic and cultural hub on the southern coast of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its bustling port, modern skyline, and status as one of the largest cities in West Africa.
- 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: Porto Novo Target entity description: Porto Novo is the main port town and administrative center on the island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde.
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A.
Porto-Novo
Porto-Novo is the official capital city of Benin, known for its colonial architecture and role as a political and cultural center in West Africa.
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B.
Ouidah
Ouidah is a coastal city in Benin historically known as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and for its rich Vodun (Voodoo) cultural heritage.
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C.
Cotonou
Cotonou is the largest city and economic hub of Benin, located on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.
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D.
Port of Cotonou
The Port of Cotonou is Benin’s principal seaport and a major West African maritime hub for regional trade and transit.
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E.
Abidjan
Abidjan is a major economic and cultural hub on the southern coast of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its bustling port, modern skyline, and status as one of the largest cities in West Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
port city
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| archipelago | Cape Verde Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Porto Novo Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Cape Verde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryCapital | Praia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryISOCode | CV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | arid climate ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administrative center
ⓘ
maritime gateway to Santo Antão ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection |
ferry to Mindelo
ⓘ
ferry to São Vicente Island ⓘ |
| island | Santo Antão NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Barlavento Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Santo Antão NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | Santo Antão Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoastOf | Santo Antão NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | São Vicente Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOfCountry | Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Porto Novo Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
commerce
ⓘ
port services ⓘ |
| region | Barlavento (Windward) Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
administrative center of Santo Antão
ⓘ
main port town of Santo Antão ⓘ |
| seaPortOn | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timezone | Cabo Verde Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utcOffset | UTC−01:00 ⓘ |
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: Porto Novo Description of subject: Porto Novo is the main port town and administrative center on the island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Porto Novo municipality
this entity surface form:
Porto Novo ferry port
subject surface form:
Barlavento Islands