Elbasan
E469975
Elbasan is a city in central Albania known as an important industrial and transportation hub with historical roots dating back to the Ottoman era.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elbasan canonical | 5 |
| Elbasan region | 1 |
| city of Elbasan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4550952 — 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: Elbasan Context triple: [Durrës, hasRailConnectionTo, Elbasan]
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A.
Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër is a historic stone-built city in southern Albania, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its well-preserved Ottoman-era architecture.
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B.
Pogradec
Pogradec is a town in southeastern Albania known as a lakeside resort and cultural center on the shores of Lake Ohrid.
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C.
Peshkopi
Peshkopi is a small town in northeastern Albania known as a regional center near the border with North Macedonia and the Korab mountain range.
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D.
Vlora
Vlora is a major coastal city and seaport in southwestern Albania, strategically located on the Adriatic Sea.
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E.
Durrës
Durrës is a major port city on the Adriatic coast of Albania, historically significant as a strategic maritime gateway and one of the country’s oldest urban centers.
- 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: Elbasan Target entity description: Elbasan is a city in central Albania known as an important industrial and transportation hub with historical roots dating back to the Ottoman era.
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A.
Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër is a historic stone-built city in southern Albania, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its well-preserved Ottoman-era architecture.
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B.
Pogradec
Pogradec is a town in southeastern Albania known as a lakeside resort and cultural center on the shores of Lake Ohrid.
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C.
Peshkopi
Peshkopi is a small town in northeastern Albania known as a regional center near the border with North Macedonia and the Korab mountain range.
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D.
Vlora
Vlora is a major coastal city and seaport in southwestern Albania, strategically located on the Adriatic Sea.
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E.
Durrës
Durrës is a major port city on the Adriatic coast of Albania, historically significant as a strategic maritime gateway and one of the country’s oldest urban centers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | municipality ⓘ |
| approximateDistanceToTirana | about 35 km southeast ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Elbasan County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 41.1100°N 20.0800°E ⓘ |
| country | Albania ⓘ |
| countryCallingCode | +355 ⓘ |
| distanceTo | Tirana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
cement production
ⓘ
food processing ⓘ metallurgy ⓘ |
| elevation | about 120 m above sea level ⓘ |
| formerName |
Neokastron
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
İlbasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fortificationType | walled city ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite |
Elbasan Castle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King Mosque NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Mary Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustrialComplex | Elbasan Metallurgical Complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsTeam | KF Elbasani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStadium | Elbasan Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Aleksandër Xhuvani University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Illyria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostsEvent | Summer Day Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Albanian ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Albania ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Elbasan County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Shkumbin River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnTransportCorridor |
SH3 highway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tirana–Elbasan road tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Ottoman-era urban core
ⓘ
industrial development during communist period ⓘ |
| partOf | Republic of Albania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | approximately 78,000 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 3001 ⓘ |
| railwayConnection | Durrës–Pogradec railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Central Albania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| SummerDayFestivalStatus | national holiday origin ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| transportFunction |
industrial hub
ⓘ
transportation hub ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | EL ⓘ |
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: Elbasan Description of subject: Elbasan is a city in central Albania known as an important industrial and transportation hub with historical roots dating back to the Ottoman era.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Elbasan region
this entity surface form:
city of Elbasan