Žepa
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Žepa is a small town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina that became known as a UN-declared "safe area" and site of a tragic episode during the Bosnian War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Žepa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4836645 — 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: Žepa Context triple: [United Nations Protection Force, safeArea, Žepa]
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A.
Žabljak
Žabljak is a small mountain town in northern Montenegro known as a major center for outdoor tourism, especially hiking and skiing in the Durmitor region.
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B.
Račak
Račak is a village in Kosovo best known internationally as the site of the 1999 Račak massacre, a pivotal event in the Kosovo conflict.
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C.
Dudinka
Dudinka is a remote Arctic port town in northern Siberia, Russia, serving as a key shipping hub on the Yenisei River and gateway to the Norilsk industrial region.
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D.
Cocijo
Cocijo is the Zapotec rain and storm deity, associated with fertility, lightning, and agricultural abundance in Mesoamerican religion.
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E.
Baška
Baška is a popular coastal town and tourist resort on the island of Krk in Croatia, known for its long pebble beach and historic old town.
- 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: Žepa Target entity description: Žepa is a small town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina that became known as a UN-declared "safe area" and site of a tragic episode during the Bosnian War.
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A.
Žabljak
Žabljak is a small mountain town in northern Montenegro known as a major center for outdoor tourism, especially hiking and skiing in the Durmitor region.
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B.
Račak
Račak is a village in Kosovo best known internationally as the site of the 1999 Račak massacre, a pivotal event in the Kosovo conflict.
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C.
Dudinka
Dudinka is a remote Arctic port town in northern Siberia, Russia, serving as a key shipping hub on the Yenisei River and gateway to the Norilsk industrial region.
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D.
Cocijo
Cocijo is the Zapotec rain and storm deity, associated with fertility, lightning, and agricultural abundance in Mesoamerican religion.
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E.
Baška
Baška is a popular coastal town and tourist resort on the island of Krk in Croatia, known for its long pebble beach and historic old town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
populated place in Bosnia and Herzegovina
ⓘ
settlement ⓘ village ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Fall of Žepa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithLiterature | Ivo Andrić’s works ⓘ |
| bridgeCrosses | Žepa River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bridgeDesign | stone arch bridge ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Army of Republika Srpska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Bosnian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictPeriod | 1992–1995 Bosnian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defendedBy | Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicCleansingContext | Bosnian War atrocities against Bosniaks ⓘ |
| fallOfZepaDate | July 1995 ⓘ |
| governedByPostWarEntity | Republika Srpska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedByPostWarState | Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedByPreWar | Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateRegion | Balkans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemorialType | war memorials ⓘ |
| historicalPopulationMajority | Bosniaks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Bosnian
ⓘ
Serbian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInEntity | Republika Srpska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMunicipality | Rogatica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Žepa River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Goražde
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Višegrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyTown | Srebrenica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStructure | Žepa bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfHistoricalRegion | Bosnia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfRegion | Podrinje NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postWarReturnOfDisplacedPersons | partial ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | Srebrenica genocide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedMassAtrocityContext | Bosnian genocide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionHistoricallyPresent |
Eastern Orthodoxy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
| transportConnection | regional roads of eastern Bosnia ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Drina River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| underSiegeDuring | Bosnian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNProtectionForcePresence | United Nations Protection Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNSafeAreaDeclaredBy | United Nations Security Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNSafeAreaResolution | UN Security Council Resolution 824 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNSafeAreaResolutionDate | 6 May 1993 ⓘ |
| UNStatusDuringBosnianWar | UN-declared safe area ⓘ |
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: Žepa Description of subject: Žepa is a small town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina that became known as a UN-declared "safe area" and site of a tragic episode during the Bosnian War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.