Avlona
E482228
Avlona is the historical name of the coastal Albanian city now known as Vlora, an important port and cultural center on the Adriatic Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avlona canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4960577 — 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: Avlona Context triple: [Vlora, historicalName, Avlona]
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A.
Vacalea
Vacalea is a small rural village located on Kadavu Island in Fiji.
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B.
Velia
Velia was an important ancient Greek coastal city in Lucania, southern Italy, known for its role as a philosophical center of the Eleatic school.
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C.
Aegiale
Aegiale is a figure from Greek mythology, known as one of the Heliades, the daughters of the sun god Helios.
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D.
Aleosan
Aleosan is a rural municipality in the province of North Cotabato on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its agricultural economy and diverse local communities.
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E.
Palaonda
Palaonda is an indoor ice arena in Bolzano, Italy, primarily used for ice hockey and other sporting and entertainment events.
- 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: Avlona Target entity description: Avlona is the historical name of the coastal Albanian city now known as Vlora, an important port and cultural center on the Adriatic Sea.
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A.
Vacalea
Vacalea is a small rural village located on Kadavu Island in Fiji.
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B.
Velia
Velia was an important ancient Greek coastal city in Lucania, southern Italy, known for its role as a philosophical center of the Eleatic school.
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C.
Aegiale
Aegiale is a figure from Greek mythology, known as one of the Heliades, the daughters of the sun god Helios.
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D.
Aleosan
Aleosan is a rural municipality in the province of North Cotabato on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its agricultural economy and diverse local communities.
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E.
Palaonda
Palaonda is an indoor ice arena in Bolzano, Italy, primarily used for ice hockey and other sporting and entertainment events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical city name
ⓘ
toponym ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Albanian national movement ⓘ |
| associatedWithFunction |
fishing port
ⓘ
naval base ⓘ |
| associatedWithModernEntity | Municipality of Vlorë NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithSea | Bay of Vlora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryInHistoricalContext |
Kingdom of Albania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Avlonas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Valona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTransliteration | Aulona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
commercial hub
ⓘ
cultural center ⓘ port city ⓘ |
| historicalNameOf | Vlora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Albania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southwestern Albania ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | Adriatic Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernName | Vlora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfHistoricalRegion | Epirus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedByName | Vlora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
Adriatic maritime trade route
ⓘ
entrance to Otranto Strait ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfCommonUse | pre-20th century ⓘ |
| usedByLanguageCommunity |
Greek
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ Latin ⓘ |
| usedInHistoricalSources |
classical antiquity
ⓘ
medieval period ⓘ |
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: Avlona Description of subject: Avlona is the historical name of the coastal Albanian city now known as Vlora, an important port and cultural center on the Adriatic Sea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.