COP17
E504569
COP17 was the 17th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Durban, South Africa in 2011 to negotiate global agreements on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| COP17 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5238129 — 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: COP17 Context triple: [COP16, followedBy, COP17]
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A.
COP18
COP18 was the 18th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, held in Doha, Qatar in 2012, where countries negotiated and advanced international climate change commitments.
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B.
COP16
COP16 is the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Cancún, Mexico, where countries negotiated international agreements to address global climate change.
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C.
Conference of the Parties
The Conference of the Parties is the main governing body where member countries to CITES meet to review implementation, adopt decisions, and set international rules on trade in endangered species.
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D.
21st Conference of the Parties
The 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) was the pivotal 2015 UN climate summit in Paris where nearly all countries negotiated the landmark global accord to limit climate change.
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E.
COP21
COP21 was the pivotal 2015 United Nations climate conference in Paris at which the landmark Paris Agreement on limiting global warming was adopted.
- 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: COP17 Target entity description: COP17 was the 17th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Durban, South Africa in 2011 to negotiate global agreements on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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A.
COP18
COP18 was the 18th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, held in Doha, Qatar in 2012, where countries negotiated and advanced international climate change commitments.
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B.
COP16
COP16 is the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Cancún, Mexico, where countries negotiated international agreements to address global climate change.
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C.
Conference of the Parties
The Conference of the Parties is the main governing body where member countries to CITES meet to review implementation, adopt decisions, and set international rules on trade in endangered species.
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D.
21st Conference of the Parties
The 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) was the pivotal 2015 UN climate summit in Paris where nearly all countries negotiated the landmark global accord to limit climate change.
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E.
COP21
COP21 was the pivotal 2015 United Nations climate conference in Paris at which the landmark Paris Agreement on limiting global warming was adopted.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United Nations Climate Change Conference
ⓘ
international climate change conference ⓘ |
| aimedAt |
negotiating a future global climate agreement
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reducing global greenhouse gas emissions ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference
NERFINISHED
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Durban Climate Change Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Durban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| endTime | 2011-12-11 ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
adaptation to climate change
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climate finance ⓘ long-term cooperative action on climate change ⓘ technology transfer for climate mitigation and adaptation ⓘ |
| followedBy | COP18 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | COP16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue |
climate change
ⓘ
global warming ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | United Nations official languages ⓘ |
| hasOrdinalNumber | 17 ⓘ |
| hasOutcome | agreement to negotiate a new legally binding climate treaty applicable to all parties ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
intergovernmental organizations
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non-governmental organizations ⓘ parties to the UNFCCC ⓘ |
| hasTopic |
Durban Platform for Enhanced Action
NERFINISHED
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Kyoto Protocol NERFINISHED ⓘ United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostCity | Durban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostCountry | South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedBy | Government of South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | annual UN climate conferences ⓘ |
| locationOf | negotiations on a post-2012 climate regime ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
climate change mitigation
ⓘ
global climate policy ⓘ greenhouse gas emissions reduction ⓘ |
| negotiationContext |
Kyoto Protocol second commitment period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UNFCCC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizedBy | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | UN climate change negotiation process ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 2011 ⓘ |
| precededByEventInSameCity | none ⓘ |
| result | Durban Platform for Enhanced Action NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | COP17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 2011-11-28 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | international climate diplomacy ⓘ |
| venueCity | Durban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: COP17 Description of subject: COP17 was the 17th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Durban, South Africa in 2011 to negotiate global agreements on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.