Soussa
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Soussa is an alternative name for Sousse, a major historic port city on Tunisia’s eastern Mediterranean coast known for its medina and tourism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Soussa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5968221 — 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: Soussa Context triple: [Sousse, alternativeName, Soussa]
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A.
Chenoua
Chenoua is a Berber (Amazigh) language variety spoken by the Chenoua people in northern Algeria.
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B.
El Haouaria
El Haouaria is a coastal town in northeastern Tunisia known for its strategic location at the tip of the Cap Bon peninsula and its traditional falconry.
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C.
Youssoufia
Youssoufia is a Moroccan city known for its phosphate mining industry and its location within the Marrakesh-Safi region.
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D.
Zouerate
Zouerate is an iron-mining town in northern Mauritania that has served as an important industrial center and historical focal point in the Western Sahara conflict.
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E.
Béja
Béja is a historic city in northwestern Tunisia known for its agricultural importance and Roman-era heritage.
- 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: Soussa Target entity description: Soussa is an alternative name for Sousse, a major historic port city on Tunisia’s eastern Mediterranean coast known for its medina and tourism.
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A.
Chenoua
Chenoua is a Berber (Amazigh) language variety spoken by the Chenoua people in northern Algeria.
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B.
El Haouaria
El Haouaria is a coastal town in northeastern Tunisia known for its strategic location at the tip of the Cap Bon peninsula and its traditional falconry.
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C.
Youssoufia
Youssoufia is a Moroccan city known for its phosphate mining industry and its location within the Marrakesh-Safi region.
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D.
Zouerate
Zouerate is an iron-mining town in northern Mauritania that has served as an important industrial center and historical focal point in the Western Sahara conflict.
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E.
Béja
Béja is a historic city in northwestern Tunisia known for its agricultural importance and Roman-era heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
port city ⓘ |
| alternativeNameOf | Sousse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | hot-summer Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Tunisia ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Phoenicians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 9th century BC ⓘ |
| hasAirportAccess | Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic medina
ⓘ
port ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | UNESCO World Heritage Site (Medina of Sousse) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Great Mosque of Sousse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kasbah of Sousse NERFINISHED ⓘ Ribat of Sousse NERFINISHED ⓘ Sousse Archaeological Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPortType |
commercial port
ⓘ
tourist port ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationAppliesTo | Medina of Sousse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Byzantine period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carthaginian period NERFINISHED ⓘ Islamic period ⓘ Phoenician period NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalName |
Hadrumetum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hadrumetum (Carthaginian era) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hadrumetum (Roman era) NERFINISHED ⓘ Susa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCapitalOf | Sousse Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
beaches
ⓘ
historic architecture ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Arabic
ⓘ
French ⓘ Tunisian Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern coast of Tunisia ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Monastir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tunis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Maghreb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSector |
commerce
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| region | Sousse Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionMajority | Islam ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| transport | rail connections to Tunis and Sfax ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +1 ⓘ |
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: Soussa Description of subject: Soussa is an alternative name for Sousse, a major historic port city on Tunisia’s eastern Mediterranean coast known for its medina and tourism.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.