Tamale
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Tamale is the largest city in northern Ghana and a major administrative, commercial, and cultural hub for the surrounding region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tamale canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6177936 — 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: Tamale Context triple: [Northern Region, capital, Tamale]
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A.
Menudo
Menudo was a hugely popular Puerto Rican boy band formed in the late 1970s, known for its rotating lineup of young male singers and for launching the careers of several Latin pop stars.
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B.
Pastida
Pastida is a small village on the Greek island of Rhodes, situated inland near the town of Ialysos and known for its traditional character and proximity to the island’s main tourist areas.
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C.
TACO
TACO is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the ACM that focuses on research in computer architecture and code optimization.
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D.
Tejipió
Tejipió is a neighborhood in the city of Recife, Brazil, known as part of the urban fabric of the state capital of Pernambuco.
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E.
Mexican Cocopa
Mexican Cocopa is a regional variety of the Cocopa language spoken by Cocopa communities in northern Mexico.
- 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: Tamale Target entity description: Tamale is the largest city in northern Ghana and a major administrative, commercial, and cultural hub for the surrounding region.
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A.
Menudo
Menudo was a hugely popular Puerto Rican boy band formed in the late 1970s, known for its rotating lineup of young male singers and for launching the careers of several Latin pop stars.
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B.
Pastida
Pastida is a small village on the Greek island of Rhodes, situated inland near the town of Ialysos and known for its traditional character and proximity to the island’s main tourist areas.
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C.
TACO
TACO is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the ACM that focuses on research in computer architecture and code optimization.
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D.
Tejipió
Tejipió is a neighborhood in the city of Recife, Brazil, known as part of the urban fabric of the state capital of Pernambuco.
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E.
Mexican Cocopa
Mexican Cocopa is a regional variety of the Cocopa language spoken by Cocopa communities in northern Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
regional capital ⓘ |
| administrativeCenterFor | Tamale Metropolitan District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| connectsByRoadTo |
Accra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bolgatanga NERFINISHED ⓘ Kumasi NERFINISHED ⓘ Wa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Ghana ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Dagbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceFromAccra | approximately 600 km by road ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agricultural produce marketing
ⓘ
services ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupMajority | Dagomba people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | Tamale Metropolitan Assembly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Tamale Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApproximatePopulation | over 300000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| hasDrySeason | Harmattan season ⓘ |
| hasHealthFacility | Tamale Teaching Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLeaderTitle | Metropolitan Chief Executive ⓘ |
| hasMarket | Tamale Central Market NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSeniorHighSchool |
Northern School of Business
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tamale Girls Senior High School NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamale Senior High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsTeam | Real Tamale United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStadium | Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTeacherTrainingCollege | Tamale College of Education NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | University for Development Studies (Tamale campus) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLargestCityIn | northern Ghana ⓘ |
| isTransportHubFor | northern Ghana ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Islamic architecture and mosques
ⓘ
modern road network ⓘ motorbike use ⓘ |
| languageMajority | Dagbani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageWidelySpoken | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern Region, Ghana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northern Ghana ⓘ |
| nearbyTraditionalCapital | Yendi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionalCapitalOf | Northern Region, Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionMajority | Islam ⓘ |
| role |
administrative hub for northern Ghana
ⓘ
commercial hub for northern Ghana ⓘ cultural hub for northern Ghana ⓘ |
| timeZone | Greenwich Mean Time ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +0 ⓘ |
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: Tamale Description of subject: Tamale is the largest city in northern Ghana and a major administrative, commercial, and cultural hub for the surrounding region.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.