Annaba, Algeria
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Annaba, Algeria is a coastal city in northeastern Algeria best known as the modern location of ancient Hippo Regius, where Saint Augustine served as bishop.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Annaba | 3 |
| Annaba, Algeria canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6259176 — 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: Annaba, Algeria Context triple: [Bishop of Hippo Regius, locatedInPresentDay, Annaba, Algeria]
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A.
El Azizia, Algeria
El Azizia is a small town in Algeria notable as the birthplace of prominent diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi.
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B.
Benslimane
Benslimane is a town and provincial capital in northwestern Morocco, known for its forests and proximity to Casablanca.
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C.
Tahannaout
Tahannaout is a small town in central Morocco that serves as an administrative and market hub for the surrounding rural communities in the foothills of the High Atlas Mountains.
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D.
El Telagh, Algeria
El Telagh, Algeria is a small town in northwestern Algeria known as the birthplace of Olympic marathon champion Alain Mimoun.
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E.
Tindouf
Tindouf is a remote town in southwestern Algeria known as the base of the Polisario Front and the site of large Sahrawi refugee camps.
- 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: Annaba, Algeria Target entity description: Annaba, Algeria is a coastal city in northeastern Algeria best known as the modern location of ancient Hippo Regius, where Saint Augustine served as bishop.
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A.
El Azizia, Algeria
El Azizia is a small town in Algeria notable as the birthplace of prominent diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi.
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B.
Benslimane
Benslimane is a town and provincial capital in northwestern Morocco, known for its forests and proximity to Casablanca.
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C.
Tahannaout
Tahannaout is a small town in central Morocco that serves as an administrative and market hub for the surrounding rural communities in the foothills of the High Atlas Mountains.
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D.
El Telagh, Algeria
El Telagh, Algeria is a small town in northwestern Algeria known as the birthplace of Olympic marathon champion Alain Mimoun.
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E.
Tindouf
Tindouf is a remote town in southwestern Algeria known as the base of the Polisario Front and the site of large Sahrawi refugee camps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| administrativeDivision | Annaba Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ancientProvince |
Numidia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coast | Mediterranean coast of Algeria ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Algeria ⓘ |
| demonym | Annabi ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
petrochemicals
ⓘ
phosphate export ⓘ steel industry ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| elevation | sea level to surrounding hills ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Rabah Bitat Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| hasFeature | beaches ⓘ |
| hasHarborFunction |
commercial port
ⓘ
fishing port ⓘ passenger port ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalName |
Hippo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hippo Regius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Basilica of Saint Augustine (Annaba)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hippo Regius ruins NERFINISHED ⓘ Seraïdi (mountain village above Annaba) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPort | Port of Annaba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Islam ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Badji Mokhtar University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCapitalOf | Annaba Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isModernLocationOf | Hippo Regius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Arabic
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| locatedAtMouthOf | Seybouse River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northeastern Algeria ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| nearAncientSite | Hippo Regius archaeological site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePersonAssociated | Saint Augustine of Hippo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railConnection |
Algiers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tunis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Maghreb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousHeritage |
Catholic Church
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadConnection |
Constantine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guelma NERFINISHED ⓘ Skikda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Time
ⓘ
UTC+1 ⓘ |
| urbanType | coastal city ⓘ |
| wasEpiscopalSeeOf | Saint Augustine of Hippo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Annaba, Algeria Description of subject: Annaba, Algeria is a coastal city in northeastern Algeria best known as the modern location of ancient Hippo Regius, where Saint Augustine served as bishop.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Annaba
this entity surface form:
Annaba
this entity surface form:
Annaba