Koforidua
E585921
Koforidua is a major city in southern Ghana known as an administrative, commercial, and transportation hub for the Eastern Region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koforidua canonical | 1 |
| Yilo Krobo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6318115 — 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: Koforidua Context triple: [Eastern Region, capital, Koforidua]
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A.
Kumasi
Kumasi is a major city in southern Ghana, known as the historic capital of the Ashanti Kingdom and a key cultural and commercial center in West Africa.
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B.
Mampong
Mampong is a prominent town and municipal center in Ghana known for its historical significance within the Ashanti cultural area and its role as an educational and agricultural hub.
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C.
Takoradi
Takoradi is a coastal city in southwestern Ghana that developed into a key commercial and industrial hub, particularly known for its deep-water seaport and role in regional trade.
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D.
Obuasi
Obuasi is a major Ghanaian mining town renowned for its large gold deposits and historic gold mine.
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E.
Accra
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, known as a major economic, political, and cultural hub in West Africa.
- 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: Koforidua Target entity description: Koforidua is a major city in southern Ghana known as an administrative, commercial, and transportation hub for the Eastern Region.
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A.
Kumasi
Kumasi is a major city in southern Ghana, known as the historic capital of the Ashanti Kingdom and a key cultural and commercial center in West Africa.
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B.
Mampong
Mampong is a prominent town and municipal center in Ghana known for its historical significance within the Ashanti cultural area and its role as an educational and agricultural hub.
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C.
Takoradi
Takoradi is a coastal city in southwestern Ghana that developed into a key commercial and industrial hub, particularly known for its deep-water seaport and role in regional trade.
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D.
Obuasi
Obuasi is a major Ghanaian mining town renowned for its large gold deposits and historic gold mine.
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E.
Accra
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, known as a major economic, political, and cultural hub in West Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionType | municipal district ⓘ |
| administrativeFunction | seat of regional government offices ⓘ |
| climate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Ghana ⓘ |
| countryCapital | Accra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| currency | Ghanaian cedi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographic | ethnically diverse population ⓘ |
| distanceToAccra_km | approximately 80 ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
light manufacturing
ⓘ
services ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| governingCountry | Republic of Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Koforidua Senior High Technical School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Koforidua Technical University NERFINISHED ⓘ Pope John Senior High School and Minor Seminary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMarket | central market ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
intercity bus services
ⓘ
road network ⓘ |
| isRegionalCapitalOf | Eastern Region, Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSeatOf | New Juaben South Municipal Assembly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cocoa production in surrounding areas
ⓘ
fruit and food markets ⓘ nearby waterfalls ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Akan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ewe NERFINISHED ⓘ Ga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eastern Region, Ghana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Ghana ⓘ |
| nearbyAttraction |
Akaa Falls
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boti Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ Obuo Tabri Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Accra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| regionCapitalOf | Eastern Region, Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ traditional African religions ⓘ |
| roadConnection | Accra–Koforidua highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
administrative hub
ⓘ
commercial hub ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Greenwich Mean Time
ⓘ
UTC+0 ⓘ |
| transportFunction | regional road transport node ⓘ |
| urbanStatus | major city in Eastern Region of Ghana ⓘ |
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: Koforidua Description of subject: Koforidua is a major city in southern Ghana known as an administrative, commercial, and transportation hub for the Eastern Region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yilo Krobo