Western Area, Sierra Leone
E593874
Western Area, Sierra Leone is the country’s coastal region that includes the capital Freetown and serves as a major urban, political, and cultural center.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sierra Leone base of the West Africa Squadron | 1 |
| Sierra Leone coast | 1 |
| Sierra Leone coastal region | 1 |
| State House of Sierra Leone | 1 |
| Western Area of Sierra Leone | 1 |
| Western Area, Sierra Leone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6276749 — 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: Western Area, Sierra Leone Context triple: [Krio people, primaryLocation, Western Area, Sierra Leone]
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A.
Northern Province of Sierra Leone
The Northern Province of Sierra Leone is a largely rural administrative region known for its Temne ethnic majority, agriculture-based economy, and role in the country’s political and cultural life.
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B.
Eastern Sierra Leone
Eastern Sierra Leone is a largely rural, resource-rich region of Sierra Leone known for its forests, diamond mining areas, and significant Mende-speaking population.
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C.
Southern Sierra Leone
Southern Sierra Leone is a region of Sierra Leone known for its predominantly Mende population, rich cultural traditions, and largely rural, agricultural communities.
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D.
Northwestern Sierra Leone
Northwestern Sierra Leone is a geographic area of Sierra Leone that serves as a primary homeland and cultural center for the Temne people.
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E.
Kemi, Sierra Leone
Kemi, Sierra Leone is a small settlement in Sierra Leone, likely named after and twinned with the Finnish town of Kemi.
- 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: Western Area, Sierra Leone Target entity description: Western Area, Sierra Leone is the country’s coastal region that includes the capital Freetown and serves as a major urban, political, and cultural center.
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A.
Northern Province of Sierra Leone
The Northern Province of Sierra Leone is a largely rural administrative region known for its Temne ethnic majority, agriculture-based economy, and role in the country’s political and cultural life.
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B.
Eastern Sierra Leone
Eastern Sierra Leone is a largely rural, resource-rich region of Sierra Leone known for its forests, diamond mining areas, and significant Mende-speaking population.
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C.
Southern Sierra Leone
Southern Sierra Leone is a region of Sierra Leone known for its predominantly Mende population, rich cultural traditions, and largely rural, agricultural communities.
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D.
Northwestern Sierra Leone
Northwestern Sierra Leone is a geographic area of Sierra Leone that serves as a primary homeland and cultural center for the Temne people.
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E.
Kemi, Sierra Leone
Kemi, Sierra Leone is a small settlement in Sierra Leone, likely named after and twinned with the Finnish town of Kemi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
first-order administrative division
ⓘ
region ⓘ |
| borders |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Northern Province, Sierra Leone NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Province, Sierra Leone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Aberdeen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cotton Tree (historic landmark in Freetown) NERFINISHED ⓘ Fourah Bay College NERFINISHED ⓘ Freetown NERFINISHED ⓘ Freetown Harbour NERFINISHED ⓘ Freetown Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Kent NERFINISHED ⓘ Lumley Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ Njala University campus (Freetown campus) NERFINISHED ⓘ Parliament of Sierra Leone NERFINISHED ⓘ Sierra Leone National Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Sierra Leone National Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ Sierra Leone’s main international airport region (Lungi area across the estuary) ⓘ Sierra Leone’s main seaport ⓘ Sierra Leone’s national capital ⓘ State House of Sierra Leone NERFINISHED ⓘ Supreme Court of Sierra Leone NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokeh NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Sierra Leone NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Area Rural District NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Area Urban District NERFINISHED ⓘ York NERFINISHED ⓘ central government institutions of Sierra Leone ⓘ major universities of Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| country | Sierra Leone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countrySubdivisionOf | Sierra Leone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dominantLinguaFranca | Krio language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveSeat | Freetown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Freetown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoastline | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicDiversity | high ⓘ |
| hasLargestCity | Freetown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highestUrbanizationLevelIn | Sierra Leone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| judicialSeat | Freetown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legislativeSeat | Freetown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| majorEthnicGroupsInclude |
Krio people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mende people NERFINISHED ⓘ Temne people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| role |
cultural center of Sierra Leone
ⓘ
major urban center of Sierra Leone ⓘ political center of Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| timeZone | Greenwich Mean Time ⓘ |
| utcOffset | UTC+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: Western Area, Sierra Leone Description of subject: Western Area, Sierra Leone is the country’s coastal region that includes the capital Freetown and serves as a major urban, political, and cultural center.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sierra Leone coast
this entity surface form:
State House of Sierra Leone
this entity surface form:
Sierra Leone coastal region
this entity surface form:
Sierra Leone base of the West Africa Squadron
this entity surface form:
Western Area of Sierra Leone