Kasama
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Kasama is a major town in northern Zambia that serves as the administrative and commercial center of the Northern Province.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kasama canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6974964 — 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: Kasama Context triple: [Tanzania–Zambia Railway, passesThrough, Kasama]
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A.
Kasoa
Kasoa is a rapidly growing urban town in southern Ghana that serves as a major residential and commercial hub on the outskirts of Accra.
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B.
Kasada
Kasada is a traditional Hindu ritual and festival observed by the Tenggerese people of East Java, Indonesia, involving offerings cast into the crater of Mount Bromo.
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C.
Kasaavin
Kasaavin are a mysterious, energy-based alien species from the Doctor Who universe known for their ability to phase through matter and manipulate technology while serving as covert antagonists.
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D.
Kanza
Kanza is another name for the Kaw people, a Native American tribe historically associated with the central plains region of what is now the United States.
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E.
Kunza
Kunza is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Atacameño (Likan Antai) people of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert region.
- 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: Kasama Target entity description: Kasama is a major town in northern Zambia that serves as the administrative and commercial center of the Northern Province.
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A.
Kasoa
Kasoa is a rapidly growing urban town in southern Ghana that serves as a major residential and commercial hub on the outskirts of Accra.
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B.
Kasada
Kasada is a traditional Hindu ritual and festival observed by the Tenggerese people of East Java, Indonesia, involving offerings cast into the crater of Mount Bromo.
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C.
Kasaavin
Kasaavin are a mysterious, energy-based alien species from the Doctor Who universe known for their ability to phase through matter and manipulate technology while serving as covert antagonists.
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D.
Kanza
Kanza is another name for the Kaw people, a Native American tribe historically associated with the central plains region of what is now the United States.
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E.
Kunza
Kunza is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Atacameño (Likan Antai) people of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| administrativeCenterOf | Northern Province, Zambia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Northern Province, Zambia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Zambia ⓘ |
| currencyUsed | Zambian kwacha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 1370 metres ⓘ |
| formerColonyContext | Northern Rhodesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingCountryCapital | Lusaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeStatus |
district capital
ⓘ
provincial capital ⓘ |
| hasAirportIATACode | KAA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAirportICAOCode | FLKS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| hasClimateClassification | Cwa ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLatitude | -10.2167 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | 31.1333 ⓘ |
| hasCountryCode | ZM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | site of World War I operations in Northern Rhodesia ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatus | Kasama Municipal Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyRiver |
Lukulu River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Luombe River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationEstimate | over 200000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 50100 ⓘ |
| hasRailConnectionTo |
Mpika
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nakonde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure |
airport
ⓘ
railway ⓘ trunk road ⓘ |
| isCommercialCenterOf | Northern Province, Zambia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Bemba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Northern Province, Zambia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInDistrict | Kasama District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northern Zambia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Africa Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyAttraction | Chishimba Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Northern Circuit tourism area, Zambia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
trade ⓘ |
| regionType | Northern Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionPresent | Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadConnection | Great North Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBy | Kasama Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +2 ⓘ |
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: Kasama Description of subject: Kasama is a major town in northern Zambia that serves as the administrative and commercial center of the Northern Province.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tanzania–Zambia Railway