Gostivar
E671078
Gostivar is a city in northwestern North Macedonia, known for its diverse population and location near the source of the Vardar River at the foot of the Šar Mountains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gostivar canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7542228 — 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: Gostivar Context triple: [Vardar River, flowsThroughCity, Gostivar]
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A.
Viminacium
Viminacium was a major Roman city and military camp on the Danube, located in the province of Moesia (in present-day Serbia), known for its strategic importance and extensive archaeological remains.
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B.
Prilep
Prilep is a historic city in present-day North Macedonia known for its medieval fortresses, Ottoman-era architecture, and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
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C.
Nikšić
Nikšić is one of the largest cities in Montenegro, known as an important industrial, cultural, and educational center of the country.
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D.
Kumanovo
Kumanovo is a city in northern North Macedonia known for its historical significance and as the site where the 1999 Kumanovo Agreement ending the Kosovo War was signed.
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E.
Supetar
Supetar is the main port and largest town on the Croatian island of Brač, known for its Adriatic seaside setting and role as a local tourism and transport hub.
- 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: Gostivar Target entity description: Gostivar is a city in northwestern North Macedonia, known for its diverse population and location near the source of the Vardar River at the foot of the Šar Mountains.
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A.
Viminacium
Viminacium was a major Roman city and military camp on the Danube, located in the province of Moesia (in present-day Serbia), known for its strategic importance and extensive archaeological remains.
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B.
Prilep
Prilep is a historic city in present-day North Macedonia known for its medieval fortresses, Ottoman-era architecture, and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
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C.
Nikšić
Nikšić is one of the largest cities in Montenegro, known as an important industrial, cultural, and educational center of the country.
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D.
Kumanovo
Kumanovo is a city in northern North Macedonia known for its historical significance and as the site where the 1999 Kumanovo Agreement ending the Kosovo War was signed.
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E.
Supetar
Supetar is the main port and largest town on the Croatian island of Brač, known for its Adriatic seaside setting and role as a local tourism and transport hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| climateClassification | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country | North Macedonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceTo | about 66 km southwest of Skopje ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 530 metres ⓘ |
| governingBody | Municipality of Gostivar Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | +389 42 ⓘ |
| hasCoOfficialLanguage | Albanian ⓘ |
| hasDemonym | Gostivarian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicCommunity |
Albanians
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bosniaks NERFINISHED ⓘ Macedonians NERFINISHED ⓘ Roma NERFINISHED ⓘ Turks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Central Mosque of Gostivar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Church of the Virgin Mary in Gostivar NERFINISHED ⓘ Clock Tower of Gostivar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMayor | Arben Taravari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAttraction |
Mavrovo National Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vardar River spring near Vrutok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | Macedonian ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://gostivari.gov.mk ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | around 35000 ⓘ |
| hasPopulationAsOf | 2021 ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 1230 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicSector |
agriculture
ⓘ
light industry ⓘ services ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| hasReligiousCommunity |
Muslims
ⓘ
Orthodox Christians ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffset | +01:00 ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffsetDST | +02:00 ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Polog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSeatOf | Gostivar Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedAtFootOf | Šar Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northwestern North Macedonia ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Polog Statistical Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | source of the Vardar River ⓘ |
| locatedOnTransportCorridor | European route E65 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearMountainRange |
Bistra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Šar Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traversedByRiver | Vardar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | Macedonian denar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | GV 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: Gostivar Description of subject: Gostivar is a city in northwestern North Macedonia, known for its diverse population and location near the source of the Vardar River at the foot of the Šar Mountains.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Polog Valley