Kingdom of Whydah
E671332
The Kingdom of Whydah was a powerful precolonial West African state on the Slave Coast, known as a major center of the Atlantic slave trade before its conquest by the Kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kingdom of Whydah canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7534344 — 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: Kingdom of Whydah Context triple: [Ouidah, partOf, Kingdom of Whydah]
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A.
River Company of the Caribbean
River Company of the Caribbean is the riverboat shipping firm in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" that employs the protagonist Florentino Ariza.
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B.
The Spanish Main
The Spanish Main is a 1945 swashbuckling adventure film set in the Caribbean, known for its tale of piracy, romance, and high-seas action.
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C.
High Seas Fleet
The High Seas Fleet was the main battle fleet of the Imperial German Navy during World War I, best known for its clashes with the British Royal Navy, including the Battle of Jutland.
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D.
North Sea Empire
The North Sea Empire was a short-lived 11th-century union of the kingdoms of Denmark, England, and Norway under a single monarch, most notably Cnut the Great.
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E.
arms of Nassau
The arms of Nassau are a historic European heraldic emblem featuring a golden lion on a blue field strewn with billets, long associated with the House of Nassau and later the Dutch royal family.
- 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: Kingdom of Whydah Target entity description: The Kingdom of Whydah was a powerful precolonial West African state on the Slave Coast, known as a major center of the Atlantic slave trade before its conquest by the Kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th century.
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A.
River Company of the Caribbean
River Company of the Caribbean is the riverboat shipping firm in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" that employs the protagonist Florentino Ariza.
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B.
The Spanish Main
The Spanish Main is a 1945 swashbuckling adventure film set in the Caribbean, known for its tale of piracy, romance, and high-seas action.
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C.
High Seas Fleet
The High Seas Fleet was the main battle fleet of the Imperial German Navy during World War I, best known for its clashes with the British Royal Navy, including the Battle of Jutland.
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D.
North Sea Empire
The North Sea Empire was a short-lived 11th-century union of the kingdoms of Denmark, England, and Norway under a single monarch, most notably Cnut the Great.
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E.
arms of Nassau
The arms of Nassau are a historic European heraldic emblem featuring a golden lion on a blue field strewn with billets, long associated with the House of Nassau and later the Dutch royal family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
kingdom
ⓘ
precolonial African state ⓘ |
| capital | Savi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coastline | Bight of Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conqueredBy | Kingdom of Dahomey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conquestYear | 1727 ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| currency | cowrie shells ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
palm oil ⓘ slave trade ⓘ |
| EuropeanNameVariant |
Fida
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hueda NERFINISHED ⓘ Juda NERFINISHED ⓘ Whydah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| export |
enslaved Africans
ⓘ
ivory ⓘ pepper ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| hadFortifications | European trading forts ⓘ |
| hadRulerTitle | king ⓘ |
| import |
alcohol
ⓘ
firearms ⓘ metal goods ⓘ textiles ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a major slave-trading center
ⓘ
large slave markets ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Gbe languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn | West Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Slave Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorPort |
Glehue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ouidah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Atlantic slave trade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | local coastal chiefdoms ⓘ |
| presentDayLocation | Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Guinea Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Vodun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West African traditional religion ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | major node in trans-Atlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| successorState | Kingdom of Dahomey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
17th century
ⓘ
early 18th century ⓘ |
| tradedWith |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
France NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Portugal 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: Kingdom of Whydah Description of subject: The Kingdom of Whydah was a powerful precolonial West African state on the Slave Coast, known as a major center of the Atlantic slave trade before its conquest by the Kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.