Ilorin

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Ilorin is a major city in western Nigeria and the capital of Kwara State, known as a historic Yoruba and Islamic cultural center.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Ilorin canonical 37
Ilorin metropolitan area 2
Ilorin, Kwara State 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
state capital
administrativeStatus Local Government Area headquarters
airportIATA ILR
capitalOf Kwara State
climate tropical wet and dry climate
connectedByHighway A1 highway (Nigeria)
A2 highway (Nigeria)
country Nigeria
demographicsMajorEthnicGroup Yoruba
demographicsSignificantEthnicGroup Fulani
Hausa people
surface form: Hausa

Nupe
foundedBy Yoruba people
foundingCentury 18th century
hasAirport Ilorin International Airport
hasCollege College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies, Ilorin
hasLocalGovernmentArea Ilorin East
Ilorin South
Ilorin West
hasPolytechnic Kwara State Polytechnic
hasStadium Kwara State Stadium
hasUniversity Al-Hikmah University
University of Ilorin
historicalAffiliation Oyo Empire
Sokoto Caliphate
isTransportHubFor road transport in Kwara State
knownFor Islamic scholarship
Yoruba culture
metalworking
pottery
traditional Islamic schools
weaving
languageMajor Yoruba
languageWidelySpoken English
Hausa
locatedIn Kwara State
locatedInGeopoliticalZone North Central
locatedInRegion North Central Nigeria
Western Nigeria
notableInstitution University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital
regionEconomicActivity agriculture
commerce
light manufacturing
religionMajority Islam
religionSignificant Christianity
river Asa River
sportsPopular football
timeZone West Africa Time (WAT)
surface form: West Africa Time
utcOffset +1

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: Ilorin
Description of subject: Ilorin is a major city in western Nigeria and the capital of Kwara State, known as a historic Yoruba and Islamic cultural center.

Referenced by (40)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kwara State capital Ilorin
Kwara State largestCity Ilorin
Yoruba people majorCity Ilorin
Lokoja hasRoadConnectionTo Ilorin
Central Nigeria majorCity Ilorin
Ado-Ekiti roadConnection Ilorin
Air Peace cityServed Ilorin
Bukola Saraki (former member) residence Ilorin
subject surface form: Bukola Saraki
this entity surface form: Ilorin, Kwara State
Ogbomoso nearbyCity Ilorin
West Central State capital Ilorin
Asa stateCapital Ilorin
Isin hasStateCapital Ilorin
Ilorin East partOf Ilorin
this entity surface form: Ilorin metropolitan area
Ilorin East stateCapital Ilorin
Ilorin West partOf Ilorin
Ilorin South partOf Ilorin
Ilorin South partOfMetropolitanArea Ilorin
this entity surface form: Ilorin metropolitan area
ILR servesCity Ilorin
ILR locatedIn Ilorin
ILR serves Ilorin
subject surface form: Ilorin International Airport