Accra
E68377
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, known as a major economic, political, and cultural hub in West Africa.
All labels observed (14)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Accra canonical | 150 |
| Accra, Ghana | 8 |
| Accra Metropolitan Area | 3 |
| Accra metropolitan area | 2 |
| Accra urban area | 2 |
| 42 Accra | 1 |
| Accra Central Business District | 1 |
| Accra Ga | 1 |
| Accra Metropolis | 1 |
| Accra Metropolitan Assembly | 1 |
| Accra Metropolitan area | 1 |
| Accra central business district | 1 |
| Accra city centre | 1 |
| Old Accra | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T540178 — 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: Accra Context triple: [West Africa, hasMajorCity, Accra]
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A.
Abidjan
Abidjan is a major economic and cultural hub on the southern coast of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its bustling port, modern skyline, and status as one of the largest cities in West Africa.
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B.
Malabo
Malabo is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
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C.
Libreville
Libreville is the largest city and main economic and cultural center of Gabon, located on the country’s Atlantic coast.
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D.
Monrovia
Monrovia is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Liberia, located on the Atlantic coast in West Africa.
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E.
Brazzaville
Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo, located on the Congo River directly across from Kinshasa in Central Africa.
- 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: Accra Target entity description: Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, known as a major economic, political, and cultural hub in West Africa.
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A.
Abidjan
Abidjan is a major economic and cultural hub on the southern coast of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its bustling port, modern skyline, and status as one of the largest cities in West Africa.
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B.
Malabo
Malabo is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
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C.
Libreville
Libreville is the largest city and main economic and cultural center of Gabon, located on the country’s Atlantic coast.
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D.
Monrovia
Monrovia is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Liberia, located on the Atlantic coast in West Africa.
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E.
Brazzaville
Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo, located on the Congo River directly across from Kinshasa in Central Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Accra Description of subject: Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, known as a major economic, political, and cultural hub in West Africa.
Referenced by (174)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tema
this entity surface form:
42 Accra
subject surface form:
Winneba
this entity surface form:
Accra, Ghana