Mocoa
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Mocoa is a small city in southwestern Colombia, known as the administrative and commercial center of the Putumayo region and as a gateway to the Amazon foothills.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mocoa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8308769 — 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: Mocoa Context triple: [Putumayo Department, capital, Mocoa]
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A.
Tumaco
Tumaco is a coastal city and municipality in southwestern Colombia, known for its Afro-Colombian culture, Pacific beaches, and rich pre-Hispanic goldworking heritage.
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B.
Soacha
Soacha is a rapidly growing industrial and residential city in central Colombia, located just southwest of Bogotá in the department of Cundinamarca.
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C.
Yopal
Yopal is a city in eastern Colombia that serves as the main urban and economic center of the Llanos (plains) region in the Casanare Department.
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D.
Sogamoso
Sogamoso is a Colombian city in the Andean region known historically as a major religious and cultural center of the Muisca civilization and today for its industry and mining.
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E.
San José del Guaviare
San José del Guaviare is a Colombian town and municipality known as a gateway to the Amazon, featuring jungle landscapes, rivers, and nearby rock formations and ancient rock art.
- 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: Mocoa Target entity description: Mocoa is a small city in southwestern Colombia, known as the administrative and commercial center of the Putumayo region and as a gateway to the Amazon foothills.
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A.
Tumaco
Tumaco is a coastal city and municipality in southwestern Colombia, known for its Afro-Colombian culture, Pacific beaches, and rich pre-Hispanic goldworking heritage.
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B.
Soacha
Soacha is a rapidly growing industrial and residential city in central Colombia, located just southwest of Bogotá in the department of Cundinamarca.
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C.
Yopal
Yopal is a city in eastern Colombia that serves as the main urban and economic center of the Llanos (plains) region in the Casanare Department.
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D.
Sogamoso
Sogamoso is a Colombian city in the Andean region known historically as a major religious and cultural center of the Muisca civilization and today for its industry and mining.
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E.
San José del Guaviare
San José del Guaviare is a Colombian town and municipality known as a gateway to the Amazon, featuring jungle landscapes, rivers, and nearby rock formations and ancient rock art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality of Colombia ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionLevel | municipality ⓘ |
| climate | tropical rainforest climate ⓘ |
| connectedByRoadTo |
Pasto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Puerto Asís NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Colombia ⓘ |
| departmentCapitalOf | Putumayo Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | Municipal government of Mocoa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountryCode | CO ⓘ |
| hasDisaster | 2017 Mocoa landslide ⓘ |
| isCapitalOf | Putumayo Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Andean-Amazonian foothills
ⓘ
Putumayo Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInGeographicalArea | Amazon foothills of Colombia ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Andes foothills ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southwestern Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| naturalHazard |
floods
ⓘ
landslides ⓘ |
| nearbyRiver | Caquetá River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| partOf | Amazon basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| river | Mocoa River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
administrative center of Putumayo Department
ⓘ
commercial center of Putumayo Department ⓘ gateway to the Amazon foothills ⓘ |
| timeZone | Colombia Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utcOffset | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
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: Mocoa Description of subject: Mocoa is a small city in southwestern Colombia, known as the administrative and commercial center of the Putumayo region and as a gateway to the Amazon foothills.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Southern Colombia