Yatenga Province
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Yatenga Province is an administrative region in northern Burkina Faso known historically as a center of the Mossi kingdoms, with Ouahigouya as its capital.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yatenga Province canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10176591 — 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: Yatenga Province Context triple: [Ouahigouya, locatedInAdministrativeTerritory, Yatenga Province]
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A.
Ngounié Province
Ngounié Province is an inland administrative region in southwestern Gabon known for its forests, rivers, and ethnolinguistic diversity.
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B.
Boulgou Province
Boulgou Province is an administrative region in southeastern Burkina Faso known for its agricultural activities and the town of Tenkodogo as a key local center.
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C.
Ménaka Region
Ménaka Region is an administrative region in eastern Mali, known for its predominantly Tuareg and other pastoralist communities and its location in the Sahel near the Niger border.
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D.
Wele-Nzas Province
Wele-Nzas Province is an inland province of Equatorial Guinea, known for its forested terrain and for containing the country’s administrative capital, Ciudad de la Paz.
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E.
Kayes Region
Kayes Region is a large administrative region in western Mali known for its hot climate, mining activities, and position along key transport routes linking Mali to Senegal.
- 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: Yatenga Province Target entity description: Yatenga Province is an administrative region in northern Burkina Faso known historically as a center of the Mossi kingdoms, with Ouahigouya as its capital.
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A.
Ngounié Province
Ngounié Province is an inland administrative region in southwestern Gabon known for its forests, rivers, and ethnolinguistic diversity.
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B.
Boulgou Province
Boulgou Province is an administrative region in southeastern Burkina Faso known for its agricultural activities and the town of Tenkodogo as a key local center.
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C.
Ménaka Region
Ménaka Region is an administrative region in eastern Mali, known for its predominantly Tuareg and other pastoralist communities and its location in the Sahel near the Niger border.
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D.
Wele-Nzas Province
Wele-Nzas Province is an inland province of Equatorial Guinea, known for its forested terrain and for containing the country’s administrative capital, Ciudad de la Paz.
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E.
Kayes Region
Kayes Region is a large administrative region in western Mali known for its hot climate, mining activities, and position along key transport routes linking Mali to Senegal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative division
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province ⓘ |
| administrativeLevel | first-level subdivision of Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| bordersCountry | Mali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderType | international border with Mali ⓘ |
| callingCodeCountry | +226 ⓘ |
| capital | Ouahigouya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid ⓘ |
| country | Burkina Faso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryCapitalDistance | Ouagadougou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| currency | West African CFA franc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| currencyCode | XOF ⓘ |
| demographicsCharacteristic | predominantly rural population ⓘ |
| drivingSide | right ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mossi people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerColonialPower | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | provincial authorities of Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| hasCity | Ouahigouya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage |
Mossi royal traditions
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traditional Mossi chieftaincies ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
livestock raising ⓘ small-scale trade ⓘ |
| hasReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ traditional African religions ⓘ |
| hasSettlement | Ouahigouya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransport | road network connecting to Ouagadougou ⓘ |
| historicallyKnownAs | Yatenga Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegionOf | Mossi kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | center of a major Mossi kingdom ⓘ |
| ISO3166-2 | BF-YAT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Mooré NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalSystem | Burkinabé law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northern Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | Nord Region of Burkina Faso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Sahel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Nord Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionType | landlocked ⓘ |
| seat | Ouahigouya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sovereignState | Burkina Faso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Greenwich Mean Time
ⓘ
UTC+0 ⓘ |
| traditionalCapital | Ouahigouya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Yatenga Province Description of subject: Yatenga Province is an administrative region in northern Burkina Faso known historically as a center of the Mossi kingdoms, with Ouahigouya as its capital.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.