Calabar
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Calabar is a historic port city in southeastern Nigeria known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its vibrant cultural festivals.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calabar canonical | 52 |
| Calabar Port | 2 |
| Calabar metropolis | 2 |
| Calabar Municipal | 1 |
| Calabar seaport | 1 |
| Calabar tourism circuit | 1 |
| Calabar waterfront | 1 |
| Old Calabar | 1 |
| Old Calabar area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T658875 — 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: Calabar Context triple: [Eastern Nigeria, containsCity, Calabar]
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A.
Yenagoa
Yenagoa is the capital city of Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria, located in the oil-rich Niger Delta region.
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B.
Ikorodu
Ikorodu is a rapidly growing suburban city and local government area in the northeastern part of Lagos State, Nigeria, known for its residential communities and emerging commercial activity.
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C.
Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
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D.
Egba
Egba is a prominent subgroup of the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria, historically centered around the city of Abeokuta and known for its rich cultural and political heritage.
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E.
Ikwerre
Ikwerre is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Ikwerre people in Rivers State, Nigeria, particularly in and around Port Harcourt.
- 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: Calabar Target entity description: Calabar is a historic port city in southeastern Nigeria known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its vibrant cultural festivals.
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A.
Yenagoa
Yenagoa is the capital city of Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria, located in the oil-rich Niger Delta region.
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B.
Ikorodu
Ikorodu is a rapidly growing suburban city and local government area in the northeastern part of Lagos State, Nigeria, known for its residential communities and emerging commercial activity.
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C.
Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
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D.
Egba
Egba is a prominent subgroup of the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria, historically centered around the city of Abeokuta and known for its rich cultural and political heritage.
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E.
Ikwerre
Ikwerre is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Ikwerre people in Rivers State, Nigeria, particularly in and around Port Harcourt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Calabar Description of subject: Calabar is a historic port city in southeastern Nigeria known for its role in the transatlantic slave trade and its vibrant cultural festivals.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Calabar metropolis
this entity surface form:
Calabar waterfront