Parakou
E934677
Parakou is a major city in central Benin that serves as an important commercial and transportation hub for the surrounding region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Parakou canonical | 1 |
| Parakou area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11580482 — 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: Parakou Context triple: [Borgu region, hasPart, Parakou]
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A.
Cotonou
Cotonou is the largest city and economic hub of Benin, located on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.
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B.
Biassou
Biassou was a prominent early leader of the Haitian Revolution, known for his role in organizing and directing the initial slave uprisings against French colonial rule.
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C.
Koudougou
Koudougou is a major city in central Burkina Faso known as an important commercial and transportation hub.
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D.
Yamoussoukro
Yamoussoukro is the political capital of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its grand basilica and role as an administrative center in the French-speaking world.
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E.
Bobo-Dioulasso
Bobo-Dioulasso is the second-largest city of Burkina Faso, known as a major economic and cultural center in the country’s southwest.
- 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: Parakou Target entity description: Parakou is a major city in central Benin that serves as an important commercial and transportation hub for the surrounding region.
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A.
Cotonou
Cotonou is the largest city and economic hub of Benin, located on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.
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B.
Biassou
Biassou was a prominent early leader of the Haitian Revolution, known for his role in organizing and directing the initial slave uprisings against French colonial rule.
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C.
Koudougou
Koudougou is a major city in central Burkina Faso known as an important commercial and transportation hub.
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D.
Yamoussoukro
Yamoussoukro is the political capital of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its grand basilica and role as an administrative center in the French-speaking world.
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E.
Bobo-Dioulasso
Bobo-Dioulasso is the second-largest city of Burkina Faso, known as a major economic and cultural center in the country’s southwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
commune ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | commune with special status in Benin ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Borgou Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 9.34°N 2.63°E ⓘ |
| country | Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryCallingCode | +229 ⓘ |
| distanceFromCapital | about 400 km north of Cotonou ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agricultural products marketing
ⓘ
trade ⓘ transport services ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Bariba people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fon people NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoruba people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHospital | Centre Hospitalier Départemental du Borgou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMarket | large central market ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding |
churches
ⓘ
mosques ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure |
Parakou Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
major road junctions ⓘ railway station ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Université de Parakou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| is |
important transportation hub in Benin
ⓘ
major commercial hub in Benin ⓘ |
| localLanguage |
Bariba
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fon NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoruba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Borgou Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | central Benin ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| population | over 200000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| postalCode | BP Parakou ⓘ |
| railConnectedTo | Cotonou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ |
| roadConnectedTo |
Cotonou
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Malanville NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Benin ⓘ |
| roadNetworkRole | gateway between southern and northern Benin ⓘ |
| timeZone |
West Africa Time (WAT)
ⓘ
surface form:
West Africa Time
|
| utcOffset | +1 ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | BK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Parakou Description of subject: Parakou is a major city in central Benin that serves as an important commercial and transportation hub for the surrounding region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Parakou area