Alibori Department
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Alibori Department is the largest and northernmost administrative division of Benin, known for its diverse ethnic groups, agriculture, and border location with Niger and Burkina Faso.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alibori Department canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11580501 — 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: Alibori Department Context triple: [Borgu region, presentIn, Alibori Department]
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A.
Borgou Department
Borgou Department is an administrative region in northeastern Benin known for its diverse ethnic communities, agriculture-based economy, and the major city of Parakou.
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B.
Ouest Department
Ouest Department is an administrative region in western Haiti that includes the capital city, Port-au-Prince, and serves as the country’s political and economic center.
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C.
Ouémé Department
Ouémé Department is an administrative region in southeastern Benin that includes the national capital, Porto-Novo, and is known for its role as a political and economic hub.
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D.
Sud Department
Sud Department is an administrative region in southern Haiti known for its coastal cities, beaches, and agricultural activities.
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E.
Pikine Department
Pikine Department is an administrative division in western Senegal that forms part of the greater Dakar metropolitan area and includes densely populated urban and suburban communities.
- 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: Alibori Department Target entity description: Alibori Department is the largest and northernmost administrative division of Benin, known for its diverse ethnic groups, agriculture, and border location with Niger and Burkina Faso.
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A.
Borgou Department
Borgou Department is an administrative region in northeastern Benin known for its diverse ethnic communities, agriculture-based economy, and the major city of Parakou.
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B.
Ouest Department
Ouest Department is an administrative region in western Haiti that includes the capital city, Port-au-Prince, and serves as the country’s political and economic center.
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C.
Ouémé Department
Ouémé Department is an administrative region in southeastern Benin that includes the national capital, Porto-Novo, and is known for its role as a political and economic hub.
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D.
Sud Department
Sud Department is an administrative region in southern Haiti known for its coastal cities, beaches, and agricultural activities.
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E.
Pikine Department
Pikine Department is an administrative division in western Senegal that forms part of the greater Dakar metropolitan area and includes densely populated urban and suburban communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
border town
ⓘ
city ⓘ department of Benin ⓘ |
| borderFunction | international border area with Niger and Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| bordersWith |
Borgou Department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burkina Faso NERFINISHED ⓘ Niger NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Kandi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | Sudano-Sahelian climate ⓘ |
| containsCity |
Banikoara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gogounou NERFINISHED ⓘ Kandi NERFINISHED ⓘ Karimama NERFINISHED ⓘ Malanville NERFINISHED ⓘ Ségbana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFrom | Borgou Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBorderTown | Malanville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
Bariba people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dendi people NERFINISHED ⓘ Fulani people NERFINISHED ⓘ Songhai people NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoruba people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocalLanguage |
Bariba language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dendi language ⓘ Fulfulde NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoruba language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agriculture
ⓘ
ethnic diversity ⓘ |
| largestAdministrativeDivisionOf | Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| mainCrop |
cotton
ⓘ
maize ⓘ millet ⓘ rice ⓘ sorghum ⓘ |
| mainEconomicActivity | subsistence farming ⓘ |
| mainLivestockActivity | cattle herding ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Republic of Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInCountry | northernmost department of Benin ⓘ |
| timeZone |
West Africa Time (WAT)
ⓘ
surface form:
West Africa Time
|
| traversedByRiver | Niger River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +1 ⓘ |
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: Alibori Department Description of subject: Alibori Department is the largest and northernmost administrative division of Benin, known for its diverse ethnic groups, agriculture, and border location with Niger and Burkina Faso.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.