Surabaya
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Surabaya is Indonesia’s second-largest city and a key commercial and industrial hub on the island of Java, historically serving as one of the region’s most important seaports.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surabaya canonical | 151 |
| City of Surabaya | 1 |
| Kota Surabaya | 1 |
| Port of Surabaya area | 1 |
| Surabaya (east) | 1 |
| Surabaya City Government | 1 |
| city of Surabaya | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T50662 — 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: Surabaya Context triple: [Dutch East Indies, majorPort, Surabaya]
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A.
Batavia
Batavia was the principal colonial capital of the Dutch East Indies, located on the site of present-day Jakarta in Indonesia.
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B.
Osaka
Osaka is Japan's third-largest city and a major economic, cultural, and historical hub known for its vibrant street food, bustling nightlife, and role as a commercial center in the Kansai region.
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C.
Guangzhou
Guangzhou is a major port city in southern China and the capital of Guangdong Province, known as a key commercial and manufacturing hub in the Pearl River Delta.
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D.
Indonesia
Indonesia is a large Southeast Asian nation made up of thousands of islands, known for its diverse cultures, significant natural resources, and status as one of the world’s largest emerging economies.
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E.
Manila
Manila is the capital city of the Philippines, a historic and densely populated coastal metropolis that has long served as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
- 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: Surabaya Target entity description: Surabaya is Indonesia’s second-largest city and a key commercial and industrial hub on the island of Java, historically serving as one of the region’s most important seaports.
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A.
Batavia
Batavia was the principal colonial capital of the Dutch East Indies, located on the site of present-day Jakarta in Indonesia.
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B.
Osaka
Osaka is Japan's third-largest city and a major economic, cultural, and historical hub known for its vibrant street food, bustling nightlife, and role as a commercial center in the Kansai region.
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C.
Guangzhou
Guangzhou is a major port city in southern China and the capital of Guangdong Province, known as a key commercial and manufacturing hub in the Pearl River Delta.
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D.
Indonesia
Indonesia is a large Southeast Asian nation made up of thousands of islands, known for its diverse cultures, significant natural resources, and status as one of the world’s largest emerging economies.
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E.
Manila
Manila is the capital city of the Philippines, a historic and densely populated coastal metropolis that has long served as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
- 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: Surabaya Description of subject: Surabaya is Indonesia’s second-largest city and a key commercial and industrial hub on the island of Java, historically serving as one of the region’s most important seaports.
Referenced by (157)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Java
subject surface form:
Western Indonesia
this entity surface form:
Surabaya (east)