formerNameOfCapital

P49652
predicate

Indicates that one entity was the previous official name of a capital city before it was renamed.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
historicalNameOfCapital 7
capitalFormerName 3
formerNameOfCapital canonical 2

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: formerNameOfCapital
Generated description
Indicates that one entity was the previous official name of a capital city before it was renamed.

Sample triples (17)

Subject Object
Brunei British protectorate Bandar Seri Begawan
surface form: Brunei Town
Kaliningrad Oblast Königsberg
Strawbery Banke Portsmouth, New Hampshire via predicate surface "originalSettlementNameOf"
Ghor Province Chaghcharan via predicate surface "capitalFormerName"
Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk via predicate surface "previousNameOfCapital"
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Nanjing via predicate surface "capitalFormerName"
First Chadian Civil War Fort-Lamy via predicate surface "previousNameOfCapitalDuringConflict"
Moxico Province Luso via predicate surface "capitalFormerName"
Regierungsbezirk Hohensalza Hohensalza via predicate surface "historicalNameOfCapital"
Pressburg County Pressburg via predicate surface "historicalNameOfCapital" NERFINISHED
Pressburg County Pozsony via predicate surface "historicalNameOfCapital" NERFINISHED
Pressburg County Prešporok via predicate surface "historicalNameOfCapital" NERFINISHED
Astana–Almaty Astana via predicate surface "capitalCityFormerName" NERFINISHED
Fengtian Province Mukden via predicate surface "historicalNameOfCapital" NERFINISHED
Fengtian Province Shenyang via predicate surface "historicalNameOfCapital" NERFINISHED
Duchy of Jägerndorf Jägerndorf via predicate surface "historicalNameOfCapital" NERFINISHED
Luso Luena via predicate surface "isFormerNameOfProvincialCapital" NERFINISHED