Lagos
E10118
Lagos is a major coastal megacity in southwestern Nigeria, known as the country’s economic hub and one of Africa’s most populous and vibrant urban centers.
All labels observed (19)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lagos canonical | 253 |
| Lagos, Nigeria | 23 |
| Lagos metropolitan area | 14 |
| Lagos metropolis | 12 |
| Lagos Metropolitan Area | 4 |
| Lagos State | 3 |
| 42 Lagos | 1 |
| Africa/Lagos | 1 |
| Badagry | 1 |
| Idi-Araba, Lagos | 1 |
| Lagos Harbour | 1 |
| Lagos Mainland | 1 |
| Lagos Mainland and Island urban agglomeration | 1 |
| Lagos city | 1 |
| Lagos city region | 1 |
| Lekki | 1 |
| Port of Lagos | 1 |
| Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria | 1 |
| Yaba | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T101553 — 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: Lagos Context triple: [Nigeria, largestCity, Lagos]
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A.
Abuja
Abuja is a planned city in central Nigeria that serves as the country’s political and administrative center.
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B.
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub in East Africa.
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C.
Nigeria
Nigeria is a populous West African country known for its diverse ethnic groups, rich cultural heritage, and status as Africa’s largest economy and oil producer.
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D.
Cairo
Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, a historic metropolis on the Nile renowned for its rich Islamic heritage and proximity to the ancient pyramids.
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E.
Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa is one of the country’s three capital cities, serving as the administrative capital and a major center for government, education, and culture.
- 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: Lagos Target entity description: Lagos is a major coastal megacity in southwestern Nigeria, known as the country’s economic hub and one of Africa’s most populous and vibrant urban centers.
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A.
Abuja
Abuja is a planned city in central Nigeria that serves as the country’s political and administrative center.
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B.
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub in East Africa.
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C.
Nigeria
Nigeria is a populous West African country known for its diverse ethnic groups, rich cultural heritage, and status as Africa’s largest economy and oil producer.
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D.
Cairo
Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, a historic metropolis on the Nile renowned for its rich Islamic heritage and proximity to the ancient pyramids.
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E.
Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa is one of the country’s three capital cities, serving as the administrative capital and a major center for government, education, and culture.
- 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: Lagos Description of subject: Lagos is a major coastal megacity in southwestern Nigeria, known as the country’s economic hub and one of Africa’s most populous and vibrant urban centers.
Referenced by (322)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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West Africa Time (WAT)
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