Makurdi
E106865
Makurdi is the capital city of Benue State in central Nigeria, serving as an important administrative and commercial hub in the region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Makurdi canonical | 25 |
| Makurdi metropolis | 1 |
| Makurdi metropolitan area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899740 — 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: Makurdi Context triple: [Benue River, majorCityOnRiver, Makurdi]
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A.
Bauchi
Bauchi is a prominent city in northeastern Nigeria that serves as the capital of Bauchi State and a key commercial and administrative center in the region.
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B.
Enugu
Enugu is a major city in southeastern Nigeria known historically for its coal mining industry and role as a regional administrative and economic center.
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C.
Owerri
Owerri is the capital and largest city of Imo State in southeastern Nigeria, known as a regional cultural and commercial center.
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D.
Onitsha
Onitsha is a major commercial and river port city on the eastern bank of the Niger River in southeastern Nigeria, known for its large open-air market and vibrant trade.
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E.
Benin City
Benin City is a major urban center in southern Nigeria, historically known as the capital of the ancient Benin Kingdom and renowned for its rich cultural heritage and bronze artworks.
- 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: Makurdi Target entity description: Makurdi is the capital city of Benue State in central Nigeria, serving as an important administrative and commercial hub in the region.
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A.
Bauchi
Bauchi is a prominent city in northeastern Nigeria that serves as the capital of Bauchi State and a key commercial and administrative center in the region.
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B.
Enugu
Enugu is a major city in southeastern Nigeria known historically for its coal mining industry and role as a regional administrative and economic center.
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C.
Owerri
Owerri is the capital and largest city of Imo State in southeastern Nigeria, known as a regional cultural and commercial center.
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D.
Onitsha
Onitsha is a major commercial and river port city on the eastern bank of the Niger River in southeastern Nigeria, known for its large open-air market and vibrant trade.
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E.
Benin City
Benin City is a major urban center in southern Nigeria, historically known as the capital of the ancient Benin Kingdom and renowned for its rich cultural heritage and bronze artworks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Makurdi Description of subject: Makurdi is the capital city of Benue State in central Nigeria, serving as an important administrative and commercial hub in the region.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Makurdi
linked to: Makurdi