Kourou
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Kourou is a coastal town in French Guiana best known as the site of the Guiana Space Centre, a major European spaceport.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kourou canonical | 45 |
| Kourou, French Guiana | 43 |
| commune of Kourou | 2 |
| Kourou Airport | 1 |
| Kourou ground station | 1 |
| municipality of Kourou | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1359964 — 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: Kourou Context triple: [French Guiana, hasCity, Kourou]
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A.
Guiana Space Centre
The Guiana Space Centre is a major European spaceport located in French Guiana, used for launching a wide range of commercial and scientific missions including flagship observatories.
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B.
Garoua
Garoua is a major city in northern Cameroon that serves as an important commercial and administrative center and a key hub for river and overland transport in the region.
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Horizonte
Horizonte is a municipality in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil, known for its growing industrial sector and proximity to the Fortaleza metropolitan area.
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Barreira do Inferno Launch Center
Barreira do Inferno Launch Center is Brazil’s first rocket launch base, used primarily for sounding rocket missions and space research activities.
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E.
Canazei
Canazei is a mountain village and ski resort in the Dolomites of northern Italy, known for winter sports and alpine tourism.
- 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: Kourou Target entity description: Kourou is a coastal town in French Guiana best known as the site of the Guiana Space Centre, a major European spaceport.
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A.
Guiana Space Centre
The Guiana Space Centre is a major European spaceport located in French Guiana, used for launching a wide range of commercial and scientific missions including flagship observatories.
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B.
Garoua
Garoua is a major city in northern Cameroon that serves as an important commercial and administrative center and a key hub for river and overland transport in the region.
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C.
Horizonte
Horizonte is a municipality in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil, known for its growing industrial sector and proximity to the Fortaleza metropolitan area.
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D.
Barreira do Inferno Launch Center
Barreira do Inferno Launch Center is Brazil’s first rocket launch base, used primarily for sounding rocket missions and space research activities.
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E.
Canazei
Canazei is a mountain village and ski resort in the Dolomites of northern Italy, known for winter sports and alpine tourism.
- 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: Kourou Description of subject: Kourou is a coastal town in French Guiana best known as the site of the Guiana Space Centre, a major European spaceport.
Referenced by (93)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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MICROSCOPE satellite mission
linked to: Kourou
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BepiColombo mission
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ANIK C2 communications satellite
linked to: Kourou
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subject linked to:
Rosetta (on earlier Ariane 5 variant family)
linked to: Kourou
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subject linked to:
PRISMA Earth observation mission
linked to: Kourou
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subject linked to:
Hipparcos satellite
linked to: Kourou