East Sumba Regency
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East Sumba Regency is an administrative region on the eastern part of Sumba Island in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province, known for its traditional villages, megalithic tombs, and distinctive Marapu culture.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| East Sumba Regency canonical | 15 |
| East Sumba | 6 |
| East Sumba Regency government | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1384894 — 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: East Sumba Regency Context triple: [Sumba, administrativeDivision, East Sumba Regency]
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A.
Belu Regency
Belu Regency is an administrative region in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, located on the western part of Timor Island and bordering Timor-Leste.
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B.
Klungkung Regency
Klungkung Regency is a small coastal regency in southeastern Bali, Indonesia, known for its historical role as the seat of the Gelgel and Klungkung kingdoms and for its offshore Nusa islands.
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C.
Timor Tengah Selatan Regency
Timor Tengah Selatan Regency is an administrative region in the southern central part of West Timor, Indonesia, known for its rugged highlands, traditional villages, and predominantly agricultural economy.
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D.
Sumbawa
Sumbawa is an island in central Indonesia, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands, known for its volcanic landscapes, surfing spots, and relatively low population density compared to neighboring Bali and Lombok.
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E.
Karangasem Regency
Karangasem Regency is an administrative region in eastern Bali, Indonesia, known for its volcanic landscapes, traditional villages, and coastal areas.
- 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: East Sumba Regency Target entity description: East Sumba Regency is an administrative region on the eastern part of Sumba Island in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province, known for its traditional villages, megalithic tombs, and distinctive Marapu culture.
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A.
Belu Regency
Belu Regency is an administrative region in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, located on the western part of Timor Island and bordering Timor-Leste.
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B.
Klungkung Regency
Klungkung Regency is a small coastal regency in southeastern Bali, Indonesia, known for its historical role as the seat of the Gelgel and Klungkung kingdoms and for its offshore Nusa islands.
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C.
Timor Tengah Selatan Regency
Timor Tengah Selatan Regency is an administrative region in the southern central part of West Timor, Indonesia, known for its rugged highlands, traditional villages, and predominantly agricultural economy.
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D.
Sumbawa
Sumbawa is an island in central Indonesia, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands, known for its volcanic landscapes, surfing spots, and relatively low population density compared to neighboring Bali and Lombok.
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E.
Karangasem Regency
Karangasem Regency is an administrative region in eastern Bali, Indonesia, known for its volcanic landscapes, traditional villages, and coastal areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | regency of Indonesia ⓘ |
| administrativeLevel | second-level administrative division of Indonesia ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Central Sumba Regency
ⓘ
Indian Ocean ⓘ Savu Sea ⓘ West Sumba Regency ⓘ |
| capital | Waingapu ⓘ |
| climate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| economySector |
agriculture
ⓘ
livestock raising ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| governedBy | regent ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn |
Indian Ocean
ⓘ
Savage Sea (Savusavu Sea) vicinity / Savu Sea ⓘ
linked to:
Savu Sea
|
| hasCulturalHeritage |
ancestral worship practices
ⓘ
megalithic burial traditions ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Sumba people ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
dry grasslands
ⓘ
hilly terrain ⓘ |
| hasFestival | traditional Sumbanese rituals linked to Marapu ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Indonesian ⓘ |
| hasLocalLanguages |
Sumba languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Sumba–Flores languages
|
| hasReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Marapu belief system ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalCulture | Marapu culture ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure | Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport in Waingapu ⓘ |
| islandGroup | Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive Marapu culture
ⓘ
megalithic tombs ⓘ traditional villages ⓘ |
| locatedIn | East Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| locatedInArchipelago | Malay Archipelago ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | eastern part of Sumba Island ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Sumba ⓘ |
| partOf |
East Nusa Tenggara province
ⓘ
linked to:
East Nusa Tenggara
Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| provinceCapitalDistance | far east from Kupang on Timor Island ⓘ |
| seat | Waingapu ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Indonesia Time ⓘ |
| tourismAttraction |
megalithic stone tombs
ⓘ
ritual ceremonies of Marapu culture ⓘ traditional Sumbanese houses ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +8 ⓘ |
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: East Sumba Regency Description of subject: East Sumba Regency is an administrative region on the eastern part of Sumba Island in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province, known for its traditional villages, megalithic tombs, and distinctive Marapu culture.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: East Sumba Regency
subject linked to:
Mau Hau Airport
linked to: East Sumba Regency
linked to: East Sumba Regency
linked to: East Sumba Regency
subject linked to:
Umbu Mehang Kunda
linked to: East Sumba Regency
subject linked to:
Umbu Mehang Kunda
linked to: East Sumba Regency
linked to: East Sumba Regency
subject linked to:
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport in Waingapu
subject linked to:
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport in Waingapu
subject linked to:
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport in Waingapu
linked to: East Sumba Regency