Cape Agulhas
E167427
Cape Agulhas is the rocky headland on the southern tip of South Africa that marks the geographic meeting point of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cape Agulhas canonical | 13 |
| Cape Agulhas area | 1 |
| Cape Agulhas headland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1388889 — 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: Cape Agulhas Context triple: [Cape of Good Hope, southernmostPointOfAfrica, Cape Agulhas]
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A.
Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, historically significant as a key landmark on the sea route around the southern tip of Africa.
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B.
Cape Peninsula
The Cape Peninsula is a scenic, mountainous peninsula in South Africa that extends into the Atlantic Ocean and includes Cape Town and several famous coastal landmarks.
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C.
Saldanha Bay
Saldanha Bay is a natural deep-water harbor and coastal town on South Africa’s west coast, known for its fishing industry, port facilities, and maritime activities.
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D.
Table Bay
Table Bay is a natural bay on the Atlantic coast of South Africa, famed as the historic anchorage and harbor area of Cape Town beneath Table Mountain.
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E.
Port of Durban
The Port of Durban is Africa’s busiest and largest container port, serving as a major gateway for maritime trade on the east coast of South Africa.
- 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: Cape Agulhas Target entity description: Cape Agulhas is the rocky headland on the southern tip of South Africa that marks the geographic meeting point of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
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A.
Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, historically significant as a key landmark on the sea route around the southern tip of Africa.
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B.
Cape Peninsula
The Cape Peninsula is a scenic, mountainous peninsula in South Africa that extends into the Atlantic Ocean and includes Cape Town and several famous coastal landmarks.
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C.
Saldanha Bay
Saldanha Bay is a natural deep-water harbor and coastal town on South Africa’s west coast, known for its fishing industry, port facilities, and maritime activities.
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D.
Table Bay
Table Bay is a natural bay on the Atlantic coast of South Africa, famed as the historic anchorage and harbor area of Cape Town beneath Table Mountain.
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E.
Port of Durban
The Port of Durban is Africa’s busiest and largest container port, serving as a major gateway for maritime trade on the east coast of South Africa.
- 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: Cape Agulhas Description of subject: Cape Agulhas is the rocky headland on the southern tip of South Africa that marks the geographic meeting point of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cape Agulhas
linked to: Cape Agulhas