Cap-Haïtien
E168241
Cap-Haïtien is a historic coastal city in northern Haiti known for its colonial architecture and proximity to the UNESCO-listed Citadelle Laferrière fortress.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cap-Haïtien canonical | 82 |
| Cap-Haïtien (historical name variant) | 1 |
| Cap-Haïtien metropolitan area | 1 |
| Cap-Haïtien, Haiti | 1 |
| Cap-Henri (Cap-Français / Cap-Haïtien) | 1 |
| Cap‑Haïtien | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1394284 — 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: Cap-Haïtien Context triple: [Philomé Obin, placeOfBirth, Cap-Haïtien]
-
A.
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of Haiti, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
-
B.
Pétion-Ville
Pétion-Ville is a suburban commune in the hills southeast of Port-au-Prince, known as one of Haiti’s main residential and commercial centers.
-
C.
Croix-des-Bouquets
Croix-des-Bouquets is a commune in Haiti known for its vibrant metal art tradition and proximity to the capital, Port-au-Prince.
-
D.
Petit-Goâve
Petit-Goâve is a coastal town in southwestern Haiti known as one of the country’s older colonial settlements and a local center of commerce and fishing.
-
E.
Castries
Castries is the largest city and main commercial and cultural center of Saint Lucia in the eastern Caribbean.
- 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: Cap-Haïtien Target entity description: Cap-Haïtien is a historic coastal city in northern Haiti known for its colonial architecture and proximity to the UNESCO-listed Citadelle Laferrière fortress.
-
A.
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of Haiti, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
-
B.
Pétion-Ville
Pétion-Ville is a suburban commune in the hills southeast of Port-au-Prince, known as one of Haiti’s main residential and commercial centers.
-
C.
Croix-des-Bouquets
Croix-des-Bouquets is a commune in Haiti known for its vibrant metal art tradition and proximity to the capital, Port-au-Prince.
-
D.
Petit-Goâve
Petit-Goâve is a coastal town in southwestern Haiti known as one of the country’s older colonial settlements and a local center of commerce and fishing.
-
E.
Castries
Castries is the largest city and main commercial and cultural center of Saint Lucia in the eastern Caribbean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
commune ⓘ |
| airportIATA | CAP ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Nord department ⓘ |
| climate | tropical climate ⓘ |
| colonialPower | France ⓘ |
| country | Haiti ⓘ |
| demographics | predominantly Afro-Haitian population ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
port trade
ⓘ
services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| formerName |
Cap-Français
ⓘ
Cap-Henri ⓘ |
| foundingCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Cap-Haïtien International Airport ⓘ |
| hasCoastline | Atlantic Ocean via Caribbean Sea ⓘ |
| heritageStatusNearby |
UNESCO World Heritage Site Citadelle Laferrière, Sans-Souci, Ramiers
ⓘ
linked to:
Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti
|
| historicalRole |
important center in the Haitian Revolution
ⓘ
major city of the French colony of Saint-Domingue ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic colonial architecture
ⓘ
proximity to Citadelle Laferrière ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nord department
ⓘ
northern Haiti ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Caribbean Sea
ⓘ
northern coast of Haiti ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Haut du Cap River ⓘ |
| near |
Citadelle Laferrière
ⓘ
linked to:
Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti
Labadee cruise port ⓘ Sans-Souci Palace ⓘ |
| nickname | Paris of the Antilles ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
French
ⓘ
Haitian Creole ⓘ |
| partOf | Arrondissement of Cap-Haïtien ⓘ |
| populationEstimate | over 150000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| portType | seaport ⓘ |
| primaryReligion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ Vodou ⓘ |
| region | Caribbean ⓘ |
| roadConnection | connected by road to Port-au-Prince ⓘ |
| sovereignState |
Republic of Haiti
ⓘ
linked to:
Haiti
|
| timeZone |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| urbanStatus | one of the largest cities in Haiti ⓘ |
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: Cap-Haïtien Description of subject: Cap-Haïtien is a historic coastal city in northern Haiti known for its colonial architecture and proximity to the UNESCO-listed Citadelle Laferrière fortress.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.