Koutiala
E204522
Koutiala is a major city in southern Mali known as an important center for cotton production and agriculture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koutiala canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1813172 — 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: Koutiala Context triple: [Mali, containsCity, Koutiala]
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A.
Katchal
Katchal is a dialect of the Nicobarese language spoken by the indigenous community on Katchal Island in India’s Nicobar Islands.
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B.
Negombo
Negombo is a coastal city in western Sri Lanka known historically as a strategic colonial port and today for its fishing industry and beach tourism.
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C.
Kharimkotan
Kharimkotan is an uninhabited volcanic island in the central Kuril Islands chain of Russia, known for its large stratovolcano and history of explosive eruptions.
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D.
Kumba
Kumba is a renowned steel roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, famous for its intense inversions and smooth, high-speed layout.
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E.
Temeswar
Temeswar (Timișoara) is a major city in western Romania known for its multicultural heritage and role in the 1989 Romanian Revolution.
- 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: Koutiala Target entity description: Koutiala is a major city in southern Mali known as an important center for cotton production and agriculture.
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A.
Katchal
Katchal is a dialect of the Nicobarese language spoken by the indigenous community on Katchal Island in India’s Nicobar Islands.
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B.
Negombo
Negombo is a coastal city in western Sri Lanka known historically as a strategic colonial port and today for its fishing industry and beach tourism.
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C.
Kharimkotan
Kharimkotan is an uninhabited volcanic island in the central Kuril Islands chain of Russia, known for its large stratovolcano and history of explosive eruptions.
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D.
Kumba
Kumba is a renowned steel roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, famous for its intense inversions and smooth, high-speed layout.
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E.
Temeswar
Temeswar (Timișoara) is a major city in western Romania known for its multicultural heritage and role in the 1989 Romanian Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
commune ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf | Koutiala Cercle ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | urban commune ⓘ |
| agriculturalSystem | rain-fed agriculture ⓘ |
| climateType | tropical wet and dry ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Mali ⓘ |
| distanceFromBamako | approximately 400 km east ⓘ |
| drySeason | roughly November to April ⓘ |
| economicImportance | major contributor to Mali cotton exports ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 300 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| governingCountryCapital | Bamako ⓘ |
| hasClimate | Sudanian savanna climate ⓘ |
| hasEducationalFacility | secondary schools ⓘ |
| hasHealthFacility | regional hospital ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
cotton ginning
ⓘ
food processing ⓘ textile processing ⓘ |
| hasMarket | central market ⓘ |
| hasSportsActivity | football ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agriculture
ⓘ
cotton production ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Bambara
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Sikasso Region
ⓘ
southern Mali ⓘ |
| nationalLanguageUsed | Bambara ⓘ |
| nickname | capital of white gold ⓘ |
| officialLanguageUsed | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sikasso administrative region
ⓘ
linked to:
Sikasso Region
|
| populationCharacteristic | rapidly growing population ⓘ |
| primaryCrop |
cotton
ⓘ
groundnuts ⓘ maize ⓘ millet ⓘ sorghum ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSector | agriculture ⓘ |
| rainySeason | roughly May to October ⓘ |
| regionCapitalOf | Koutiala Cercle ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ |
| role |
agricultural center
ⓘ
major cotton production center ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Greenwich Mean Time
ⓘ
UTC+0 ⓘ |
| transportConnection |
road network to Bamako
ⓘ
road network to Sikasso ⓘ |
| whiteGoldRefersTo | cotton ⓘ |
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: Koutiala Description of subject: Koutiala is a major city in southern Mali known as an important center for cotton production and agriculture.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.