Cape Coast
E208533
Cape Coast is a historic coastal city in southern Ghana known for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its well-preserved colonial-era castle.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cape Coast canonical | 59 |
| Cape Coast metropolitan area | 2 |
| Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly | 1 |
| Cape Coast area | 1 |
| Cape Coast city centre | 1 |
| Cape Coast harbour | 1 |
| Cape Coast state | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1862981 — 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 Coast Context triple: [Gold Coast, hasPort, Cape Coast]
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A.
Cape Coast Castle
Cape Coast Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that served as one of the largest centers of British transatlantic slave trade in West Africa.
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B.
Elmina Castle
Elmina Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that became one of the most significant hubs of the transatlantic slave trade.
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C.
Ouidah
Ouidah is a coastal city in Benin historically known as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and for its rich Vodun (Voodoo) cultural heritage.
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D.
Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, known as a historic port and former center for resettled freed slaves in West Africa.
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E.
Freetown
Freetown is a historic rural town in Bristol County, southeastern Massachusetts, known for its forests, ponds, and the reputedly haunted Freetown-Fall River State Forest.
- 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 Coast Target entity description: Cape Coast is a historic coastal city in southern Ghana known for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its well-preserved colonial-era castle.
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A.
Cape Coast Castle
Cape Coast Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that served as one of the largest centers of British transatlantic slave trade in West Africa.
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B.
Elmina Castle
Elmina Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that became one of the most significant hubs of the transatlantic slave trade.
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C.
Ouidah
Ouidah is a coastal city in Benin historically known as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and for its rich Vodun (Voodoo) cultural heritage.
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D.
Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, known as a historic port and former center for resettled freed slaves in West Africa.
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E.
Freetown
Freetown is a historic rural town in Bristol County, southeastern Massachusetts, known for its forests, ponds, and the reputedly haunted Freetown-Fall River State Forest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ tourist destination ⓘ |
| administrativeCapitalOf | Central Region, Ghana ⓘ |
| climateType | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| country | Ghana ⓘ |
| countryCapitalType | regional capital ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 150 km west of Accra ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Fante people ⓘ |
| formerColonialPower |
Denmark–Norway
ⓘ
Great Britain ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ Portugal ⓘ Sweden ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Coast
|
| hasFortOrCastle |
Cape Coast Castle
ⓘ
Fort Victoria, Cape Coast ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Victoria (Cape Coast)
Fort William, Cape Coast ⓘ
linked to:
Fort William (Cape Coast)
|
| hasSecondaryEducationInstitution |
Adisadel College
ⓘ
Mfantsipim School ⓘ Wesley Girls' High School ⓘ
linked to:
Wesley Girls High School
|
| hasUNESCOStatus | Cape Coast Castle is part of UNESCO World Heritage Site "Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions" ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | University of Cape Coast ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodSignificance | European colonial era in West Africa ⓘ |
| historicalRole | important British administrative center on the Gold Coast ⓘ |
| isCoastalCity | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Cape Coast Castle
ⓘ
colonial-era architecture ⓘ historic forts and castles ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Fante ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Central Region, Ghana ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Cape Coast Peninsula ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | Gulf of Guinea ⓘ |
| locatedOnOcean | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | false ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gold Coast (historical colony)
ⓘ
linked to:
Gold Coast Colony
|
| primaryEconomicActivities |
education services
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| region | southern Ghana ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ traditional African religions ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | major center of the trans-Atlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| timeZone | Greenwich Mean Time ⓘ |
| tourismAttraction |
Cape Coast Castle
ⓘ
nearby Kakum National Park ⓘ |
| transportFacility | Cape Coast bus and road connections to Accra and Takoradi ⓘ |
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 Coast Description of subject: Cape Coast is a historic coastal city in southern Ghana known for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its well-preserved colonial-era castle.
Referenced by (66)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cape Coast
linked to: Cape Coast
linked to: Cape Coast
linked to: Cape Coast
linked to: Cape Coast
subject linked to:
Wesley Girls High School