Cusco
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Cusco is a historic city in southeastern Peru that served as the capital of the Inca Empire and is now a major gateway to Machu Picchu.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cusco canonical | 156 |
| Cuzco | 26 |
| City of Cusco | 7 |
| city of Cusco | 7 |
| Cusco metropolitan area | 3 |
| City of Cuzco | 2 |
| Qosqo | 2 |
| city of Cuzco | 2 |
| Cusco (Inca Empire) | 1 |
| Cusco area | 1 |
| Cusco city | 1 |
| Cusco city center | 1 |
| Cusco historic center | 1 |
| Cusco, Peru | 1 |
| Cuzco, Viceroyalty of Peru | 1 |
| Inca capital Cusco | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T100691 — 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: Cusco Context triple: [Peru, contains, Cusco]
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A.
Lima
Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center on South America's Pacific coast.
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B.
Quito
Quito is the high-altitude Andean city that serves as Ecuador’s political and cultural center, renowned for its well-preserved colonial historic center and dramatic mountain setting.
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C.
San Pedro de Atacama
San Pedro de Atacama is a small Chilean town in the Andes renowned as a gateway for tourists exploring the surrounding Atacama Desert’s salt flats, geysers, and high-altitude landscapes.
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D.
Guayaquil
Guayaquil is a major Pacific port city in southwestern Ecuador and the country’s principal commercial and industrial center.
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E.
Santiago de Veraguas
Santiago de Veraguas is a principal urban and commercial center in western Panama and the capital of Veraguas Province.
- 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: Cusco Target entity description: Cusco is a historic city in southeastern Peru that served as the capital of the Inca Empire and is now a major gateway to Machu Picchu.
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A.
Lima
Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center on South America's Pacific coast.
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B.
Quito
Quito is the high-altitude Andean city that serves as Ecuador’s political and cultural center, renowned for its well-preserved colonial historic center and dramatic mountain setting.
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C.
San Pedro de Atacama
San Pedro de Atacama is a small Chilean town in the Andes renowned as a gateway for tourists exploring the surrounding Atacama Desert’s salt flats, geysers, and high-altitude landscapes.
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D.
Guayaquil
Guayaquil is a major Pacific port city in southwestern Ecuador and the country’s principal commercial and industrial center.
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E.
Santiago de Veraguas
Santiago de Veraguas is a principal urban and commercial center in western Panama and the capital of Veraguas Province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Cusco Description of subject: Cusco is a historic city in southeastern Peru that served as the capital of the Inca Empire and is now a major gateway to Machu Picchu.
Referenced by (213)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Tempe, Arizona, USA
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subject linked to:
Inca emperor Pachacuti
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