Elba
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Elba is a Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy, best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s first exile in 1814–1815.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elba canonical | 66 |
| Island of Elba | 29 |
| Elba Island | 18 |
| Isola d’Elba | 8 |
| island of Elba | 6 |
| Elba (island in Italy) | 1 |
| Elba Island (distant view) | 1 |
| Isle of Elba | 1 |
| Procchio, Elba | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T67340 — 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: Elba Context triple: [Napoleon Bonaparte, exiledTo, Elba]
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Corsica
Corsica is a mountainous Mediterranean island and French territorial collectivity known for its distinct culture, rugged coastline, and as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Sardinia
Sardinia is a large Mediterranean island known for its rugged coastline, ancient Nuragic archaeological sites, and distinct local culture and language.
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Sicily
Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, known for its rich ancient history, distinctive culture, and strategic location at the crossroads of Europe and North Africa.
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St. Helena
St. Helena is a small, historic city in California’s Napa Valley known for its wineries, vineyards, and upscale culinary and tourism scene.
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Saint Helena
Saint Helena is a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, best known as the place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile and death.
- 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: Elba Target entity description: Elba is a Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy, best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s first exile in 1814–1815.
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A.
Corsica
Corsica is a mountainous Mediterranean island and French territorial collectivity known for its distinct culture, rugged coastline, and as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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B.
Sardinia
Sardinia is a large Mediterranean island known for its rugged coastline, ancient Nuragic archaeological sites, and distinct local culture and language.
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C.
Sicily
Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, known for its rich ancient history, distinctive culture, and strategic location at the crossroads of Europe and North Africa.
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D.
St. Helena
St. Helena is a small, historic city in California’s Napa Valley known for its wineries, vineyards, and upscale culinary and tourism scene.
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E.
Saint Helena
Saint Helena is a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, best known as the place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile and death.
- 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: Elba Description of subject: Elba is a Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy, best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s first exile in 1814–1815.
Referenced by (131)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Elba, Nebraska, United States
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Bertrand family
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