Koulikoro
E221646
Koulikoro is a town and region in southwestern Mali, situated along the Niger River and serving as an important administrative and transport hub.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koulikoro canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1829481 — 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: Koulikoro Context triple: [EUTM Mali, location, Koulikoro]
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A.
Ségou
Ségou is a historic city in central Mali known for its role as a former Bambara kingdom capital, its Niger River location, and its rich cultural and artistic heritage.
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B.
Sikasso
Sikasso is a major city in southern Mali known as an important agricultural and commercial center near the borders with Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.
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C.
Mopti
Mopti is a major city in central Mali known as a bustling river port and commercial hub situated at the confluence of the Niger and Bani rivers.
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D.
Bamako
Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in West Africa.
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E.
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center in the Sahel region.
- 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: Koulikoro Target entity description: Koulikoro is a town and region in southwestern Mali, situated along the Niger River and serving as an important administrative and transport hub.
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A.
Ségou
Ségou is a historic city in central Mali known for its role as a former Bambara kingdom capital, its Niger River location, and its rich cultural and artistic heritage.
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B.
Sikasso
Sikasso is a major city in southern Mali known as an important agricultural and commercial center near the borders with Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.
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C.
Mopti
Mopti is a major city in central Mali known as a bustling river port and commercial hub situated at the confluence of the Niger and Bani rivers.
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D.
Bamako
Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in West Africa.
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E.
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center in the Sahel region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commune
ⓘ
region ⓘ regional capital ⓘ town ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf | Mali ⓘ |
| bordersCountry |
Guinea
ⓘ
Mauritania ⓘ |
| bordersDistrict | Bamako District ⓘ |
| bordersRegion |
Kayes Region
ⓘ
Sikasso Region ⓘ Ségou Region ⓘ |
| capital | Koulikoro ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Bamako by rail
ⓘ
Bamako by road ⓘ |
| country |
Mali
ⓘ
Mali ⓘ |
| distanceFrom | Bamako ⓘ |
| distanceFromBamako_km | approximately 59 ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
agriculture ⓘ fishing ⓘ livestock raising ⓘ river trade ⓘ transport services ⓘ |
| isCapitalOf | Koulikoro Region ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Koulikoro Region
ⓘ
southwestern Mali ⓘ southwestern Mali ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent |
Africa
ⓘ
Africa ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Niger River ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage |
Bambara
ⓘ
Bambara ⓘ French ⓘ French ⓘ |
| railwayLine |
Dakar–Niger Railway
ⓘ
linked to:
Bamako–Dakar Railway
|
| regionType | administrative region of Mali ⓘ |
| role |
administrative hub
ⓘ
transport hub ⓘ |
| timezone |
UTC+0
ⓘ
UTC+0 ⓘ |
| transport |
rail terminus
ⓘ
river port ⓘ |
| traversedByRiver |
Bani River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Niger River ⓘ |
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: Koulikoro Description of subject: Koulikoro is a town and region in southwestern Mali, situated along the Niger River and serving as an important administrative and transport hub.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.