Qala-e Naw
E230518
Qala-e Naw is a small city in northwestern Afghanistan that serves as the capital of Badghis Province.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Qala i Naw | 3 |
| Qala-e Naw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2055960 — 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: Qala-e Naw Context triple: [Western Afghanistan, hasMajorCity, Qala-e Naw]
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A.
Qalat
Qalat is a key urban center and provincial capital in southern Afghanistan, known for its strategic location and historical fortifications.
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B.
Banawali
Banawali is an archaeological site in Haryana, India, known for its well-preserved remains of the Indus Valley Civilization, including planned settlements and distinctive Harappan artifacts.
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C.
Umarkot
Umarkot is a historic town in the Sindh province of Pakistan, traditionally known as the birthplace of the Mughal emperor Akbar.
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D.
Wazirabad
Wazirabad is a city in the Gujranwala District of Punjab, Pakistan, known for its cutlery industry and strategic location near the Chenab River.
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E.
Nowshera
Nowshera is a city in northern Pakistan known as an important commercial and military center in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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: Qala-e Naw Target entity description: Qala-e Naw is a small city in northwestern Afghanistan that serves as the capital of Badghis Province.
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A.
Qalat
Qalat is a key urban center and provincial capital in southern Afghanistan, known for its strategic location and historical fortifications.
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B.
Banawali
Banawali is an archaeological site in Haryana, India, known for its well-preserved remains of the Indus Valley Civilization, including planned settlements and distinctive Harappan artifacts.
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C.
Umarkot
Umarkot is a historic town in the Sindh province of Pakistan, traditionally known as the birthplace of the Mughal emperor Akbar.
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D.
Wazirabad
Wazirabad is a city in the Gujranwala District of Punjab, Pakistan, known for its cutlery industry and strategic location near the Chenab River.
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E.
Nowshera
Nowshera is a city in northern Pakistan known as an important commercial and military center in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
settlement ⓘ |
| administrativeCenterOf | Badghis Province ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Badghis Province ⓘ |
| country | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| hasClimate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| hasCountryCallingCode | +93 ⓘ |
| hasCountryCapital | Kabul ⓘ |
| hasDrivingSide | right ⓘ |
| hasGeopoliticalStatus | city in Afghanistan ⓘ |
| hasMajorReligion | Islam ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage |
Dari
ⓘ
Pashto ⓘ
linked to:
Pashto language
|
| hasRole | provincial capital ⓘ |
| hasSovereignState | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| isProvincialCapitalOfCountry | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Badghis Province ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northwestern Afghanistan ⓘ |
| locatedInSubregion | western Afghanistan ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Afghanistan Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| partOf |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Badghis Province ⓘ |
| timeZoneUTCOffset | +4:30 ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | Afghan afghani ⓘ |
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: Qala-e Naw Description of subject: Qala-e Naw is a small city in northwestern Afghanistan that serves as the capital of Badghis Province.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Qala-e Naw
linked to: Qala-e Naw
linked to: Qala-e Naw