Ilesa
E303977
Ilesa is a historic Yoruba town in southwestern Nigeria, renowned as the cultural and political center of the Ijesha people.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ilesa canonical | 23 |
| Ilesa region | 1 |
| Imesi Ilesa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2841909 — 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: Ilesa Context triple: [Ijesha, traditionalCapital, Ilesa]
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A.
Ijebu-Ode
Ijebu-Ode is a historic Yoruba town in southwestern Nigeria known as a traditional political and cultural center of the Ijebu people.
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B.
Osogbo
Osogbo is a major city in southwestern Nigeria known for its rich Yoruba cultural heritage and the UNESCO-listed Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove.
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C.
Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
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D.
Abeokuta
Abeokuta is a major city in southwestern Nigeria known as the historic homeland of the Egba people and for its distinctive rocky landscape, including the famous Olumo Rock.
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E.
Ijaw
The Ijaw are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, known for their riverine culture, fishing traditions, and significant role in the country's oil-producing areas.
- 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: Ilesa Target entity description: Ilesa is a historic Yoruba town in southwestern Nigeria, renowned as the cultural and political center of the Ijesha people.
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A.
Ijebu-Ode
Ijebu-Ode is a historic Yoruba town in southwestern Nigeria known as a traditional political and cultural center of the Ijebu people.
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B.
Osogbo
Osogbo is a major city in southwestern Nigeria known for its rich Yoruba cultural heritage and the UNESCO-listed Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove.
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C.
Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
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D.
Abeokuta
Abeokuta is a major city in southwestern Nigeria known as the historic homeland of the Egba people and for its distinctive rocky landscape, including the famous Olumo Rock.
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E.
Ijaw
The Ijaw are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, known for their riverine culture, fishing traditions, and significant role in the country's oil-producing areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
local government area ⓘ town ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | local government headquarters ⓘ |
| agriculturalProduct |
cocoa
ⓘ
food crops ⓘ kolanut ⓘ |
| climate | tropical wet and dry climate ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| culturalPractice |
Yoruba traditional festivals
ⓘ
age-grade associations ⓘ |
| dialect | Ijesha dialect of Yoruba ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
small-scale manufacturing ⓘ trading ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Ijesha people
ⓘ
linked to:
Ijesa people
Yoruba people ⓘ |
| hasDemographics | predominantly Yoruba population ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
secondary schools
ⓘ
tertiary institutions ⓘ |
| hasHealthcareFacility |
clinics
ⓘ
hospitals ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalRulerTitle | Owa Obokun of Ijesaland ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | historic Yoruba town ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ijesha festivals
ⓘ
rich Yoruba cultural heritage ⓘ traditional chieftaincy institutions ⓘ |
| language |
Yoruba language
ⓘ
linked to:
Yoruba
|
| locatedIn |
Osun State
ⓘ
Yorubaland ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Southwestern Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Nigeria
|
| majorRoadConnection |
connected to Akure by road
ⓘ
connected to Ibadan by road ⓘ connected to Osogbo by road ⓘ |
| partOf | Ijeshaland ⓘ |
| regionCapitalOf |
Ijesha people
ⓘ
linked to:
Ijesa people
|
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ traditional Yoruba religion ⓘ |
| role |
cultural center of the Ijesha people
ⓘ
political center of the Ijesha people ⓘ |
| subdivision |
Ilesa East Local Government Area
ⓘ
Ilesa West Local Government Area ⓘ |
| timezone |
West Africa Time
ⓘ
linked to:
West Africa Time (WAT)
|
| traditionalRulerResidence | Owa’s Palace, Ilesa ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +1 ⓘ |
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: Ilesa Description of subject: Ilesa is a historic Yoruba town in southwestern Nigeria, renowned as the cultural and political center of the Ijesha people.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ilesa
linked to: Ilesa