South-Eastern State
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South-Eastern State was a former administrative region in southeastern Nigeria that was later renamed Cross River State.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| South-Eastern State canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2887220 — 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: South-Eastern State Context triple: [Cross River State, formerName, South-Eastern State]
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A.
Southeast
Southeast is a Metro-North Railroad commuter rail station in Putnam County, New York, serving as a key park-and-ride hub and transfer point near the northern end of the Harlem Line.
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B.
Southeast
Southeast is the common abbreviation for the NBA’s Southeast Division, a grouping of professional basketball teams based in the southeastern United States.
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C.
Southeast Region
The Southeast Region is one of the geographic brackets used in the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament to organize and seed teams during March Madness.
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D.
Southeastern
Southeastern is a British train operating company that runs passenger rail services across southeast London and the counties of Kent and East Sussex.
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E.
East South Central States
The East South Central States are a U.S. Census Bureau–defined region in the southeastern United States that includes Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
- 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: South-Eastern State Target entity description: South-Eastern State was a former administrative region in southeastern Nigeria that was later renamed Cross River State.
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A.
Southeast
Southeast is a Metro-North Railroad commuter rail station in Putnam County, New York, serving as a key park-and-ride hub and transfer point near the northern end of the Harlem Line.
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B.
Southeast
Southeast is the common abbreviation for the NBA’s Southeast Division, a grouping of professional basketball teams based in the southeastern United States.
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C.
Southeast Region
The Southeast Region is one of the geographic brackets used in the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament to organize and seed teams during March Madness.
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D.
Southeastern
Southeastern is a British train operating company that runs passenger rail services across southeast London and the counties of Kent and East Sussex.
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E.
East South Central States
The East South Central States are a U.S. Census Bureau–defined region in the southeastern United States that includes Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former administrative region
ⓘ
former state of Nigeria ⓘ |
| capital | Calabar ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| followedBy | Cross River State ⓘ |
| hasBorderWith | Cameroon (as part of its successor Cross River State) ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorAdministrativeUnit | Cross River State ⓘ |
| languageUsed | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eastern Region of Nigeria (historical context)
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Nigeria
southeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
| partOf |
Federal Republic of Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
Nigeria
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| renamedAs | Cross River State ⓘ |
| timeZone |
West Africa Time
ⓘ
linked to:
West Africa Time (WAT)
|
| 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: South-Eastern State Description of subject: South-Eastern State was a former administrative region in southeastern Nigeria that was later renamed Cross River State.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.