Bataan
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Bataan is a coastal province on the western side of Luzon in the Philippines, historically known as the site of the World War II Battle of Bataan and the Bataan Death March.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bataan canonical | 122 |
| Bataan, Philippines | 3 |
| Bataan lowlands | 1 |
| Bataan plains | 1 |
| Gateway to Bataan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2906948 — 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: Bataan Context triple: [Central Luzon, containsProvince, Bataan]
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A.
Bataan Peninsula
The Bataan Peninsula is a landform in the Philippines west of Manila that became historically significant as the site of a major World War II battle and the subsequent Bataan Death March.
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B.
Mariveles, Bataan
Mariveles, Bataan is a coastal municipality in the Philippines historically known as one of the starting points of the Bataan Death March during World War II.
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C.
Bagac, Bataan
Bagac, Bataan is a coastal municipality in the Philippines historically known as one of the starting points of the Bataan Death March during World War II.
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D.
Lingayen
Lingayen is a coastal municipality in the Philippines that serves as the capital of Pangasinan and is known for its historic bay and World War II significance.
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E.
Surigaonon
Surigaonon is a Visayan language spoken primarily in the Caraga region of northeastern Mindanao in the Philippines.
- 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: Bataan Target entity description: Bataan is a coastal province on the western side of Luzon in the Philippines, historically known as the site of the World War II Battle of Bataan and the Bataan Death March.
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A.
Bataan Peninsula
The Bataan Peninsula is a landform in the Philippines west of Manila that became historically significant as the site of a major World War II battle and the subsequent Bataan Death March.
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B.
Mariveles, Bataan
Mariveles, Bataan is a coastal municipality in the Philippines historically known as one of the starting points of the Bataan Death March during World War II.
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C.
Bagac, Bataan
Bagac, Bataan is a coastal municipality in the Philippines historically known as one of the starting points of the Bataan Death March during World War II.
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D.
Lingayen
Lingayen is a coastal municipality in the Philippines that serves as the capital of Pangasinan and is known for its historic bay and World War II significance.
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E.
Surigaonon
Surigaonon is a Visayan language spoken primarily in the Caraga region of northeastern Mindanao in the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Bataan Description of subject: Bataan is a coastal province on the western side of Luzon in the Philippines, historically known as the site of the World War II Battle of Bataan and the Bataan Death March.
Referenced by (128)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
town of Balanga
subject linked to:
town of Balanga
subject linked to:
town of Balanga
subject linked to:
town of Balanga
subject linked to:
town of Balanga
subject linked to:
town of Balanga
subject linked to:
Dambana ng Kagitingan (Shrine of Valor) on Mount Samat
subject linked to:
town of Bagac
linked to: Bataan
linked to: Bataan
subject linked to:
Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor)
subject linked to:
Orion