Ratnapura
E337108
Ratnapura is a major city in Sri Lanka renowned as the country’s primary gem-mining and trading center.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ratnapura District | 7 |
| Ratnapura canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3019853 — 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: Ratnapura Context triple: [Udarata, containsCity, Ratnapura]
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A.
Kandy
Kandy is a historic city in central Sri Lanka renowned for its cultural heritage, including the Temple of the Tooth and its role as a former royal stronghold.
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B.
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya is a Sri Lankan highland city famed for its cool climate, tea plantations, and colonial-era architecture.
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C.
Badulla
Badulla is a major town in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, known as the capital of Uva Province and a regional hub surrounded by tea plantations and scenic mountain landscapes.
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D.
Polonnaruwa
Polonnaruwa is an ancient city in Sri Lanka renowned for its well-preserved medieval ruins and role as a major royal capital of the Sinhalese kingdom.
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E.
Hikkaduwa
Hikkaduwa is a coastal town in southern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, coral reefs, and surf culture.
- 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: Ratnapura Target entity description: Ratnapura is a major city in Sri Lanka renowned as the country’s primary gem-mining and trading center.
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A.
Kandy
Kandy is a historic city in central Sri Lanka renowned for its cultural heritage, including the Temple of the Tooth and its role as a former royal stronghold.
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B.
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya is a Sri Lankan highland city famed for its cool climate, tea plantations, and colonial-era architecture.
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C.
Badulla
Badulla is a major town in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, known as the capital of Uva Province and a regional hub surrounded by tea plantations and scenic mountain landscapes.
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D.
Polonnaruwa
Polonnaruwa is an ancient city in Sri Lanka renowned for its well-preserved medieval ruins and role as a major royal capital of the Sinhalese kingdom.
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E.
Hikkaduwa
Hikkaduwa is a coastal town in southern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, coral reefs, and surf culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Ratnapura Description of subject: Ratnapura is a major city in Sri Lanka renowned as the country’s primary gem-mining and trading center.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Udarata (Up-Country)
subject linked to:
Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
subject linked to:
Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
subject linked to:
Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
linked to: Ratnapura
subject linked to:
Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
subject linked to:
Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike
linked to: Ratnapura
linked to: Ratnapura
linked to: Ratnapura
linked to: Ratnapura
linked to: Ratnapura
linked to: Ratnapura