Aluthgama
E346157
Aluthgama is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, tourism, and location along major road and rail routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aluthgama canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3025951 — 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: Aluthgama Context triple: [Colombo–Matara railway line, passesThrough, Aluthgama]
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A.
Koggala
Koggala is a coastal town in southern Sri Lanka known for its scenic beach, lagoon, and proximity to the historic city of Galle.
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B.
Kalutara
Kalutara is a major coastal town in western Sri Lanka, known for its historic Buddhist temple, scenic beaches, and role as a regional commercial hub.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Ratnapura
Ratnapura is a major city in Sri Lanka renowned as the country’s primary gem-mining and trading center.
- 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: Aluthgama Target entity description: Aluthgama is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, tourism, and location along major road and rail routes.
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A.
Koggala
Koggala is a coastal town in southern Sri Lanka known for its scenic beach, lagoon, and proximity to the historic city of Galle.
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B.
Kalutara
Kalutara is a major coastal town in western Sri Lanka, known for its historic Buddhist temple, scenic beaches, and role as a regional commercial hub.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Ratnapura
Ratnapura is a major city in Sri Lanka renowned as the country’s primary gem-mining and trading center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
populated place
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
beach resorts
ⓘ
water sports ⓘ |
| hasBodyOfWater | Bentota River ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity | tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature | beaches ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryIndustry |
fishing
ⓘ
hospitality ⓘ |
| hasTourismType |
beach tourism
ⓘ
river-based tourism ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
bus services
ⓘ
railway station ⓘ |
| isCoastalSettlement | true ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
English
ⓘ
Sinhala ⓘ Tamil ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southwestern Sri Lanka
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Sri Lanka
|
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Kalutara District
ⓘ
Western Province ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Bentota
ⓘ
Beruwala ⓘ |
| locatedOn | southwestern coast of Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| locatedOnTransportRoute |
A2 highway
ⓘ
Coastal railway line of Sri Lanka ⓘ
linked to:
Colombo–Matara railway line
|
| locatedSouthOf | Colombo ⓘ |
| timeZone | Sri Lanka Standard Time ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +5:30 ⓘ |
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: Aluthgama Description of subject: Aluthgama is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, tourism, and location along major road and rail routes.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.