Ouaga
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Ouaga is the commonly used short name for Ouagadougou, the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ouaga canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3312390 — 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: Ouaga Context triple: [Ouagadougou, abbreviation, Ouaga]
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A.
Malabo
Malabo is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
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B.
Yaoundé
Yaoundé is the political and administrative center of Cameroon, known for its hilly terrain and role as a major cultural and economic hub in Central Africa.
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C.
N'Djamena
N'Djamena is the largest city and political, economic, and cultural center of Chad, located in the southwestern part of the country near the border with Cameroon.
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D.
Bangui
Bangui is the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
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E.
Serekunda
Serekunda is the most populous urban center and a major commercial hub in The Gambia.
- 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: Ouaga Target entity description: Ouaga is the commonly used short name for Ouagadougou, the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso.
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A.
Malabo
Malabo is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
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B.
Yaoundé
Yaoundé is the political and administrative center of Cameroon, known for its hilly terrain and role as a major cultural and economic hub in Central Africa.
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C.
N'Djamena
N'Djamena is the largest city and political, economic, and cultural center of Chad, located in the southwestern part of the country near the border with Cameroon.
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D.
Bangui
Bangui is the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
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E.
Serekunda
Serekunda is the most populous urban center and a major commercial hub in The Gambia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
capital city
ⓘ
city ⓘ short name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Burkinabé culture
ⓘ
Burkinabé government ⓘ
linked to:
government of Burkina Faso
|
| capitalOf | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| commonSpelling | Ouaga ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| demographics | most populous city in Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| fullName | Ouagadougou ⓘ |
| function |
administrative center of Burkina Faso
ⓘ
cultural center of Burkina Faso ⓘ economic center of Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
government institutions of Burkina Faso
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ major markets ⓘ transport hub ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| role |
capital city of Burkina Faso
ⓘ
largest city of Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| shortFor | Ouagadougou ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC+0 ⓘ |
| usedAs | colloquial name for Ouagadougou ⓘ |
| usedIn |
French-language contexts
ⓘ
everyday speech in Burkina Faso ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Ouaga Description of subject: Ouaga is the commonly used short name for Ouagadougou, the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.