Mawlamyine
E402287
Mawlamyine is a coastal city in southeastern Myanmar and the capital of Mon State, known historically as an important port and cultural center.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mawlamyine canonical | 23 |
| Moulmein | 2 |
| Mawlamyine Township | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3964548 — 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: Mawlamyine Context triple: [Salween River, majorCityOnRiver, Mawlamyine]
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A.
Lashio
Lashio is a key town in northern Myanmar that historically served as an important transport and trade hub, particularly during World War II as the inland gateway to the Burma Road.
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B.
Kawthaung
Kawthaung is a coastal town in southern Myanmar that serves as a key gateway for cross-border trade and travel with Thailand.
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C.
Myitkyina
Myitkyina is the capital of Kachin State in northern Myanmar, known as a key regional center and transport hub near the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River.
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D.
Amarapura
Amarapura is a former royal city in Myanmar renowned for its role as an early Burmese capital and for landmarks such as the U Bein Bridge.
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E.
Sittwe
Sittwe is a coastal city in western Myanmar that has been a focal point of political unrest and ethnic tensions, including major protests during the Saffron Revolution.
- 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: Mawlamyine Target entity description: Mawlamyine is a coastal city in southeastern Myanmar and the capital of Mon State, known historically as an important port and cultural center.
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A.
Lashio
Lashio is a key town in northern Myanmar that historically served as an important transport and trade hub, particularly during World War II as the inland gateway to the Burma Road.
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B.
Kawthaung
Kawthaung is a coastal town in southern Myanmar that serves as a key gateway for cross-border trade and travel with Thailand.
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C.
Myitkyina
Myitkyina is the capital of Kachin State in northern Myanmar, known as a key regional center and transport hub near the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River.
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D.
Amarapura
Amarapura is a former royal city in Myanmar renowned for its role as an early Burmese capital and for landmarks such as the U Bein Bridge.
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E.
Sittwe
Sittwe is a coastal city in western Myanmar that has been a focal point of political unrest and ethnic tensions, including major protests during the Saffron Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
populated place ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | capital city of Mon State ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Mon State ⓘ |
| climate | tropical monsoon climate ⓘ |
| coastalCity | true ⓘ |
| connectedBy |
railway to Yangon
ⓘ
road to Yangon ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| elevation | near sea level ⓘ |
| formerName |
Maulmain
ⓘ
Moulmein ⓘ
linked to:
Mawlamyine
|
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing industry
ⓘ
rice trade ⓘ timber trade ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
Bamar people
ⓘ
linked to:
Bamar
Karen people ⓘ Mon people ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Judson Church
ⓘ
Kyaikthanlan Pagoda ⓘ Mahamyatmuni Pagoda ⓘ St. Matthew’s Church ⓘ Uzina Pagoda ⓘ old colonial-era buildings ⓘ |
| hasPort |
river port
ⓘ
sea port ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
cultural center
ⓘ
important port ⓘ |
| isRegionalCenterFor |
administration in Mon State
ⓘ
education in Mon State ⓘ trade in southeastern Myanmar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Buddhist pagodas
ⓘ
colonial architecture ⓘ river and sea trade ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Burmese
ⓘ
Mon language ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Mon State ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | Mon State ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
southeastern Myanmar
ⓘ
linked to:
Southeastern Myanmar
|
| locatedNear | Gulf of Martaban ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Thanlwin River ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiverBank | eastern bank of Thanlwin River ⓘ |
| majorReligion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lower Myanmar
ⓘ
linked to:
southern Myanmar
|
| region | Tanintharyi coastal area influence ⓘ |
| servedBy | Mawlamyine Airport ⓘ |
| timeZone | Myanmar Standard Time ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +6:30 ⓘ |
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: Mawlamyine Description of subject: Mawlamyine is a coastal city in southeastern Myanmar and the capital of Mon State, known historically as an important port and cultural center.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mawlamyine
subject linked to:
southern Myanmar
linked to: Mawlamyine
linked to: Mawlamyine