Beruwala
E402882
Beruwala is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, fishing harbor, and historic Muslim community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beruwala canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3951155 — 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: Beruwala Context triple: [A2 coastal highway, passesThroughCity, Beruwala]
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A.
Bahraich
Bahraich is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known for its location in the Terai region near the Nepal border and its historical and cultural significance.
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B.
Ras al-Amud
Ras al-Amud is a predominantly Palestinian residential neighborhood located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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C.
Shawiya
Shawiya refers to an Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group and their Zenati Berber language spoken primarily in the Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria.
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D.
Jowhar
Jowhar is a town in southern Somalia that serves as the capital of the Middle Shabelle region and an important agricultural and administrative center.
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E.
Za'atara
Za'atara is a Palestinian town located in the central West Bank within the Bethlehem Governorate.
- 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: Beruwala Target entity description: Beruwala is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, fishing harbor, and historic Muslim community.
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A.
Bahraich
Bahraich is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known for its location in the Terai region near the Nepal border and its historical and cultural significance.
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B.
Ras al-Amud
Ras al-Amud is a predominantly Palestinian residential neighborhood located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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C.
Shawiya
Shawiya refers to an Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group and their Zenati Berber language spoken primarily in the Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria.
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D.
Jowhar
Jowhar is a town in southern Somalia that serves as the capital of the Middle Shabelle region and an important agricultural and administrative center.
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E.
Za'atara
Za'atara is a Palestinian town located in the central West Bank within the Bethlehem Governorate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal town
ⓘ
populated place ⓘ |
| climate | tropical climate ⓘ |
| coastType | sandy coast ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| hasEthnicCommunity | Sri Lankan Moors ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
beach
ⓘ
fishing harbour ⓘ lighthouse ⓘ offshore island ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSignificance | early Muslim settlement in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| hasReligiousCommunity |
Buddhists
ⓘ
Christians ⓘ
linked to:
Christian Church
Hindus ⓘ Muslims ⓘ |
| knownFor |
beaches
ⓘ
fishing industry ⓘ historic Muslim community ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
English
ⓘ
Sinhala ⓘ Tamil ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kalutara District
ⓘ
Western Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Indian Ocean
ⓘ
southwestern coast of Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Colombo ⓘ |
| partOf | southwestern Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| timeZone | Sri Lanka Standard Time ⓘ |
| transport |
served by A2 highway
ⓘ
served by coastal railway line ⓘ |
| 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: Beruwala Description of subject: Beruwala is a coastal town in southwestern Sri Lanka known for its beaches, fishing harbor, and historic Muslim community.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.