Meknes
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Meknes is a historic imperial city in northern Morocco known for its grand gates, monumental architecture, and UNESCO-listed medina.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meknes canonical | 29 |
| Meknès | 7 |
| Meknes medina | 3 |
| medina of Meknes | 3 |
| Medina of Meknes | 2 |
| Meknès Prefecture | 2 |
| imperial city of Meknes | 2 |
| Historic City of Meknes | 1 |
| Meknes Medina | 1 |
| Meknes medina souks | 1 |
| city of Meknes | 1 |
| municipality of Meknes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T349428 — 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: Meknes Context triple: [Morocco, containsCity, Meknes]
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A.
Marrakesh
Marrakesh is a historic and vibrant city in western Morocco, renowned for its bustling medina, iconic red sandstone architecture, and rich cultural heritage.
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Rabat
Rabat is the capital city of Morocco, located on the Atlantic coast and known for its historic medina, coastal fortifications, and role as a political and administrative center.
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Agadir
Agadir is a major coastal city in southwestern Morocco known for its Atlantic beaches, modern resort infrastructure, and role as a key tourist destination.
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Kairouan
Kairouan is an ancient Islamic city in central Tunisia renowned for its historic mosques, traditional architecture, and status as a major center of early Muslim scholarship and pilgrimage.
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Algiers
Algiers is the capital and largest city of Algeria, a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
- 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: Meknes Target entity description: Meknes is a historic imperial city in northern Morocco known for its grand gates, monumental architecture, and UNESCO-listed medina.
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A.
Marrakesh
Marrakesh is a historic and vibrant city in western Morocco, renowned for its bustling medina, iconic red sandstone architecture, and rich cultural heritage.
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B.
Rabat
Rabat is the capital city of Morocco, located on the Atlantic coast and known for its historic medina, coastal fortifications, and role as a political and administrative center.
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C.
Agadir
Agadir is a major coastal city in southwestern Morocco known for its Atlantic beaches, modern resort infrastructure, and role as a key tourist destination.
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D.
Kairouan
Kairouan is an ancient Islamic city in central Tunisia renowned for its historic mosques, traditional architecture, and status as a major center of early Muslim scholarship and pilgrimage.
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E.
Algiers
Algiers is the capital and largest city of Algeria, a major political, economic, and cultural center on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Meknes Description of subject: Meknes is a historic imperial city in northern Morocco known for its grand gates, monumental architecture, and UNESCO-listed medina.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Aubagne, France
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Dar El Makhzen
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Dar El Makhzen
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