Windhoek
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Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windhoek canonical | 174 |
| City of Windhoek | 6 |
| Windhoek, Namibia | 4 |
| Africa/Windhoek | 3 |
| Windhoek urban area | 3 |
| City of Windhoek urban area | 2 |
| Windhoek city centre | 2 |
| Windhoek metropolitan area | 2 |
| Windhoek (constituency administrative seat) | 1 |
| Windhoek CBD | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T378280 — 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: Windhoek Context triple: [Southern African Development Community, foundingLocation, Windhoek]
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A.
Luanda
Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
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B.
Lüderitz
Lüderitz is a coastal town in southwestern Namibia known for its Atlantic shoreline, nearby desert landscapes, and rich marine ecosystem influenced by the Benguela Current.
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C.
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein is a major South African city known as the seat of the country’s highest courts and one of its three national capitals.
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D.
Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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E.
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second-largest city and a major industrial, cultural, and transport hub in the southwestern part of the country.
- 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: Windhoek Target entity description: Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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A.
Luanda
Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
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B.
Lüderitz
Lüderitz is a coastal town in southwestern Namibia known for its Atlantic shoreline, nearby desert landscapes, and rich marine ecosystem influenced by the Benguela Current.
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C.
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein is a major South African city known as the seat of the country’s highest courts and one of its three national capitals.
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D.
Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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E.
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second-largest city and a major industrial, cultural, and transport hub in the southwestern part of the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Windhoek Description of subject: Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
Referenced by (198)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Windhoek
subject linked to:
SADC Tribunal (when operational)
subject linked to:
SADC Tribunal (when operational)
linked to: Windhoek
linked to: Windhoek