Jirapa
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Jirapa is a town in Ghana that serves as a local administrative and commercial center in the country’s Upper West Region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jirapa canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5509601 — 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: Jirapa Context triple: [Upper West Region, hasSettlement, Jirapa]
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A.
Duitama
Duitama is a Colombian city in the Andean highlands known as an important commercial and transport hub within the Boyacá region.
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B.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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C.
Okitipupa
Okitipupa is a prominent town in southwestern Nigeria known as a commercial and administrative center within Ondo State.
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D.
Lokoja
Lokoja is a city in central Nigeria located at the strategic confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers and serves as the capital of Kogi State.
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E.
Kukawa
Kukawa is a historic town in northeastern Nigeria that once served as the political and cultural center of the Kanuri people and the Bornu Empire.
- 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: Jirapa Target entity description: Jirapa is a town in Ghana that serves as a local administrative and commercial center in the country’s Upper West Region.
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A.
Duitama
Duitama is a Colombian city in the Andean highlands known as an important commercial and transport hub within the Boyacá region.
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B.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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C.
Okitipupa
Okitipupa is a prominent town in southwestern Nigeria known as a commercial and administrative center within Ondo State.
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D.
Lokoja
Lokoja is a city in central Nigeria located at the strategic confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers and serves as the capital of Kogi State.
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E.
Kukawa
Kukawa is a historic town in northeastern Nigeria that once served as the political and cultural center of the Kanuri people and the Bornu Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | municipal capital ⓘ |
| climate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| country | Ghana ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Upper West Region ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Jirapa Municipal Assembly
ⓘ
linked to:
Jirapa Municipal District
|
| hasFacility |
Catholic church
ⓘ
Jirapa Hospital ⓘ market ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Lawra
ⓘ
Nadowli ⓘ Ullo ⓘ |
| hasReligionPresence |
Catholicism
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Traditional religion ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Dagaare
ⓘ
linked to:
Dagaaba
English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jirapa Municipal District
ⓘ
Upper West Region ⓘ |
| mainEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
trade ⓘ |
| regionType |
Northern Ghana
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Region of Ghana
|
| roadConnection |
Lawra
ⓘ
Wa ⓘ |
| role |
administrative centre
ⓘ
commercial centre ⓘ |
| timeZone | GMT ⓘ |
| transportMode | road transport ⓘ |
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: Jirapa Description of subject: Jirapa is a town in Ghana that serves as a local administrative and commercial center in the country’s Upper West Region.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.