Sabah
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Sabah is a Malaysian state on the northern portion of Borneo, known for its rich biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and iconic Mount Kinabalu.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sabah canonical | 288 |
| State of Sabah | 7 |
| Sabah, Malaysia | 4 |
| state of Sabah | 4 |
| northern Sabah | 2 |
| Malaysian state of Sabah | 1 |
| North Borneo (region) | 1 |
| Northern Borneo | 1 |
| Sabah (for native language promotion contexts) | 1 |
| Sabah region | 1 |
| Sabah, Malaysian Borneo | 1 |
| northern Borneo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T431470 — 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: Sabah Context triple: [Malaysia, containsAdministrativeDivision, Sabah]
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A.
Sarawak
Sarawak is a resource-rich Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, known for its diverse indigenous cultures, extensive rainforests, and long history under the rule of the White Rajahs before joining Malaysia.
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B.
Pahang
Pahang is a large Malaysian state on the eastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, known for its extensive rainforests, highlands like Cameron Highlands, and long South China Sea coastline.
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C.
Johor
Johor is a state in southern Peninsular Malaysia known for its strategic location bordering Singapore, diverse economy, and rich Malay cultural heritage.
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D.
Perak
Perak is a Malaysian state on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, historically known for its rich tin deposits and former status as a key sultanate within British Malaya.
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E.
Labuan
Labuan is a federal territory of Malaysia comprising a main island and several smaller ones, known as an offshore financial center and duty-free port off the coast of Borneo.
- 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: Sabah Target entity description: Sabah is a Malaysian state on the northern portion of Borneo, known for its rich biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and iconic Mount Kinabalu.
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A.
Sarawak
Sarawak is a resource-rich Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, known for its diverse indigenous cultures, extensive rainforests, and long history under the rule of the White Rajahs before joining Malaysia.
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B.
Pahang
Pahang is a large Malaysian state on the eastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, known for its extensive rainforests, highlands like Cameron Highlands, and long South China Sea coastline.
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C.
Johor
Johor is a state in southern Peninsular Malaysia known for its strategic location bordering Singapore, diverse economy, and rich Malay cultural heritage.
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D.
Perak
Perak is a Malaysian state on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, historically known for its rich tin deposits and former status as a key sultanate within British Malaya.
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E.
Labuan
Labuan is a federal territory of Malaysia comprising a main island and several smaller ones, known as an offshore financial center and duty-free port off the coast of Borneo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Sabah Description of subject: Sabah is a Malaysian state on the northern portion of Borneo, known for its rich biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and iconic Mount Kinabalu.
Referenced by (312)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sabah
subject linked to:
sapeh (lute)
linked to: Sabah
subject linked to:
Crown Colony of Labuan (reassigned)
linked to: Sabah