Ipoh
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Ipoh is a prominent city in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, known for its colonial-era architecture, limestone hills and caves, and vibrant food scene.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ipoh canonical | 81 |
| Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia | 3 |
| Ipoh city centre | 2 |
| city of Ipoh | 2 |
| Greater Ipoh (functional region) | 1 |
| Ipoh (later administrative centre) | 1 |
| Ipoh Old Town | 1 |
| Ipoh Old Town murals | 1 |
| Ipoh city area | 1 |
| Old Town Ipoh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T431515 — 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: Ipoh Context triple: [Malaysia, majorCity, Ipoh]
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A.
Penang
Penang is a Malaysian state and island renowned for its multicultural heritage, historic George Town, and vibrant street food scene.
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B.
Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru is a large, rapidly developing city in southern Peninsular Malaysia, located just across the causeway from Singapore and serving as the capital of Johor state.
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C.
Kedah
Kedah is a state in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, historically significant as one of the oldest Malay kingdoms and once part of British Malaya.
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D.
Putrajaya
Putrajaya is Malaysia’s planned federal administrative capital, known for its modern architecture, landscaped boulevards, and numerous government complexes.
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E.
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and largest city of Malaysia, known for its modern skyline dominated by the Petronas Twin Towers and its role as the country’s cultural, financial, and economic center.
- 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: Ipoh Target entity description: Ipoh is a prominent city in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, known for its colonial-era architecture, limestone hills and caves, and vibrant food scene.
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A.
Penang
Penang is a Malaysian state and island renowned for its multicultural heritage, historic George Town, and vibrant street food scene.
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B.
Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru is a large, rapidly developing city in southern Peninsular Malaysia, located just across the causeway from Singapore and serving as the capital of Johor state.
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C.
Kedah
Kedah is a state in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, historically significant as one of the oldest Malay kingdoms and once part of British Malaya.
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D.
Putrajaya
Putrajaya is Malaysia’s planned federal administrative capital, known for its modern architecture, landscaped boulevards, and numerous government complexes.
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E.
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and largest city of Malaysia, known for its modern skyline dominated by the Petronas Twin Towers and its role as the country’s cultural, financial, and economic center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Ipoh Description of subject: Ipoh is a prominent city in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, known for its colonial-era architecture, limestone hills and caves, and vibrant food scene.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Kellie’s Castle (near Ipoh)
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subject linked to:
connected to North–South Expressway