Minna
E63605
Minna is a major city and administrative center in north-central Nigeria, known as the capital of Niger State and a regional hub for trade and transportation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minna canonical | 36 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T480414 — 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: Minna Context triple: [Northern Nigeria, hasMajorCity, Minna]
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A.
Hana
Hana is a compassionate Canadian army nurse in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," who cares for a badly burned man in an abandoned Italian villa during World War II.
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B.
Mina
Mina is a valley and neighborhood near Mecca in Saudi Arabia that serves as a major site for key Hajj rituals, including the symbolic stoning of the devil.
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C.
Shōda
Shōda is a Japanese surname notably borne by Michiko Shōda, who became Empress Michiko of Japan.
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D.
Mori
Mori is a Japanese surname shared by various notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and politics.
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E.
Runashimi
Runashimi is the Indigenous Kichwa (Quechua) language spoken primarily in the Andean regions of South America.
- 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: Minna Target entity description: Minna is a major city and administrative center in north-central Nigeria, known as the capital of Niger State and a regional hub for trade and transportation.
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A.
Hana
Hana is a compassionate Canadian army nurse in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," who cares for a badly burned man in an abandoned Italian villa during World War II.
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B.
Mina
Mina is a valley and neighborhood near Mecca in Saudi Arabia that serves as a major site for key Hajj rituals, including the symbolic stoning of the devil.
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C.
Shōda
Shōda is a Japanese surname notably borne by Michiko Shōda, who became Empress Michiko of Japan.
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D.
Mori
Mori is a Japanese surname shared by various notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and politics.
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E.
Runashimi
Runashimi is the Indigenous Kichwa (Quechua) language spoken primarily in the Andean regions of South America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
city ⓘ mosque ⓘ regional capital ⓘ university ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Niger State ⓘ |
| climate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
North Central geopolitical zone of Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Nigeria
|
| economicActivity |
agricultural trade
ⓘ
livestock trade ⓘ retail commerce ⓘ |
| governingBody | Minna Municipal authorities ⓘ |
| hasAirport |
Minna Airport
ⓘ
linked to:
Osubi Airport
|
| hasEducationalInstitution | Federal University of Technology Minna ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administrative headquarters of Niger State
ⓘ
commercial centre ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Central Mosque of Minna ⓘ |
| isCapitalCityOf |
Niger State Government
ⓘ
linked to:
Niger State
|
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Gbagyi ⓘ Hausa ⓘ Nupe ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minna
ⓘ
Minna ⓘ Niger State ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
north-central Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
North Central Nigeria
|
| nearbyCity |
Abuja
ⓘ
Bida ⓘ Suleja ⓘ |
| railwayConnection | Nigerian Railway Corporation network ⓘ |
| region |
Middle Belt of Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Nigeria
|
| roadConnection |
Abuja
ⓘ
Bida ⓘ Kaduna ⓘ Suleja ⓘ |
| role |
administrative centre
ⓘ
trade hub ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ |
| serves | Minna ⓘ |
| timeZone |
West Africa Time
ⓘ
linked to:
West Africa Time (WAT)
|
| transportMode |
air transport
ⓘ
rail transport ⓘ road transport ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +1 ⓘ |
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: Minna Description of subject: Minna is a major city and administrative center in north-central Nigeria, known as the capital of Niger State and a regional hub for trade and transportation.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
General Abdulsalami Abubakar
subject linked to:
General Abdulsalami Abubakar
subject linked to:
Babangida
School of Engineering and Engineering Technology, Federal University of Technology Minna
→
city
→
Minna
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subject linked to:
School of Engineering and Engineering Technology
School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology Minna
→
locatedIn
→
Minna
ⓘ
subject linked to:
School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology
School of Information and Communication Technology, Federal University of Technology Minna
→
locatedIn
→
Minna
ⓘ
subject linked to:
School of Information and Communication Technology
subject linked to:
School of Physical Sciences