Ilorin
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Ilorin is a major city in western Nigeria and the capital of Kwara State, known as a historic Yoruba and Islamic cultural center.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ilorin canonical | 42 |
| Ilorin metropolitan area | 2 |
| Ilorin city centre | 1 |
| Ilorin, Kwara State | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T480415 — 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: Ilorin Context triple: [Northern Nigeria, hasMajorCity, Ilorin]
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A.
Ekiti
Ekiti are a subgroup of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, known for their distinct dialect, rich cultural traditions, and strong emphasis on education.
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B.
Ibadan
Ibadan is one of the largest and most populous cities in southwestern Nigeria, historically significant as a major Yoruba cultural and economic center.
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C.
Bauchi
Bauchi is a prominent city in northeastern Nigeria that serves as the capital of Bauchi State and a key commercial and administrative center in the region.
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D.
Kaduna
Kaduna is a major industrial and political center in northern Nigeria, known for its diverse population and role as the capital of Kaduna State.
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E.
Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
- 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: Ilorin Target entity description: Ilorin is a major city in western Nigeria and the capital of Kwara State, known as a historic Yoruba and Islamic cultural center.
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A.
Ekiti
Ekiti are a subgroup of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, known for their distinct dialect, rich cultural traditions, and strong emphasis on education.
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B.
Ibadan
Ibadan is one of the largest and most populous cities in southwestern Nigeria, historically significant as a major Yoruba cultural and economic center.
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C.
Bauchi
Bauchi is a prominent city in northeastern Nigeria that serves as the capital of Bauchi State and a key commercial and administrative center in the region.
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D.
Kaduna
Kaduna is a major industrial and political center in northern Nigeria, known for its diverse population and role as the capital of Kaduna State.
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E.
Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria revered as the spiritual and cultural cradle of the Yoruba people and renowned for its sophisticated early art and urban civilization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Ilorin Description of subject: Ilorin is a major city in western Nigeria and the capital of Kwara State, known as a historic Yoruba and Islamic cultural center.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bukola Saraki (former member)
linked to: Ilorin
linked to: Ilorin
linked to: Ilorin