Ouagadougou
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Ouagadougou is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center in the Sahel region.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ouagadougou canonical | 66 |
| Ouagadougou Mossi | 2 |
| Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | 2 |
| Etoile Filante de Ouagadougou | 1 |
| Ouagadougou area | 1 |
| Ouagadougou metropolitan area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T540182 — 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: Ouagadougou Context triple: [West Africa, hasMajorCity, Ouagadougou]
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Bamako
Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in West Africa.
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B.
Brazzaville
Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo, located on the Congo River directly across from Kinshasa in Central Africa.
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C.
Abidjan
Abidjan is a major economic and cultural hub on the southern coast of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its bustling port, modern skyline, and status as one of the largest cities in West Africa.
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D.
Dakar
Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal, located on the Atlantic coast and serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub of West Africa.
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E.
Malabo
Malabo is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
- 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: Ouagadougou Target entity description: Ouagadougou is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center in the Sahel region.
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A.
Bamako
Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, serving as a major political, economic, and cultural center in West Africa.
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B.
Brazzaville
Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo, located on the Congo River directly across from Kinshasa in Central Africa.
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C.
Abidjan
Abidjan is a major economic and cultural hub on the southern coast of Côte d'Ivoire, known for its bustling port, modern skyline, and status as one of the largest cities in West Africa.
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D.
Dakar
Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal, located on the Atlantic coast and serving as a major political, economic, and cultural hub of West Africa.
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E.
Malabo
Malabo is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Ouagadougou Description of subject: Ouagadougou is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center in the Sahel region.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ouagadougou
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
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adoptionPlace
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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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linked to: Ouagadougou
subject linked to:
Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso
subject linked to:
Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso
linked to: Ouagadougou
linked to: Ouagadougou
linked to: Ouagadougou
subject linked to:
Burkina Faso football federation