Freetown
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Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, known as a historic port and former center for resettled freed slaves in West Africa.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Freetown canonical | 99 |
| Freetown, Sierra Leone | 6 |
| Freetown Peninsula | 3 |
| Greater Freetown area | 3 |
| Freetown metropolitan area | 2 |
| Freetown City Council | 1 |
| Freetown colony | 1 |
| Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone | 1 |
| Greater Freetown urban area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T540184 — 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: Freetown Context triple: [West Africa, hasMajorCity, Freetown]
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A.
Monrovia
Monrovia is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Liberia, located on the Atlantic coast in West Africa.
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B.
Accra
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, known as a major economic, political, and cultural hub in West Africa.
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C.
Conakry
Conakry is the capital and largest city of Guinea, serving as its main economic, cultural, and administrative center on the Atlantic coast of West Africa.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Freetown Target entity description: Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, known as a historic port and former center for resettled freed slaves in West Africa.
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A.
Monrovia
Monrovia is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Liberia, located on the Atlantic coast in West Africa.
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B.
Accra
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, known as a major economic, political, and cultural hub in West Africa.
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C.
Conakry
Conakry is the capital and largest city of Guinea, serving as its main economic, cultural, and administrative center on the Atlantic coast of West Africa.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Freetown Description of subject: Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, known as a historic port and former center for resettled freed slaves in West Africa.
Referenced by (117)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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MRU
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