Samarinda
E74894
Samarinda is the capital and largest city of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo, known as a key regional center for trade, industry, and river transport along the Mahakam River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samarinda canonical | 17 |
| Samarinda City | 2 |
| Samarinda city government | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T586490 — 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: Samarinda Context triple: [Borneo, majorCity, Samarinda]
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A.
Banjarmasin
Banjarmasin is a major riverine city in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, known for its historic floating markets and strategic location on the island of Borneo.
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B.
Balikpapan
Balikpapan is a coastal city in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, known as a major oil and gas hub and one of the most developed urban centers on the island of Borneo.
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C.
Pontianak
Pontianak is the capital city of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia, known as an equatorial river port with a significant Chinese Indonesian community.
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D.
Singkawang
Singkawang is a city in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, known for its large Chinese Indonesian community and vibrant Chinese cultural festivals, especially its Cap Go Meh celebrations.
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E.
Makassar
Makassar is a major port city on the southwest coast of Sulawesi known historically as a key maritime trading hub in eastern Indonesia.
- 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: Samarinda Target entity description: Samarinda is the capital and largest city of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo, known as a key regional center for trade, industry, and river transport along the Mahakam River.
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A.
Banjarmasin
Banjarmasin is a major riverine city in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, known for its historic floating markets and strategic location on the island of Borneo.
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B.
Balikpapan
Balikpapan is a coastal city in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, known as a major oil and gas hub and one of the most developed urban centers on the island of Borneo.
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C.
Pontianak
Pontianak is the capital city of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia, known as an equatorial river port with a significant Chinese Indonesian community.
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D.
Singkawang
Singkawang is a city in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, known for its large Chinese Indonesian community and vibrant Chinese cultural festivals, especially its Cap Go Meh celebrations.
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E.
Makassar
Makassar is a major port city on the southwest coast of Sulawesi known historically as a key maritime trading hub in eastern Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
provincial capital ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | city (kota) in Indonesia ⓘ |
| capitalOf | East Kalimantan ⓘ |
| climate | tropical rainforest climate ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| economicRole |
industrial center
ⓘ
regional trade center ⓘ |
| geographicalSetting |
eastern Borneo
ⓘ
linked to:
East Kalimantan
|
| governingBody |
Samarinda city government
ⓘ
linked to:
Samarinda
|
| hasEconomicSector |
manufacturing industry
ⓘ
services ⓘ trade and commerce ⓘ transport and logistics ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
river port facilities
ⓘ
riverside urban area ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administrative center of East Kalimantan
ⓘ
economic center of East Kalimantan ⓘ transportation hub in East Kalimantan ⓘ |
| hasRiverPort | Mahakam River port ⓘ |
| hasRole | seat of the provincial government of East Kalimantan ⓘ |
| hasTransportMode |
maritime connections via nearby ports
ⓘ
river transport ⓘ road transport ⓘ |
| knownFor |
industry
ⓘ
river transport ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| largestCityOf | East Kalimantan ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Kalimantan
ⓘ
Kalimantan region of Indonesia ⓘ
linked to:
Kalimantan
|
| locatedInArchipelago | Malay Archipelago ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | Indonesian portion of Borneo ⓘ |
| locatedInSeaRegion | maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Borneo ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Mahakam River ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Indonesian ⓘ |
| partOf |
East Kalimantan Province
ⓘ
linked to:
East Kalimantan
Indonesia ⓘ |
| primaryRiver | Mahakam River ⓘ |
| region | Kalimantan ⓘ |
| riverSystem |
Mahakam River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahakam River
|
| timeZone | Central Indonesia Time ⓘ |
| transportRole | regional river transport hub ⓘ |
| urbanClassification | metropolitan area ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +8 ⓘ |
| waterwayImportance | major node on the Mahakam River ⓘ |
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: Samarinda Description of subject: Samarinda is the capital and largest city of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo, known as a key regional center for trade, industry, and river transport along the Mahakam River.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Samarinda
subject linked to:
Jalan Jenderal Sudirman (major streets in Indonesian cities)
linked to: Samarinda
linked to: Samarinda