Koper
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Koper is a coastal city in southwestern Slovenia on the Adriatic Sea, known as the country’s only commercial port and a historic center with Venetian and medieval heritage.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koper canonical | 34 |
| Port of Koper | 4 |
| Koper old town | 2 |
| Municipality of Koper | 1 |
| city of Koper | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T619625 — 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: Koper Context triple: [Yugoslavia–Italy border, hadBorderTown, Koper]
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A.
Gorizia
Gorizia is a historic town in northeastern Italy, near the Slovenian border, known for its mixed Italian-Slovenian cultural heritage and its strategic position that once placed it at the frontier between Western and Eastern Europe.
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B.
Ragusa
Ragusa is a historic baroque hilltop city in southeastern Sicily, Italy, renowned for its UNESCO-listed old town and distinctive architecture.
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C.
Barcola
Barcola is a coastal district of Trieste, Italy, known for its seafront promenade, beaches, and views of the Gulf of Trieste.
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D.
Zadar
Zadar is a historic coastal city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea, known for its Roman and Venetian ruins, medieval churches, and modern seaside installations like the Sea Organ.
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E.
Rovinj
Rovinj is a picturesque coastal town on Croatia’s Istrian peninsula, known for its colorful old town, fishing harbor, and popular seaside tourism.
- 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: Koper Target entity description: Koper is a coastal city in southwestern Slovenia on the Adriatic Sea, known as the country’s only commercial port and a historic center with Venetian and medieval heritage.
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A.
Gorizia
Gorizia is a historic town in northeastern Italy, near the Slovenian border, known for its mixed Italian-Slovenian cultural heritage and its strategic position that once placed it at the frontier between Western and Eastern Europe.
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B.
Ragusa
Ragusa is a historic baroque hilltop city in southeastern Sicily, Italy, renowned for its UNESCO-listed old town and distinctive architecture.
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C.
Barcola
Barcola is a coastal district of Trieste, Italy, known for its seafront promenade, beaches, and views of the Gulf of Trieste.
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D.
Zadar
Zadar is a historic coastal city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea, known for its Roman and Venetian ruins, medieval churches, and modern seaside installations like the Sea Organ.
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E.
Rovinj
Rovinj is a picturesque coastal town on Croatia’s Istrian peninsula, known for its colorful old town, fishing harbor, and popular seaside tourism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
coastal city ⓘ |
| borderProximity | near Italian border ⓘ |
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country | Slovenia ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic city walls remnants
ⓘ
marina ⓘ promenade ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
Venetian
ⓘ
medieval ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Campanile of Koper Cathedral
ⓘ
Koper Cathedral (Cathedral of the Assumption) ⓘ Loggia Palace ⓘ Muda Gate ⓘ Praetorian Palace ⓘ Titov trg (Tito Square) ⓘ |
| hasMinorityLanguage | Italian ⓘ |
| hasOldTown | yes ⓘ |
| hasPort |
Port of Koper
ⓘ
linked to:
Koper
|
| hasRole |
commercial port
ⓘ
major seaport ⓘ regional economic center ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | University of Primorska ⓘ |
| historicalName |
Capodistria
ⓘ
Capris ⓘ |
| historicalNameLanguage |
Italian
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| is |
historic city
ⓘ
only commercial port of Slovenia ⓘ |
| isSeatOf |
Municipality of Koper
ⓘ
linked to:
Koper
Roman Catholic Diocese of Koper ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Slovenia ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Southwestern Slovenia
ⓘ
linked to:
Slovenian Littoral
|
| locatedOn | Adriatic Sea ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Slovene ⓘ |
| partOf |
Istria
ⓘ
Littoral region of Slovenia ⓘ
linked to:
Slovenian Littoral
|
| primaryEconomicActivity |
logistics
ⓘ
maritime trade ⓘ services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| tourismAttractionType | historic coastal town ⓘ |
| transportInfrastructure |
cargo terminals
ⓘ
container terminal ⓘ highway connections to Ljubljana ⓘ rail connections to inland Slovenia ⓘ |
| wasPartOf |
Austro-Hungarian Empire
ⓘ
Kingdom of Italy ⓘ Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ⓘ
linked to:
Yugoslavia
|
| wasRuledBy | Republic of Venice ⓘ |
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: Koper Description of subject: Koper is a coastal city in southwestern Slovenia on the Adriatic Sea, known as the country’s only commercial port and a historic center with Venetian and medieval heritage.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Koper
linked to: Koper
linked to: Koper
subject linked to:
Koper Cathedral (Cathedral of the Assumption)
subject linked to:
Titov trg (Tito Square)
subject linked to:
Titov trg (Tito Square)
linked to: Koper
subject linked to:
Titov trg (Tito Square)
linked to: Koper
subject linked to:
Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste to Yugoslavia
linked to: Koper