Mataram
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Mataram was the principal urban and political center of the early Javanese Medang Kingdom, serving as a key hub of power and culture in central Java.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mataram canonical | 9 |
| Mataram (Central Java) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T713957 — 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: Mataram Context triple: [Medang Kingdom, capital, Mataram]
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A.
Malang
Malang is a major city in East Java, Indonesia, known for its cool climate, colonial-era architecture, and proximity to popular mountain and volcanic tourist destinations.
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B.
Cirebon
Cirebon is a coastal city in West Java, Indonesia, known as a cultural crossroads blending Sundanese and Javanese influences and serving as a significant regional trading and urban center.
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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.
Kendari
Kendari is the capital and largest city of Southeast Sulawesi Province on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, known as a regional center for trade and maritime activities.
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E.
Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta is a major cultural and educational city on the Indonesian island of Java, renowned for its traditional arts, universities, and proximity to the Borobudur and Prambanan temples.
- 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: Mataram Target entity description: Mataram was the principal urban and political center of the early Javanese Medang Kingdom, serving as a key hub of power and culture in central Java.
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A.
Malang
Malang is a major city in East Java, Indonesia, known for its cool climate, colonial-era architecture, and proximity to popular mountain and volcanic tourist destinations.
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B.
Cirebon
Cirebon is a coastal city in West Java, Indonesia, known as a cultural crossroads blending Sundanese and Javanese influences and serving as a significant regional trading and urban center.
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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.
Kendari
Kendari is the capital and largest city of Southeast Sulawesi Province on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, known as a regional center for trade and maritime activities.
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E.
Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta is a major cultural and educational city on the Indonesian island of Java, renowned for its traditional arts, universities, and proximity to the Borobudur and Prambanan temples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former capital
ⓘ
historical city ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Medang Kingdom
ⓘ
early Javanese civilization ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Medang Kingdom ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Medang Kingdom ⓘ |
| culture | Javanese ⓘ |
| disestablishedBy | shift of Medang power to eastern Java ⓘ |
| flourishedInCentury |
10th century
ⓘ
8th century ⓘ 9th century ⓘ |
| historicalSuccessor | eastern Java centers of Medang ⓘ |
| knownFor |
court culture
ⓘ
temple-building activity ⓘ |
| language |
Old Javanese
ⓘ
linked to:
Kawi (Old Javanese)
|
| locatedIn |
Central Java
ⓘ
linked to:
Java
Indonesia ⓘ Java ⓘ |
| near |
Merapi volcano
ⓘ
linked to:
Mount Merapi
Progo River ⓘ |
| partOf | ancient Java ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | monarchy ⓘ |
| region | Kedu Plain ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ |
| role |
cultural center
ⓘ
political center ⓘ principal urban center ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early medieval period ⓘ |
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: Mataram Description of subject: Mataram was the principal urban and political center of the early Javanese Medang Kingdom, serving as a key hub of power and culture in central Java.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.