Kigali
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Kigali is the capital and largest city of Rwanda, known as a major political and economic hub in East Africa.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kigali canonical | 86 |
| Kigali City | 12 |
| Kigali, Rwanda | 7 |
| City of Kigali | 3 |
| Kigali city centre | 3 |
| Kigali (historical) | 1 |
| Kigali City, Rwanda | 1 |
| Kigali metropolitan area | 1 |
| Nyarugenge, Kigali, Rwanda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T657534 — 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: Kigali Context triple: [African Continental Free Trade Area, signingCity, Kigali]
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A.
Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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B.
Africa/Bujumbura
Africa/Bujumbura is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Bujumbura, Burundi, which follows Central Africa Time.
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C.
Butaro, Rwanda
Butaro, Rwanda is a rural town in northern Rwanda known for its innovative, community-focused health facilities and scenic volcanic landscapes.
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D.
Kampala
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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E.
Harare
Harare is the largest city and main economic, political, and cultural center of Zimbabwe.
- 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: Kigali Target entity description: Kigali is the capital and largest city of Rwanda, known as a major political and economic hub in East Africa.
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A.
Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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B.
Africa/Bujumbura
Africa/Bujumbura is the IANA time zone identifier representing the local time observed in Bujumbura, Burundi, which follows Central Africa Time.
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C.
Butaro, Rwanda
Butaro, Rwanda is a rural town in northern Rwanda known for its innovative, community-focused health facilities and scenic volcanic landscapes.
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D.
Kampala
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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E.
Harare
Harare is the largest city and main economic, political, and cultural center of Zimbabwe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Kigali Description of subject: Kigali is the capital and largest city of Rwanda, known as a major political and economic hub in East Africa.
Referenced by (115)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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KGL
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