Swan River Colony
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Swan River Colony was an early 19th-century British settlement on the west coast of Australia that evolved into the city of Perth and the surrounding region of Western Australia.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colony of Western Australia | 8 |
| Swan River Colony canonical | 6 |
| Founding of the Swan River Colony | 1 |
| Swan River Colony settlement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T729902 — 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: Swan River Colony Context triple: [Perth, foundedAs, Swan River Colony]
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Natal Colony
The Natal Colony was a British-controlled region in southeastern Africa that later became part of modern South Africa and played a significant role in colonial-era conflicts and politics.
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South Australia
South Australia is a large, sparsely populated Australian state in the central-southern part of the country, known for its wine regions, desert landscapes, and coastal capital city Adelaide.
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Rupert's Land
Rupert's Land was a vast territory in British North America, encompassing much of present-day Canada’s northern and central regions, historically controlled and administered by the Hudson’s Bay Company.
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New South Wales
New South Wales is a state on Australia’s east coast, centered on the city of Sydney and historically significant as the site of the first permanent British settlement on the continent.
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Port Arthur
Port Arthur is an industrial city in southeast Texas known for its major oil refineries and petrochemical facilities along the Gulf Coast.
- 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: Swan River Colony Target entity description: Swan River Colony was an early 19th-century British settlement on the west coast of Australia that evolved into the city of Perth and the surrounding region of Western Australia.
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A.
Natal Colony
The Natal Colony was a British-controlled region in southeastern Africa that later became part of modern South Africa and played a significant role in colonial-era conflicts and politics.
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B.
South Australia
South Australia is a large, sparsely populated Australian state in the central-southern part of the country, known for its wine regions, desert landscapes, and coastal capital city Adelaide.
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C.
Rupert's Land
Rupert's Land was a vast territory in British North America, encompassing much of present-day Canada’s northern and central regions, historically controlled and administered by the Hudson’s Bay Company.
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D.
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state on Australia’s east coast, centered on the city of Sydney and historically significant as the site of the first permanent British settlement on the continent.
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E.
Port Arthur
Port Arthur is an industrial city in southeast Texas known for its major oil refineries and petrochemical facilities along the Gulf Coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Swan River Colony Description of subject: Swan River Colony was an early 19th-century British settlement on the west coast of Australia that evolved into the city of Perth and the surrounding region of Western Australia.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Captain James Stirling
Colonial Secretary of Western Australia (as chief ministerial role)
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Colony of Western Australia
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subject linked to:
Sir Walter James
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