Mid-Western Region
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Mid-Western Region was a former administrative region in southern Nigeria, created during the First Republic and later reorganized into modern Nigerian states.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mid-Western Region canonical | 2 |
| Mid-Western State | 1 |
| Mid-Western State (after 1967 reclassification) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10856433 — 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: Mid-Western Region Context triple: [First Republic of Nigeria, hadRegion, Mid-Western Region]
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A.
Mid-West Region
The Mid-West Region is an administrative and statistical region of Ireland that includes counties such as Limerick and is known for its mix of urban centers, rural landscapes, and economic activity around the city of Limerick and the Shannon Estuary.
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B.
Midwest Region
The Midwest Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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C.
Western North Region
Western North Region is an administrative region in southwestern Ghana, created in 2019 after being carved out of the former Western Region, with a largely rural economy centered on agriculture and cocoa production.
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D.
North Central
North Central is one of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, encompassing several states in the country’s middle belt region.
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E.
Mid-Continent Region
The Mid-Continent Region is a regional office of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement responsible for overseeing coal mining regulation and land reclamation in the central United States.
- 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: Mid-Western Region Target entity description: Mid-Western Region was a former administrative region in southern Nigeria, created during the First Republic and later reorganized into modern Nigerian states.
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A.
Mid-West Region
The Mid-West Region is an administrative and statistical region of Ireland that includes counties such as Limerick and is known for its mix of urban centers, rural landscapes, and economic activity around the city of Limerick and the Shannon Estuary.
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B.
Midwest Region
The Midwest Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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C.
Western North Region
Western North Region is an administrative region in southwestern Ghana, created in 2019 after being carved out of the former Western Region, with a largely rural economy centered on agriculture and cocoa production.
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D.
North Central
North Central is one of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, encompassing several states in the country’s middle belt region.
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E.
Mid-Continent Region
The Mid-Continent Region is a regional office of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement responsible for overseeing coal mining regulation and land reclamation in the central United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former administrative region
ⓘ
subnational entity ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Eastern Region, Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
East Central State of Nigeria
Mid-Western State (after 1967 reclassification) ⓘ
linked to:
Mid-Western Region
Western Region, Nigeria ⓘ
linked to:
Western Nigeria
|
| capital | Benin City ⓘ |
| containsEthnicGroup |
Anioma (Igbo) people
ⓘ
linked to:
Ukwuani people
Edo people ⓘ Isoko people ⓘ Itsekiri people ⓘ Urhobo people ⓘ |
| containsHistoricArea |
present-day Delta State
ⓘ
present-day Edo State ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| createdDuring |
First Nigerian Republic
ⓘ
linked to:
First Republic of Nigeria
|
| createdFrom |
Western Region, Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Nigeria
|
| currency | Nigerian pound ⓘ |
| dateEstablished | 1963-06-09 ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1976-02-03 ⓘ |
| firstPremier | Dennis Osadebay ⓘ |
| governmentType | regional government ⓘ |
| hasMajorCity |
Agbor
ⓘ
Asaba ⓘ Benin City ⓘ Sapele ⓘ Warri ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentTitle | Premier ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | only region created by popular referendum in Nigeria ⓘ |
| legalBasis | 1963 Nigerian constitutional amendment ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern Nigeria ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Federal Republic of Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
Nigeria
Nigerian First Republic regional structure ⓘ |
| partOfHistoricalEvent | Nigerian state creation of 1963 ⓘ |
| reasonForCreation | ethnic and political demands for autonomy from Western Region ⓘ |
| reclassificationDate | 1967-05-27 ⓘ |
| reclassifiedAs |
Mid-Western State
ⓘ
linked to:
Mid-Western Region
|
| referendumHeld | 1963 ⓘ |
| reorganizedInto |
Bendel State
ⓘ
linked to:
Edo State
|
| successor |
Bendel State
ⓘ
linked to:
Edo State
Delta State ⓘ
linked to:
Delta State, Nigeria
Edo State ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Mid-Western Region Description of subject: Mid-Western Region was a former administrative region in southern Nigeria, created during the First Republic and later reorganized into modern Nigerian states.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mid-Western Region
linked to: Mid-Western Region