Aqaba
E90436
Aqaba is Jordan’s only coastal city, a key Red Sea port and popular resort destination known for its beaches, coral reefs, and strategic location near the borders with Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aqaba canonical | 46 |
| Aqaba Special Economic Zone | 3 |
| Aila (Aqaba) | 1 |
| Aqaba Port | 1 |
| Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority area | 1 |
| Red Sea resort city of Aqaba | 1 |
| al-Aqaba | 1 |
| city of Aqaba | 1 |
| مدينة العقبة | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T656406 — 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: Aqaba Context triple: [Jordan, majorCity, Aqaba]
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A.
El Arish
El Arish is a coastal city in northeastern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea, serving as the capital and main urban center of North Sinai Governorate.
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B.
Dahab
Dahab is a small Egyptian resort town on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula, known for its laid-back atmosphere, diving spots, and windsurfing.
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C.
Sharm El Sheikh
Sharm El Sheikh is a popular Egyptian resort city on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, known for its Red Sea beaches, coral reefs, and diving.
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D.
Kel Ajjer
Kel Ajjer is a prominent Tuareg confederation traditionally inhabiting the central Sahara region spanning parts of present-day Algeria and Libya.
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E.
Zarqa
Zarqa is a large industrial city in northeastern Jordan known for its factories, military presence, and role as a key economic hub.
- 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: Aqaba Target entity description: Aqaba is Jordan’s only coastal city, a key Red Sea port and popular resort destination known for its beaches, coral reefs, and strategic location near the borders with Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
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A.
El Arish
El Arish is a coastal city in northeastern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea, serving as the capital and main urban center of North Sinai Governorate.
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B.
Dahab
Dahab is a small Egyptian resort town on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula, known for its laid-back atmosphere, diving spots, and windsurfing.
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C.
Sharm El Sheikh
Sharm El Sheikh is a popular Egyptian resort city on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, known for its Red Sea beaches, coral reefs, and diving.
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D.
Kel Ajjer
Kel Ajjer is a prominent Tuareg confederation traditionally inhabiting the central Sahara region spanning parts of present-day Algeria and Libya.
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E.
Zarqa
Zarqa is a large industrial city in northeastern Jordan known for its factories, military presence, and role as a key economic hub.
- 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: Aqaba Description of subject: Aqaba is Jordan’s only coastal city, a key Red Sea port and popular resort destination known for its beaches, coral reefs, and strategic location near the borders with Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Aqaba
linked to: Aqaba
linked to: Aqaba
linked to: Aqaba
subject linked to:
Roman province of Arabia Petraea
linked to: Aqaba
subject linked to:
southwestern Jordan
linked to: Aqaba