Lamarela
E924505
Lamarela is a coastal fishing village on the island of Lembata in Indonesia, known for its traditional subsistence whaling practices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lamarela canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11421217 — 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: Lamarela Context triple: [Lembata, containsSettlement, Lamarela]
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A.
Melaque
Melaque is a coastal town in Jalisco, Mexico, known for its relaxed beach atmosphere, tourism, and role as a popular vacation spot on the Pacific coast.
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B.
Laka
Laka is a dialect of the Sara language spoken in parts of Central Africa, particularly in Chad and neighboring regions.
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C.
Lamboya
Lamboya is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lamboya people on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Amandina
Amandina is a feminine given name that functions as a variant form of Amanda.
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E.
Comala
Comala is the haunting, ghostly Mexican town that serves as the central setting of Juan Rulfo’s novel "Pedro Páramo."
- 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: Lamarela Target entity description: Lamarela is a coastal fishing village on the island of Lembata in Indonesia, known for its traditional subsistence whaling practices.
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A.
Melaque
Melaque is a coastal town in Jalisco, Mexico, known for its relaxed beach atmosphere, tourism, and role as a popular vacation spot on the Pacific coast.
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B.
Laka
Laka is a dialect of the Sara language spoken in parts of Central Africa, particularly in Chad and neighboring regions.
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C.
Lamboya
Lamboya is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lamboya people on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Amandina
Amandina is a feminine given name that functions as a variant form of Amanda.
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E.
Comala
Comala is the haunting, ghostly Mexican town that serves as the central setting of Juan Rulfo’s novel "Pedro Páramo."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal settlement
ⓘ
fishing village ⓘ village ⓘ |
| climate | tropical climate ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | East Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
whaling central to village identity
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whaling embedded in local customary law (adat) ⓘ |
| economy |
small-scale agriculture
ⓘ
subsistence fishing ⓘ traditional whaling-related activities ⓘ |
| foodSource |
dolphins
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reef fish ⓘ tuna and other pelagic fish ⓘ whales ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
customary marine tenure practices
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strong communal social structure ⓘ traditional ecological knowledge of marine mammals ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCommunity | speakers of Lamaholot-related languages ⓘ |
| hasPractice |
hunting of dolphins for local consumption
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hunting of whales for local consumption ⓘ sharing of whale meat within the community ⓘ |
| knownFor |
community-based whale hunting
ⓘ
small-scale artisanal whaling ⓘ traditional fishing practices ⓘ traditional subsistence whaling ⓘ use of hand-thrown harpoons in whaling ⓘ |
| legalContext | subsistence whaling under Indonesian regulation and international scrutiny ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Nusa Tenggara
ⓘ
Lembata Island ⓘ
linked to:
Lembata
Lembata Regency ⓘ
linked to:
Lembata
Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Flores Sea
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coast of Lembata ⓘ |
| marineEnvironment | waters with seasonal presence of large marine mammals ⓘ |
| partOf |
East Nusa Tenggara Province
ⓘ
linked to:
East Nusa Tenggara
Lembata Regency ⓘ
linked to:
Lembata
|
| populationCharacteristic | small rural population ⓘ |
| religion | predominantly Catholic community ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
anthropological studies on subsistence whaling
ⓘ
conservation debates about small-scale whaling ⓘ ethnographic research on human–whale relations ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Indonesia Time ⓘ |
| transport | accessible mainly by boat and local roads on Lembata ⓘ |
| whalingMethod |
hand-thrown harpoons
ⓘ
small wooden boats ⓘ |
| whalingType | subsistence whaling ⓘ |
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: Lamarela Description of subject: Lamarela is a coastal fishing village on the island of Lembata in Indonesia, known for its traditional subsistence whaling practices.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.