Kandy
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Kandy is a historic city in central Sri Lanka renowned for its cultural heritage, including the Temple of the Tooth and its role as a former royal stronghold.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kandy canonical | 149 |
| Kandy city center | 4 |
| City of Kandy | 3 |
| Kandy city | 3 |
| Sacred City of Kandy | 3 |
| Kandy (south) | 1 |
| Kandy city centre | 1 |
| Kandy urban area | 1 |
| Magul Maduwa, Kandy | 1 |
| city of Kandy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T682403 — 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: Kandy Context triple: [Kingdom of Kandy, capital, Kandy]
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A.
Galle
Galle is a historic coastal city in southern Sri Lanka renowned for its well-preserved colonial-era fort and long-standing role as a key Indian Ocean trading hub.
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B.
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the seat of the national legislature.
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C.
Colombo
Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, historically significant as a key Indian Ocean trading hub.
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D.
Jaffna
Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
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E.
Trincomalee
Trincomalee is a strategically important natural deep-water harbor and coastal city on the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka.
- 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: Kandy Target entity description: Kandy is a historic city in central Sri Lanka renowned for its cultural heritage, including the Temple of the Tooth and its role as a former royal stronghold.
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A.
Galle
Galle is a historic coastal city in southern Sri Lanka renowned for its well-preserved colonial-era fort and long-standing role as a key Indian Ocean trading hub.
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B.
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the seat of the national legislature.
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C.
Colombo
Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, historically significant as a key Indian Ocean trading hub.
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D.
Jaffna
Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
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E.
Trincomalee
Trincomalee is a strategically important natural deep-water harbor and coastal city on the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka.
- 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: Kandy Description of subject: Kandy is a historic city in central Sri Lanka renowned for its cultural heritage, including the Temple of the Tooth and its role as a former royal stronghold.
Referenced by (167)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka)
linked to: Kandy
subject linked to:
Udarata (Up-Country)
subject linked to:
Udarata (Up-Country)
subject linked to:
Udarata (Up-Country)
subject linked to:
Udarata (Up-Country)
linked to: Kandy
linked to: Kandy
linked to: Kandy
subject linked to:
House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line)
linked to: Kandy
linked to: Kandy