Sousa
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Sousa is a surname most famously associated with John Philip Sousa, the American composer and conductor known as "The March King."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sousa canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13009706 — 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: Sousa Context triple: [John Philip Sousa, familyName, Sousa]
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A.
Sousa
Sousa is a municipality in the state of Paraíba, Brazil, known for its significant dinosaur fossil sites and the nearby Vale dos Dinossauros (Valley of the Dinosaurs) archaeological park.
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B.
Sousa
Sousa is a Portuguese wine subregion within Vinho Verde, known for producing light, fresh white wines with vibrant acidity.
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C.
John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor, famously known as "The March King" for his prolific and influential military and patriotic marches.
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D.
Daniel Sousa
Daniel Sousa is a World War II veteran and later S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in the Marvel universe, best known as a main character in the TV series "Agent Carter."
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E.
John Antonio Sousa
John Antonio Sousa was the father of famed American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa, likely influencing his son's early musical environment and upbringing.
- 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: Sousa Target entity description: Sousa is a surname most famously associated with John Philip Sousa, the American composer and conductor known as "The March King."
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A.
Sousa
Sousa is a municipality in the state of Paraíba, Brazil, known for its significant dinosaur fossil sites and the nearby Vale dos Dinossauros (Valley of the Dinosaurs) archaeological park.
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B.
Sousa
Sousa is a Portuguese wine subregion within Vinho Verde, known for producing light, fresh white wines with vibrant acidity.
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C.
John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor, famously known as "The March King" for his prolific and influential military and patriotic marches.
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D.
Daniel Sousa
Daniel Sousa is a World War II veteran and later S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in the Marvel universe, best known as a main character in the TV series "Agent Carter."
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E.
John Antonio Sousa
John Antonio Sousa was the father of famed American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa, likely influencing his son's early musical environment and upbringing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Sousa Description of subject: Sousa is a surname most famously associated with John Philip Sousa, the American composer and conductor known as "The March King."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.