Estêvão da Gama
E250078
Estêvão da Gama was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator from the famed da Gama family, active in the early period of Portuguese maritime expansion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Estêvão da Gama canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2243999 — 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: Estêvão da Gama Context triple: [Gama, hasNotableBearer, Estêvão da Gama]
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A.
Francisco da Gama
Francisco da Gama is a central fictional figure in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," belonging to the eccentric, multi-generational da Gama family whose fortunes and conflicts drive much of the story’s plot.
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B.
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who pioneered the sea route from Europe to India, becoming one of the most significant explorers of the Age of Exploration.
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C.
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator best known for being the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, opening the sea route from Europe to Asia.
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D.
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese navigator and fleet commander best known for leading the 1500 voyage that resulted in the European discovery of Brazil.
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E.
Diogo Cão
Diogo Cão was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer known for pioneering voyages along the west coast of Africa during the Age of Discovery.
- 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: Estêvão da Gama Target entity description: Estêvão da Gama was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator from the famed da Gama family, active in the early period of Portuguese maritime expansion.
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A.
Francisco da Gama
Francisco da Gama is a central fictional figure in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," belonging to the eccentric, multi-generational da Gama family whose fortunes and conflicts drive much of the story’s plot.
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B.
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who pioneered the sea route from Europe to India, becoming one of the most significant explorers of the Age of Exploration.
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C.
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator best known for being the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, opening the sea route from Europe to Asia.
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D.
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese navigator and fleet commander best known for leading the 1500 voyage that resulted in the European discovery of Brazil.
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E.
Diogo Cão
Diogo Cão was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer known for pioneering voyages along the west coast of Africa during the Age of Discovery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese nobleman
ⓘ
explorer ⓘ navigator ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
15th century
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16th century ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
Age of Exploration
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surface form:
Age of Discovery
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| activity | Portuguese maritime expansion ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of Portugal ⓘ |
| continentOfActivity |
Africa
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Portugal ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Portuguese ⓘ |
| familyName | da Gama ⓘ |
| historicalRegionOfActivity | Portuguese Empire ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early Portuguese oceanic voyages
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service in early Portuguese maritime expansion ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Portuguese ⓘ |
| maritimeRole | captain ⓘ |
| memberOf | da Gama family ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Portuguese Navy
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surface form:
Portuguese navy
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| nobleTitle | fidalgo ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | Vasco da Gama ⓘ |
| occupation |
explorer
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navigator ⓘ seafarer ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
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: Estêvão da Gama Description of subject: Estêvão da Gama was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator from the famed da Gama family, active in the early period of Portuguese maritime expansion.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.