Brasília
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Brasília is the modernist-planned capital city of Brazil, known for its distinctive architecture and role as a major political and administrative center in South America.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T253404 — 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: Brasília Context triple: [Union of South American Nations, treatySignedPlace, Brasília]
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A.
Belém
Belém is a historic riverside district of Lisbon, Portugal, known for its monuments of the Age of Discoveries, including the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery.
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B.
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro is a major Brazilian coastal city famed for its stunning beaches, dramatic landscape, Carnival festival, and iconic Christ the Redeemer statue.
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São Paulo
São Paulo is Brazil’s largest city and a major global financial, cultural, and industrial center in South America.
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Recife
Recife is a major coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its historic colonial architecture, extensive waterways, and role as an important cultural and economic center.
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E.
Lima
Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center on South America's Pacific coast.
- 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: Brasília Target entity description: Brasília is the modernist-planned capital city of Brazil, known for its distinctive architecture and role as a major political and administrative center in South America.
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A.
Belém
Belém is a historic riverside district of Lisbon, Portugal, known for its monuments of the Age of Discoveries, including the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery.
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B.
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro is a major Brazilian coastal city famed for its stunning beaches, dramatic landscape, Carnival festival, and iconic Christ the Redeemer statue.
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C.
São Paulo
São Paulo is Brazil’s largest city and a major global financial, cultural, and industrial center in South America.
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D.
Recife
Recife is a major coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its historic colonial architecture, extensive waterways, and role as an important cultural and economic center.
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E.
Lima
Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru, known as a major political, economic, and cultural center on South America's Pacific coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Brasília Description of subject: Brasília is the modernist-planned capital city of Brazil, known for its distinctive architecture and role as a major political and administrative center in South America.
Referenced by (162)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Palácio do Itamaraty (Brasília)
this entity surface form:
Plano Piloto, Brasília
this entity surface form:
Brasilia
this entity surface form:
Brasilia
subject surface form:
Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)
subject surface form:
Mangueira (Recife)
this entity surface form:
Águas Claras
this entity surface form:
Brasília UNESCO World Heritage Site
subject surface form:
Areias (Recife)
this entity surface form:
Brasília (for Brazil)
this entity surface form:
Brasília (federal capital of Brazil)
subject surface form:
Bruno Giorgi