Touriga Franca
E403054
Touriga Franca is a key Portuguese red wine grape variety, especially valued in the Douro for producing structured, aromatic wines and forming an important component of many Port blends.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Touriga Franca canonical | 6 |
| Touriga Francesa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3964585 — 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: Touriga Franca Context triple: [Douro Demarcated Region, primaryGrapeVariety, Touriga Franca]
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A.
Touriga Nacional
Touriga Nacional is a highly regarded Portuguese red wine grape variety known for producing deeply colored, tannic, and aromatic wines, and is a key component in both Port and dry Douro wines.
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B.
Arruda
Arruda is a neighborhood in Recife, Brazil, best known for housing the Estádio do Arruda, home stadium of the Santa Cruz Futebol Clube.
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C.
Vernazobre
Vernazobre is a river in southern France that serves as a tributary of the Orb.
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D.
Bordeira
Bordeira is a civil parish in the municipality of Aljezur in Portugal’s Algarve region, known for its rugged Atlantic coastline and scenic beaches.
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E.
Figueira Seca
Figueira Seca is a small village located on the island of Maio in Cape Verde.
- 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: Touriga Franca Target entity description: Touriga Franca is a key Portuguese red wine grape variety, especially valued in the Douro for producing structured, aromatic wines and forming an important component of many Port blends.
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A.
Touriga Nacional
Touriga Nacional is a highly regarded Portuguese red wine grape variety known for producing deeply colored, tannic, and aromatic wines, and is a key component in both Port and dry Douro wines.
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B.
Arruda
Arruda is a neighborhood in Recife, Brazil, best known for housing the Estádio do Arruda, home stadium of the Santa Cruz Futebol Clube.
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C.
Vernazobre
Vernazobre is a river in southern France that serves as a tributary of the Orb.
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D.
Bordeira
Bordeira is a civil parish in the municipality of Aljezur in Portugal’s Algarve region, known for its rugged Atlantic coastline and scenic beaches.
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E.
Figueira Seca
Figueira Seca is a small village located on the island of Maio in Cape Verde.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
grape variety
ⓘ
red wine grape variety ⓘ wine grape ⓘ |
| associatedWineRegion |
Porto e Douro DOC
ⓘ
linked to:
Douro Demarcated Region
|
| blendingPartner |
Tinta Barroca
ⓘ
Tinta Roriz ⓘ Tinto Cão ⓘ Touriga Nacional ⓘ |
| climateSuitability |
continental climate
ⓘ
warm climate ⓘ |
| commonUse | quality wine production ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Portugal ⓘ |
| grapeColor | black-skinned ⓘ |
| grapeSpecies | Vitis vinifera ⓘ |
| importance | one of the most planted red varieties in the Douro ⓘ |
| importantRegion |
Douro
ⓘ
linked to:
Douro River
Douro Valley ⓘ
linked to:
Douro Demarcated Region
|
| notableCountryOfCultivation | Portugal ⓘ |
| primaryColorOfWine | red ⓘ |
| roleInBlend |
aromatic component
ⓘ
structural component ⓘ |
| synonym |
Touriga Francesa
ⓘ
linked to:
Touriga Franca
|
| typicalAlcoholLevel | moderate to high alcohol ⓘ |
| typicalAroma |
black fruit
ⓘ
floral notes ⓘ herbal notes ⓘ red fruit ⓘ spice ⓘ |
| typicalColorIntensity | deep color ⓘ |
| typicalStructure |
ageing potential
ⓘ
good acidity ⓘ good tannin structure ⓘ |
| typicalTanninLevel | medium to high tannins ⓘ |
| typicalWineStyle |
aromatic
ⓘ
concentrated ⓘ full-bodied ⓘ structured ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Port wine
ⓘ
fortified wine ⓘ still red wine ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Douro red blends
ⓘ
Port blends ⓘ |
| vineCharacteristic |
late ripening
ⓘ
productive ⓘ |
| vineVigour | vigorous ⓘ |
| wineProfile | fruity and floral with firm structure ⓘ |
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: Touriga Franca Description of subject: Touriga Franca is a key Portuguese red wine grape variety, especially valued in the Douro for producing structured, aromatic wines and forming an important component of many Port blends.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Touriga Franca