Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland)
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Cap Vert is the westernmost point of the African mainland, a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast near Dakar, Senegal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland) canonical | 1 |
| named by Portuguese explorers as Cabo Verde (Green Cape) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4120105 — 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: Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland) Context triple: [Cap-Vert Peninsula, hasLandmark, Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland)]
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A.
Fogo (Cape Verde)
Fogo (Cape Verde) is a volcanic island in the Cape Verde archipelago, dominated by the active stratovolcano Pico do Fogo and known for its dramatic landscapes and coffee cultivation.
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B.
Boa Vista (Cape Verde)
Boa Vista is a Cape Verdean island in the Atlantic Ocean known for its extensive white-sand beaches, sand dunes, and important sea turtle nesting sites.
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C.
Tarrafal de São Nicolau
Tarrafal de São Nicolau is a coastal town and important population center on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde.
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D.
Brava (Cape Verde)
Brava is the smallest inhabited island of Cape Verde, known for its rugged volcanic landscape, mild climate, and traditional Creole culture within the Macaronesian archipelago.
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E.
São Jorge Island
São Jorge Island is a long, narrow volcanic island in the central group of Portugal’s Azores archipelago, known for its dramatic cliffs, fajãs (coastal plains), and traditional cheese production.
- 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: Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland) Target entity description: Cap Vert is the westernmost point of the African mainland, a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast near Dakar, Senegal.
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A.
Fogo (Cape Verde)
Fogo (Cape Verde) is a volcanic island in the Cape Verde archipelago, dominated by the active stratovolcano Pico do Fogo and known for its dramatic landscapes and coffee cultivation.
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B.
Boa Vista (Cape Verde)
Boa Vista is a Cape Verdean island in the Atlantic Ocean known for its extensive white-sand beaches, sand dunes, and important sea turtle nesting sites.
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C.
Tarrafal de São Nicolau
Tarrafal de São Nicolau is a coastal town and important population center on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde.
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D.
Brava (Cape Verde)
Brava is the smallest inhabited island of Cape Verde, known for its rugged volcanic landscape, mild climate, and traditional Creole culture within the Macaronesian archipelago.
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E.
São Jorge Island
São Jorge Island is a long, narrow volcanic island in the central group of Portugal’s Azores archipelago, known for its dramatic cliffs, fajãs (coastal plains), and traditional cheese production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cape
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geographical feature ⓘ headland ⓘ |
| adjacentCity | Dakar ⓘ |
| administrativeRegion | Dakar Region ONNED1 ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | WGS84 ⓘ |
| country | Senegal ⓘ |
| countryCapitalNearby | Dakar ⓘ |
| distanceRelation | forms the closest point of mainland Africa to the Americas ⓘ |
| etymology |
Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
named by Portuguese explorers as Cabo Verde (Green Cape)
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| geologicalType | volcanic origin ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| hasCoastType | rocky coast ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole | supports fishing activities near Dakar ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalFeature | coastal ecosystems of the Cap-Vert Peninsula ⓘ |
| hasLandform | peninsula ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Cabo Verde (Portuguese)
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Cap Vert (French) ⓘ Cape Verde Islands ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Verde (English)
|
| hasProminence | forms a prominent projection into the Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| hasTerrain | rocky ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Guinea Coast
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surface form:
Atlantic coast of Africa
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| languageOfToponym | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Senegal ⓘ |
| locatedInHemisphere |
Northern Hemisphere
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Western Hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Cap-Vert Peninsula ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Dakar ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoastOf | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| nearbySeaArea | eastern Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| ocean | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| partOfHistoricalRegion | Senegambia ⓘ |
| relativeLocation |
west of Dakar city center
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westernmost point of the African mainland ⓘ |
| usedFor | maritime navigation reference point ⓘ |
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: Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland) Description of subject: Cap Vert is the westernmost point of the African mainland, a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast near Dakar, Senegal.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland)
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etymology
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Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland)
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Cap Vert
this entity surface form:
named by Portuguese explorers as Cabo Verde (Green Cape)