Ribeira Grande
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Ribeira Grande is a coastal town and municipality on the island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde, known for its dramatic mountainous landscapes and traditional Cape Verdean culture.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ribeira Grande canonical | 5 |
| Ribeira Grande de Santiago | 2 |
| Maia (Ribeira Grande) | 1 |
| Ribeira Grande (town) | 1 |
| Ribeira Grande municipality | 1 |
| town of Ribeira Grande | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4534974 — 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: Ribeira Grande Context triple: [Santo Antão, hasMajorTown, Ribeira Grande]
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A.
Cumbuco
Cumbuco is a coastal village in northeastern Brazil known for its sand dunes, lagoons, and strong winds that make it a popular destination for kitesurfing and other beach tourism.
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B.
Itanhaém
Itanhaém is a coastal municipality in southeastern Brazil known for its beaches, historic colonial center, and tourism along the São Paulo state shoreline.
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C.
Santa Cruz do Sul
Santa Cruz do Sul is a city in southern Brazil known for its strong German-Brazilian cultural heritage, architecture, and traditions.
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D.
Parnamirim
Parnamirim is a rapidly growing city in northeastern Brazil known for its proximity to Natal and its historical role in World War II aviation.
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E.
Cabo Frio
Cabo Frio is a coastal city in southeastern Brazil known for its white-sand beaches, clear waters, and tourism-driven economy.
- 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: Ribeira Grande Target entity description: Ribeira Grande is a coastal town and municipality on the island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde, known for its dramatic mountainous landscapes and traditional Cape Verdean culture.
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A.
Cumbuco
Cumbuco is a coastal village in northeastern Brazil known for its sand dunes, lagoons, and strong winds that make it a popular destination for kitesurfing and other beach tourism.
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B.
Itanhaém
Itanhaém is a coastal municipality in southeastern Brazil known for its beaches, historic colonial center, and tourism along the São Paulo state shoreline.
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C.
Santa Cruz do Sul
Santa Cruz do Sul is a city in southern Brazil known for its strong German-Brazilian cultural heritage, architecture, and traditions.
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D.
Parnamirim
Parnamirim is a rapidly growing city in northeastern Brazil known for its proximity to Natal and its historical role in World War II aviation.
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E.
Cabo Frio
Cabo Frio is a coastal city in southeastern Brazil known for its white-sand beaches, clear waters, and tourism-driven economy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Ribeira Grande Municipality ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid ⓘ |
| country |
Cape Verde
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verde Islands
|
| countrySubdivision | Santo Antão Island ⓘ |
| governingCountry |
Republic of Cabo Verde
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verde Islands
|
| hasAdministrativeDivisionType | municipality of Cape Verde ⓘ |
| hasCommonLanguage | Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage |
Cape Verdean music traditions
ⓘ
traditional Cape Verdean cuisine ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
narrow coastal plain
ⓘ
river valleys ⓘ |
| hasGeography |
deep valleys (ribeiras)
ⓘ
steep mountain slopes ⓘ |
| hasIsland | Santo Antão ⓘ |
| hasIslandGroup |
Barlavento (Windward) Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
Barlavento (windward) islands
|
| hasIslandProvinceRole | one of the municipalities of Santo Antão ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalitySeat |
Ribeira Grande (town)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ribeira Grande
|
| hasNameLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Paul
ⓘ
Ponta do Sol ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage |
Portuguese
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese language
|
| hasReligion | Roman Catholicism (majority) ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | coastal town ⓘ |
| hasTopography | mountainous ⓘ |
| hasTourismAttractionType |
hiking
ⓘ
mountain scenery ⓘ traditional villages ⓘ |
| hasTransport | road connections to Porto Novo ⓘ |
| isCoastal | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dramatic mountainous landscapes
ⓘ
traditional Cape Verdean culture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Barlavento Islands ⓘ Northern Santo Antão ⓘ
linked to:
Santo Antão Island
island of Santo Antão ⓘ
linked to:
Santo Antão
|
| locatedOnCoastOf | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| partOf | Santo Antão ⓘ |
| partOfCountryRegion | Northern Cape Verde ⓘ |
| timeZone | Cape Verde Time ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | Cape Verdean escudo ⓘ |
| utcOffset | −01:00 ⓘ |
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: Ribeira Grande Description of subject: Ribeira Grande is a coastal town and municipality on the island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde, known for its dramatic mountainous landscapes and traditional Cape Verdean culture.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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