Salvador
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Salvador is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its Afro-Brazilian culture, colonial architecture, and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salvador canonical | 158 |
| Salvador metropolitan area | 7 |
| Salvador metropolitan region | 3 |
| downtown Salvador | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5689170 — 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: Salvador Context triple: [Northeast Region of Brazil, capital, Salvador]
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A.
Salvador
"Salvador" is a 1986 political drama film directed by Oliver Stone, in which James Woods delivers an acclaimed performance as a cynical journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War.
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B.
Salvador
Salvador is a metro station on Line 1 of the Santiago Metro in Santiago, Chile.
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C.
Salvador
Salvador is the given name of the renowned Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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D.
São Salvador do Mundo
São Salvador do Mundo is a municipality on Santiago Island in Cape Verde, known for its rural communities and mountainous inland landscapes.
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E.
Port of Salvador
The Port of Salvador is a major Brazilian seaport and cargo hub on the Atlantic coast, serving as a key gateway for trade in northeastern Brazil.
- 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: Salvador Target entity description: Salvador is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its Afro-Brazilian culture, colonial architecture, and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
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A.
Salvador
Salvador is the given name of the renowned Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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B.
Salvador
"Salvador" is a 1986 political drama film directed by Oliver Stone, in which James Woods delivers an acclaimed performance as a cynical journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War.
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C.
Salvador
Salvador is a metro station on Line 1 of the Santiago Metro in Santiago, Chile.
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D.
São Salvador do Mundo
São Salvador do Mundo is a municipality on Santiago Island in Cape Verde, known for its rural communities and mountainous inland landscapes.
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E.
Port of Salvador
The Port of Salvador is a major Brazilian seaport and cargo hub on the Atlantic coast, serving as a key gateway for trade in northeastern Brazil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| area | approximately 693 square kilometers ⓘ |
| capitalPeriodEnd | 1763 ⓘ |
| capitalPeriodStart | 1549 ⓘ |
| climate | tropical rainforest climate ⓘ |
| coast | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| cuisineSpecialty |
acarajé
ⓘ
moqueca baiana ⓘ vatapá ⓘ |
| culturalInfluence |
African
ⓘ
Indigenous ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ |
| demonym | Soteropolitano ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
commerce
ⓘ
port activities ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| formerName | São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos ⓘ |
| founder | Tomé de Sousa ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1549 ⓘ |
| hasFootballClub |
Esporte Clube Bahia
ⓘ
Esporte Clube Vitória ⓘ |
| hasPort | Port of Salvador ⓘ |
| heritage | Afro-Brazilian culture ⓘ |
| isCapitalOf | Bahia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Afro-Brazilian culture
ⓘ
Barra Lighthouse (Farol da Barra) ⓘ
linked to:
Farol da Barra
Carnival celebrations ⓘ Igreja de São Francisco baroque church ⓘ
linked to:
Igreja de São Francisco
coastal beaches ⓘ colonial architecture ⓘ elevador Lacerda urban elevator ⓘ
linked to:
Elevador Lacerda
historic center Pelourinho ⓘ |
| language | Portuguese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Bahia ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Northeast Region of Brazil ⓘ |
| majorEvent |
Salvador Carnival
ⓘ
linked to:
Carnival of Salvador
|
| musicGenre |
axé music
ⓘ
samba-reggae ⓘ |
| population | approximately 2.9 million (early 2020s) ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Candomblé
ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| shortName |
Salvador da Bahia
ⓘ
linked to:
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
|
| sports | football ⓘ |
| timeZone | Brasília Time ⓘ |
| unescoInscriptionYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| unescoStatus | Historic Centre of Salvador is a UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| utcOffset | −03:00 ⓘ |
| wasCapitalOf |
Colonial Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese America
|
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: Salvador Description of subject: Salvador is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its Afro-Brazilian culture, colonial architecture, and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
Referenced by (169)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.