Ubiratan Pereira Maciel
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Ubiratan Pereira Maciel was a prominent Brazilian basketball center who starred for the national team during the 1960s and 1970s and is regarded as one of the country’s greatest players.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ubiratan Pereira Maciel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6077784 — 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: Ubiratan Pereira Maciel Context triple: [Brazil men's national basketball team, notablePlayer, Ubiratan Pereira Maciel]
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A.
Ramalho Ortigão
Ramalho Ortigão was a prominent 19th-century Portuguese writer and journalist, known especially for his satirical and social commentary works.
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B.
Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro
Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro was a prominent 19th-century Brazilian politician and lawyer who played a key role in the early imperial government, including service as a regent during Brazil’s Regency period.
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C.
Delmiro Gouveia
Delmiro Gouveia is a municipality in northeastern Brazil known for its historical association with early industrial development and the pioneering entrepreneur Delmiro Augusto da Cruz Gouveia.
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D.
José Alexandre
José Alexandre is the birth name of Xanana Gusmão, the prominent East Timorese independence leader and statesman.
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E.
Santos de Carvalho
Santos de Carvalho was a Portuguese architect known for his work on prominent 19th-century Lisbon landmarks, including the monumental Arco da Rua Augusta.
- 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: Ubiratan Pereira Maciel Target entity description: Ubiratan Pereira Maciel was a prominent Brazilian basketball center who starred for the national team during the 1960s and 1970s and is regarded as one of the country’s greatest players.
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A.
Ramalho Ortigão
Ramalho Ortigão was a prominent 19th-century Portuguese writer and journalist, known especially for his satirical and social commentary works.
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B.
Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro
Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro was a prominent 19th-century Brazilian politician and lawyer who played a key role in the early imperial government, including service as a regent during Brazil’s Regency period.
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C.
Delmiro Gouveia
Delmiro Gouveia is a municipality in northeastern Brazil known for its historical association with early industrial development and the pioneering entrepreneur Delmiro Augusto da Cruz Gouveia.
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D.
José Alexandre
José Alexandre is the birth name of Xanana Gusmão, the prominent East Timorese independence leader and statesman.
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E.
Santos de Carvalho
Santos de Carvalho was a Portuguese architect known for his work on prominent 19th-century Lisbon landmarks, including the monumental Arco da Rua Augusta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
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human ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| continentRepresented | South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| familyName | Maciel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ubiratan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Portuguese ⓘ |
| medalistIn |
FIBA World Championship
NERFINISHED
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Pan American Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Brazil national basketball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Brazil’s greatest basketball players
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starring for the Brazil national basketball team in the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1963 Pan American Games
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1964 Summer Olympics ⓘ 1967 FIBA World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ 1967 Pan American Games NERFINISHED ⓘ 1968 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ 1970 FIBA World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ 1971 Pan American Games NERFINISHED ⓘ 1972 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ 1974 FIBA World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ FIBA World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ Pan American Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | center ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| sportingRole | center ⓘ |
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: Ubiratan Pereira Maciel Description of subject: Ubiratan Pereira Maciel was a prominent Brazilian basketball center who starred for the national team during the 1960s and 1970s and is regarded as one of the country’s greatest players.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.