José Manuel
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José Manuel is the Portuguese politician and academic best known for serving as President of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| José Manuel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9444772 — 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: José Manuel Context triple: [José Manuel Barroso, givenName, José Manuel]
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A.
Antonio López Habas
Antonio López Habas is a Spanish football manager best known for leading Atlético de Kolkata to success in the Indian Super League.
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B.
José Manuel Jiménez
José Manuel Jiménez is a film editor known for his work on the action thriller sequel "Backdraft 2."
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C.
Manuel Espinosa Yglesias
Manuel Espinosa Yglesias was a prominent Mexican banker and philanthropist known for his influential role in Mexico’s financial sector and his support of cultural institutions.
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D.
Antonio Tavira
Antonio Tavira was a notable Spanish cleric and intellectual whose legacy is commemorated by the naming of the Tavira Tower.
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E.
Mariano Sanz de Santamaría
Mariano Sanz de Santamaría was a Colombian architect best known for designing Bogotá’s National Capitol building, a landmark of neoclassical architecture and national governance.
- 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: José Manuel Target entity description: José Manuel is the Portuguese politician and academic best known for serving as President of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014.
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A.
Antonio López Habas
Antonio López Habas is a Spanish football manager best known for leading Atlético de Kolkata to success in the Indian Super League.
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B.
José Manuel Jiménez
José Manuel Jiménez is a film editor known for his work on the action thriller sequel "Backdraft 2."
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C.
Manuel Espinosa Yglesias
Manuel Espinosa Yglesias was a prominent Mexican banker and philanthropist known for his influential role in Mexico’s financial sector and his support of cultural institutions.
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D.
Antonio Tavira
Antonio Tavira was a notable Spanish cleric and intellectual whose legacy is commemorated by the naming of the Tavira Tower.
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E.
Mariano Sanz de Santamaría
Mariano Sanz de Santamaría was a Colombian architect best known for designing Bogotá’s National Capitol building, a landmark of neoclassical architecture and national governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1956-03-23 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Lisbon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentOfLeadership | Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Portugal ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Geneva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
European Commission
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portuguese Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime |
2004
ⓘ
2014 ⓘ |
| familyName | Barroso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
European politics
ⓘ
political science ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | José Manuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | José Manuel Durão Barroso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
serving as President of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014
ⓘ
serving as Prime Minister of Portugal from 2002 to 2004 ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal
ⓘ
President of the European Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ Prime Minister of Portugal ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
European Union
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Brussels, Belgium
ⓘ
surface form:
Brussels
Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
2002
ⓘ
2004 ⓘ |
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: José Manuel Description of subject: José Manuel is the Portuguese politician and academic best known for serving as President of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.