Roberto Azevêdo
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Roberto Azevêdo is a Brazilian diplomat who served as Director-General of the World Trade Organization, playing a key role in global trade negotiations and multilateral trade policy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roberto Azevêdo canonical | 3 |
| Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T45241 — 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: Roberto Azevêdo Context triple: [World Trade Organization, predecessorDirectorGeneral, Roberto Azevêdo]
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A.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist and global development expert who became the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization.
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B.
Luceal Guterres
Luceal Guterres is the wife of António Guterres, the Portuguese politician and diplomat serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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C.
António Guterres
António Guterres is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who has served as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations and was formerly Prime Minister of Portugal and UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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D.
Jerome H. Powell
Jerome H. Powell is an American lawyer and economist who serves as the Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, overseeing the nation’s central banking system and monetary policy.
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E.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
- 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: Roberto Azevêdo Target entity description: Roberto Azevêdo is a Brazilian diplomat who served as Director-General of the World Trade Organization, playing a key role in global trade negotiations and multilateral trade policy.
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A.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist and global development expert who became the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization.
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B.
Luceal Guterres
Luceal Guterres is the wife of António Guterres, the Portuguese politician and diplomat serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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C.
António Guterres
António Guterres is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who has served as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations and was formerly Prime Minister of Portugal and UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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D.
Jerome H. Powell
Jerome H. Powell is an American lawyer and economist who serves as the Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, overseeing the nation’s central banking system and monetary policy.
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E.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on information asymmetry, inequality, and critiques of unregulated markets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brazilian diplomat
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Brasília ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | global trade system ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-10-03 ⓘ |
| electedAs | Director-General of the World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| electionDate | 2013-05-14 ⓘ |
| employer |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil
ⓘ
World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| endTime |
2013
ⓘ
2020-08-31 ⓘ |
| familyName | Azevêdo ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
international trade
ⓘ
multilateral trade negotiations ⓘ trade policy ⓘ |
| givenName | Roberto ⓘ |
| hasChild | two daughters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
defending multilateral trading system
ⓘ
mediating trade disputes within the WTO ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Brazilian diplomatic service ⓘ |
| name |
Roberto Azevêdo
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo
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| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| notableRole | key role in global trade negotiations ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of the World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
ⓘ
international civil servant ⓘ |
| office | Director-General of the World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Salvador, Bahia, Brazil ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Brazil’s Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization
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Director-General of the World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| postDiplomaticPosition | Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of PepsiCo ⓘ |
| precededBy | Pascal Lamy ⓘ |
| re-elected | 2017-02-28 ⓘ |
| reElectionTermEnd | 2021-08-31 ⓘ |
| reElectionTermStart | 2017-09-01 ⓘ |
| represented | Brazil at the World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| spouse | Maria Azevêdo ⓘ |
| startTime |
2008
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2013-09-01 ⓘ 2020-09 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Geneva
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surface form:
Geneva, Switzerland
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Referenced by (4)
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this entity surface form:
Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo