Brazilian Highlands

E100317

geographical region plateau

The Brazilian Highlands are an extensive plateau region covering much of eastern, southern, and central Brazil, known for their diverse landscapes, rich biodiversity, and major role in the country’s climate and river systems.

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All labels observed (13)

Label	Occurrences
Brazilian Highlands canonical	14
Brazilian Shield	2
Cerrado	2
Brazilian Central Plateau	1
Brazilian Plateau	1
Central Brazilian Plateau	1
Central Plateau of Brazil	1
Guarapuava Plateau	1
Paraná Plateau	1
Planalto Central (Brazilian Highlands)	1
Planalto Central (Central Plateau of Brazil)	1
Serra do Mar	1
São Paulo Plateau	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T817980 — 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: Brazilian Highlands
Context triple: [Americas, containsSubregion, Brazilian Highlands]

A. Meseta Central
Meseta Central is a vast highland plateau in central Spain that forms the core of the Iberian Peninsula’s interior landscape.
B. Pantanal
The Pantanal is one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands, renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity and vast seasonally flooded plains in central South America.
C. Guiana Shield
The Guiana Shield is a geologically ancient, mineral-rich craton in northern South America, characterized by extensive tropical rainforests, unique biodiversity, and dramatic table-top mountains.
D. Altiplano plateau
The Altiplano plateau is a high, windswept intermontane plateau in the central Andes of South America, known for its vast arid plains, salt flats, and high-altitude lakes.
E. Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin is the vast tropical drainage region of the Amazon River in South America, encompassing the world’s largest rainforest and one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth.
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: Brazilian Highlands
Target entity description: The Brazilian Highlands are an extensive plateau region covering much of eastern, southern, and central Brazil, known for their diverse landscapes, rich biodiversity, and major role in the country’s climate and river systems.

A. Meseta Central
Meseta Central is a vast highland plateau in central Spain that forms the core of the Iberian Peninsula’s interior landscape.
B. Pantanal
The Pantanal is one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands, renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity and vast seasonally flooded plains in central South America.
C. Guiana Shield
The Guiana Shield is a geologically ancient, mineral-rich craton in northern South America, characterized by extensive tropical rainforests, unique biodiversity, and dramatic table-top mountains.
D. Altiplano plateau
The Altiplano plateau is a high, windswept intermontane plateau in the central Andes of South America, known for its vast arid plains, salt flats, and high-altitude lakes.
E. Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin is the vast tropical drainage region of the Amazon River in South America, encompassing the world’s largest rainforest and one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region ⓘ plateau ⓘ
area	approximately 4,500,000 square kilometers ⓘ
biodiversity	high plant endemism ⓘ high vertebrate diversity ⓘ
borders	Amazon Basin to the north ⓘ Atlantic coastal plain to the east ⓘ Pantanal to the west ⓘ
climateInfluence	Brazilian rainfall patterns ⓘ orographic rainfall along the Atlantic coast ⓘ
contains	Belo Horizonte ⓘ Brasília ⓘ Central Plateau of Brazil ⓘ linked to: Brazilian Highlands Planalto Meridional ⓘ Serra da Mantiqueira ⓘ Serra do Espinhaço ⓘ Serra do Mar ⓘ linked to: Serra do Mar system parts of São Paulo metropolitan region ⓘ
continent	South America ⓘ
country	Brazil ⓘ
drainageDivideFor	Amazon Basin ⓘ Paraná River Basin ⓘ linked to: Paraná River São Francisco River Basin ⓘ linked to: São Francisco River
economicUse	agriculture ⓘ cattle ranching ⓘ hydroelectric power generation ⓘ mining ⓘ
elevation	approximately 2,891 meters ⓘ
elevationRange	generally between 300 and 900 meters above sea level ⓘ
extendsInto	state of Bahia ⓘ linked to: Bahia state of Espírito Santo ⓘ linked to: State of Espírito Santo state of Goiás ⓘ linked to: Goiás state of Minas Gerais ⓘ linked to: Minas Gerais state of Paraná ⓘ linked to: Paraná state state of Rio Grande do Sul ⓘ linked to: Rio Grande do Sul state of Rio de Janeiro ⓘ linked to: State of Rio de Janeiro state of Santa Catarina ⓘ linked to: Santa Catarina state of São Paulo ⓘ
geologicalAge	Precambrian basement rocks ⓘ
hasEcosystem	Atlantic Forest ⓘ linked to: Atlantic Forest biome Campos grasslands ⓘ Cerrado ⓘ
hasLandscape	canyons ⓘ deep river valleys ⓘ mountain ranges ⓘ plateaus ⓘ rolling hills ⓘ
highestPoint	Pico da Bandeira ⓘ
locatedIn	central Brazil ⓘ eastern Brazil ⓘ southern Brazil ⓘ
partOf	Brazilian Shield ⓘ linked to: Brazilian Highlands
roleInBrazil	important for water resources ⓘ key agricultural region ⓘ major population concentration area ⓘ
sourceOfRiver	Doce River ⓘ Jequitinhonha River ⓘ Paraguay River tributaries ⓘ Paraná River tributaries ⓘ Parnaíba River tributaries ⓘ São Francisco River ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (28)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Americas → containsSubregion → Brazilian Highlands ⓘ

Paraguay River → sourceLocation → Brazilian Highlands ⓘ

Palácio do Planalto → namedAfter → Planalto Central (Central Plateau of Brazil) ⓘ