Foz do Iguaçu
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Foz do Iguaçu is a Brazilian city in the state of Paraná best known as the gateway to the spectacular Iguaçu Falls on the border with Argentina and Paraguay.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Foz do Iguaçu canonical | 11 |
| Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T822899 — 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: Foz do Iguaçu Context triple: [Paraná River, passesNear, Foz do Iguaçu]
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A.
Carioca River
The Carioca River is a small urban waterway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, historically important as a source of fresh water for the city and now known for running through the Tijuca Forest and into Guanabara Bay.
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B.
Rivera Plate
The Rivera Plate is a small tectonic plate off the west coast of Mexico that interacts with the Pacific and North American Plates, contributing to regional seismic and volcanic activity.
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C.
Rio Hato
Rio Hato is a coastal area in Panama known for its airfield, which was a key target during the U.S. invasion of Panama in Operation Just Cause.
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D.
Uruguay River
The Uruguay River is a major South American waterway that forms part of the border between Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay before joining the Paraná River to create the Río de la Plata estuary.
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E.
Paraguay River
The Paraguay River is a major South American waterway that flows through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina, forming part of the Río de la Plata Basin and serving as a vital route for transport, agriculture, and ecosystems in the region.
- 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: Foz do Iguaçu Target entity description: Foz do Iguaçu is a Brazilian city in the state of Paraná best known as the gateway to the spectacular Iguaçu Falls on the border with Argentina and Paraguay.
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A.
Carioca River
The Carioca River is a small urban waterway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, historically important as a source of fresh water for the city and now known for running through the Tijuca Forest and into Guanabara Bay.
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B.
Rivera Plate
The Rivera Plate is a small tectonic plate off the west coast of Mexico that interacts with the Pacific and North American Plates, contributing to regional seismic and volcanic activity.
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C.
Rio Hato
Rio Hato is a coastal area in Panama known for its airfield, which was a key target during the U.S. invasion of Panama in Operation Just Cause.
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D.
Uruguay River
The Uruguay River is a major South American waterway that forms part of the border between Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay before joining the Paraná River to create the Río de la Plata estuary.
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E.
Paraguay River
The Paraguay River is a major South American waterway that flows through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina, forming part of the Río de la Plata Basin and serving as a vital route for transport, agriculture, and ecosystems in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Foz do Iguaçu Description of subject: Foz do Iguaçu is a Brazilian city in the state of Paraná best known as the gateway to the spectacular Iguaçu Falls on the border with Argentina and Paraguay.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.