Francisco Marto
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Francisco Marto was one of the three Portuguese shepherd children who reported witnessing the Marian apparitions at Fátima in 1917 and was later canonized as a Catholic saint.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Francisco Marto canonical | 19 |
| Manuel Pedro Marto | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T887738 — 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: Francisco Marto Context triple: [Marian apparitions at Fatima, visionary, Francisco Marto]
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A.
Francisco Ramos da Costa
Francisco Ramos da Costa was a Portuguese political figure best known as one of the founders of the Socialist Party (Portugal).
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B.
Tadeu Marroco
Tadeu Marroco is a Brazilian-born business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of British American Tobacco.
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C.
Rafael Carmoega
Rafael Carmoega was a prominent Puerto Rican architect known for designing major public buildings and shaping early 20th-century Puerto Rican civic architecture.
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D.
Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Alfredo Nobre da Costa was a Portuguese engineer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Portugal in 1978 during the country’s turbulent post-revolution transition.
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E.
José Miaja
José Miaja was a Spanish Republican general best known for leading the defense of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.
- 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: Francisco Marto Target entity description: Francisco Marto was one of the three Portuguese shepherd children who reported witnessing the Marian apparitions at Fátima in 1917 and was later canonized as a Catholic saint.
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A.
Francisco Ramos da Costa
Francisco Ramos da Costa was a Portuguese political figure best known as one of the founders of the Socialist Party (Portugal).
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B.
Tadeu Marroco
Tadeu Marroco is a Brazilian-born business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of British American Tobacco.
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C.
Rafael Carmoega
Rafael Carmoega was a prominent Puerto Rican architect known for designing major public buildings and shaping early 20th-century Puerto Rican civic architecture.
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D.
Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Alfredo Nobre da Costa was a Portuguese engineer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Portugal in 1978 during the country’s turbulent post-revolution transition.
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E.
José Miaja
José Miaja was a Spanish Republican general best known for leading the defense of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Francisco Marto Description of subject: Francisco Marto was one of the three Portuguese shepherd children who reported witnessing the Marian apparitions at Fátima in 1917 and was later canonized as a Catholic saint.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Francisco Marto