Federal District
E133055
The Federal District is the administrative region in central Brazil that contains the nation’s capital, Brasília, and serves as the seat of the federal government.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Federal District canonical | 29 |
| Federal District government | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1170356 — 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: Federal District Context triple: [Supreme Federal Court building in Brasília, locatedIn, Federal District]
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A.
Central Federal District
The Central Federal District is an administrative region of western Russia that includes Moscow and serves as a key political, economic, and cultural hub of the country.
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B.
Northwestern Federal District
The Northwestern Federal District is an administrative region of Russia that encompasses the country’s northwestern territories, including the city of St. Petersburg.
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C.
Federal Capital Territory
The Federal Capital Territory is the administrative region in central Nigeria that contains the nation’s capital city, Abuja, and serves as the seat of the federal government.
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D.
District of Columbia federal judicial circuit
The District of Columbia federal judicial circuit is the U.S. federal appellate jurisdiction centered in Washington, D.C., known for handling many cases involving federal agencies and constitutional issues.
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E.
Southern Federal District
The Southern Federal District is an administrative division of Russia encompassing several southern regions and key Black Sea territories, including the de facto administered federal city of Sevastopol.
- 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: Federal District Target entity description: The Federal District is the administrative region in central Brazil that contains the nation’s capital, Brasília, and serves as the seat of the federal government.
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A.
Central Federal District
The Central Federal District is an administrative region of western Russia that includes Moscow and serves as a key political, economic, and cultural hub of the country.
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B.
Northwestern Federal District
The Northwestern Federal District is an administrative region of Russia that encompasses the country’s northwestern territories, including the city of St. Petersburg.
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C.
Federal Capital Territory
The Federal Capital Territory is the administrative region in central Nigeria that contains the nation’s capital city, Abuja, and serves as the seat of the federal government.
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D.
District of Columbia federal judicial circuit
The District of Columbia federal judicial circuit is the U.S. federal appellate jurisdiction centered in Washington, D.C., known for handling many cases involving federal agencies and constitutional issues.
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E.
Southern Federal District
The Southern Federal District is an administrative division of Russia encompassing several southern regions and key Black Sea territories, including the de facto administered federal city of Sevastopol.
- 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: Federal District Description of subject: The Federal District is the administrative region in central Brazil that contains the nation’s capital, Brasília, and serves as the seat of the federal government.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Institute of International Relations
linked to: Federal District
linked to: Federal District
subject linked to:
BR-040 highway