Paulo Mendes da Rocha
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha was a renowned Brazilian architect celebrated for his bold modernist designs and influential contributions to contemporary architecture, including winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paulo Mendes da Rocha canonical | 16 |
| Paulo Mendes da Rocha (architect) | 1 |
| Paulo Mendes da Rocha residential works | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1170224 — 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: Paulo Mendes da Rocha Context triple: [Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, hasNotableAlumni, Paulo Mendes da Rocha]
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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer was a pioneering Brazilian architect renowned for his curvaceous modernist designs and major contributions to 20th-century architecture, including landmark civic and cultural buildings worldwide.
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B.
Lúcio Costa
Lúcio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner best known as the principal designer of Brasília’s master plan and a key figure in the development of modernist architecture in Brazil.
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C.
Paulo Santos (architect)
Paulo Santos was a Brazilian architect and academic known for his influential role in architectural education and criticism in the 20th century.
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D.
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was a prominent Mexican architect and urban planner known for designing major modernist landmarks and shaping mid-20th-century Mexican public architecture.
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E.
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is an acclaimed Italian architect known for his innovative, light-filled museum designs and landmark projects such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and The Shard in London.
- 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: Paulo Mendes da Rocha Target entity description: Paulo Mendes da Rocha was a renowned Brazilian architect celebrated for his bold modernist designs and influential contributions to contemporary architecture, including winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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A.
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer was a pioneering Brazilian architect renowned for his curvaceous modernist designs and major contributions to 20th-century architecture, including landmark civic and cultural buildings worldwide.
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B.
Lúcio Costa
Lúcio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner best known as the principal designer of Brasília’s master plan and a key figure in the development of modernist architecture in Brazil.
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C.
Paulo Santos (architect)
Paulo Santos was a Brazilian architect and academic known for his influential role in architectural education and criticism in the 20th century.
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D.
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was a prominent Mexican architect and urban planner known for designing major modernist landmarks and shaping mid-20th-century Mexican public architecture.
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E.
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is an acclaimed Italian architect known for his innovative, light-filled museum designs and landmark projects such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and The Shard in London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Paulo Mendes da Rocha Description of subject: Paulo Mendes da Rocha was a renowned Brazilian architect celebrated for his bold modernist designs and influential contributions to contemporary architecture, including winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Paulo Mendes da Rocha
subject linked to:
Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (MuBE), São Paulo
Patriarch Plaza and Viaduto do Chá, São Paulo (redevelopment)
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subject linked to:
Serra Dourada Stadium, Goiânia
subject linked to:
Serra Dourada Stadium, Goiânia
linked to: Paulo Mendes da Rocha