Vigo
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Vigo is a major industrial and port city in northwestern Spain, known for its shipbuilding, fishing industry, and location on the Atlantic coast of Galicia.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vigo canonical | 56 |
| Vigo, Spain | 8 |
| Santiago de Vigo | 1 |
| Vigo City Council | 1 |
| Vigo city center | 1 |
| Vigo metropolitan area | 1 |
| the city of Vigo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1687003 — 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: Vigo Context triple: [Galicia, largestCity, Vigo]
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A.
Ferrol
Ferrol is a coastal city and major naval shipbuilding center in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain.
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B.
Braga
Braga is a historic city in northern Portugal known for its rich religious heritage, baroque architecture, and status as a regional cultural and educational center.
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C.
Cadiz
Cádiz is an ancient port city in southwestern Spain that historically served as a major hub for transatlantic Spanish galleon trade and remains known for its maritime heritage and coastal charm.
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D.
Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is a historic city in northwestern Spain renowned as the culmination of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage and for its UNESCO-listed Old Town centered around the cathedral said to house the remains of Saint James.
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E.
Astorga
Astorga is a historic city in the province of León, Spain, known for its Roman heritage, medieval cathedral, and a Modernist Episcopal Palace designed by Antoni Gaudí.
- 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: Vigo Target entity description: Vigo is a major industrial and port city in northwestern Spain, known for its shipbuilding, fishing industry, and location on the Atlantic coast of Galicia.
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A.
Ferrol
Ferrol is a coastal city and major naval shipbuilding center in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain.
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B.
Braga
Braga is a historic city in northern Portugal known for its rich religious heritage, baroque architecture, and status as a regional cultural and educational center.
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C.
Cadiz
Cádiz is an ancient port city in southwestern Spain that historically served as a major hub for transatlantic Spanish galleon trade and remains known for its maritime heritage and coastal charm.
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D.
Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is a historic city in northwestern Spain renowned as the culmination of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage and for its UNESCO-listed Old Town centered around the cathedral said to house the remains of Saint James.
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E.
Astorga
Astorga is a historic city in the province of León, Spain, known for its Roman heritage, medieval cathedral, and a Modernist Episcopal Palace designed by Antoni Gaudí.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| coast | Atlantic coast of Galicia ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| dialingCode | +34 ⓘ |
| economicRole |
important commercial port in Spain
ⓘ
major fishing hub in Europe ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Vigo City Council
ⓘ
linked to:
Vigo
|
| hasAirport |
Vigo–Peinador Airport
ⓘ
linked to:
Vigo Airport
|
| hasAttraction |
Casco Vello (old town)
ⓘ
Castro Fortress ⓘ Cíes Islands ⓘ Samil Beach ⓘ |
| hasBay |
Vigo Bay
ⓘ
linked to:
Ría de Vigo
|
| hasIndustrialFacility | PSA Peugeot Citroën plant ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
automotive manufacturing
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ food processing ⓘ shipbuilding ⓘ |
| hasPort |
Port of Vigo
ⓘ
major fishing port ⓘ |
| hasSportsTeam |
RC Celta de Vigo
ⓘ
linked to:
Celta de Vigo
|
| hasStadium | Balaídos Stadium ⓘ |
| hasStatus | largest city in Galicia by population ⓘ |
| hasUniversity |
University of Vigo
ⓘ
linked to:
Universidade de Vigo
|
| is |
major industrial city
ⓘ
major port city ⓘ |
| knownFor |
automotive industry
ⓘ
fishing industry ⓘ seafood processing ⓘ shipbuilding industry ⓘ |
| language |
Galician
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Galicia
ⓘ
Rías Baixas ⓘ northwestern Spain ⓘ
linked to:
northern Spain
|
| locatedOn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Iberian Peninsula ⓘ Ría de Vigo ⓘ |
| near | Cíes Islands ⓘ |
| partOf | Province of Pontevedra ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | 362xx ⓘ |
| region | northwest Iberian Atlantic arc ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | PO ⓘ |
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: Vigo Description of subject: Vigo is a major industrial and port city in northwestern Spain, known for its shipbuilding, fishing industry, and location on the Atlantic coast of Galicia.
Referenced by (69)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
European Union fisheries policy
linked to: Vigo
linked to: Vigo
linked to: Vigo
linked to: Vigo
linked to: Vigo
linked to: Vigo
subject linked to:
Santiago (in Galician usage context)
linked to: Vigo
linked to: Vigo
linked to: Vigo
linked to: Vigo
linked to: Vigo
subject linked to:
Casco Vello (old town)
subject linked to:
Casco Vello (old town)
linked to: Vigo
subject linked to:
Casco Vello (old town)
linked to: Vigo