Paulo da Gama
E252213
Paulo da Gama was a Portuguese navigator and the brother of Vasco da Gama, who accompanied him on the pioneering sea voyage from Europe to India in the late 15th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paulo da Gama canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2244000 — 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 da Gama Context triple: [Gama, hasNotableBearer, Paulo da Gama]
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A.
Estêvão da Gama
Estêvão da Gama was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator from the famed da Gama family, active in the early period of Portuguese maritime expansion.
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B.
Francisco da Gama
Francisco da Gama is a central fictional figure in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," belonging to the eccentric, multi-generational da Gama family whose fortunes and conflicts drive much of the story’s plot.
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C.
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who pioneered the sea route from Europe to India, becoming one of the most significant explorers of the Age of Exploration.
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D.
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator best known for being the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, opening the sea route from Europe to Asia.
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E.
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese navigator and fleet commander best known for leading the 1500 voyage that resulted in the European discovery of Brazil.
- 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 da Gama Target entity description: Paulo da Gama was a Portuguese navigator and the brother of Vasco da Gama, who accompanied him on the pioneering sea voyage from Europe to India in the late 15th century.
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A.
Estêvão da Gama
Estêvão da Gama was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator from the famed da Gama family, active in the early period of Portuguese maritime expansion.
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B.
Francisco da Gama
Francisco da Gama is a central fictional figure in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," belonging to the eccentric, multi-generational da Gama family whose fortunes and conflicts drive much of the story’s plot.
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C.
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who pioneered the sea route from Europe to India, becoming one of the most significant explorers of the Age of Exploration.
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D.
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator best known for being the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, opening the sea route from Europe to Asia.
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E.
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese navigator and fleet commander best known for leading the 1500 voyage that resulted in the European discovery of Brazil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese navigator
ⓘ
explorer ⓘ sailor ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of Portugal ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
15th century
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16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Portugal ⓘ |
| employer |
Crown of Portugal
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Crown of Portugal
|
| ethnicGroup | Portuguese ⓘ |
| familyName | da Gama ⓘ |
| givenName | Paulo ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Age of Discovery
ⓘ
linked to:
Age of Exploration
|
| knownFor |
accompanying Vasco da Gama on the sea route from Europe to India
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helping establish the maritime route around the Cape of Good Hope to India ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Portuguese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Portuguese navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese Navy
|
| name | Paulo da Gama ⓘ |
| notableEvent | rounding of the Cape of Good Hope on the route to India ⓘ |
| notableWork | First Portuguese voyage from Europe to India ⓘ |
| occupation |
explorer
ⓘ
navigator ⓘ |
| participantIn | First voyage of Vasco da Gama to India ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Atlantic Ocean
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Indian Ocean ⓘ Kingdom of Portugal ⓘ coast of India ⓘ |
| relative |
Brás da Gama
ⓘ
linked to:
da Gama
Estêvão da Gama ⓘ |
| role | captain of a ship in Vasco da Gama’s fleet ⓘ |
| sibling | Vasco da Gama ⓘ |
| voyagePartner | Vasco da Gama ⓘ |
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 da Gama Description of subject: Paulo da Gama was a Portuguese navigator and the brother of Vasco da Gama, who accompanied him on the pioneering sea voyage from Europe to India in the late 15th century.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.