Old Goa
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Old Goa is a historic former capital of Portuguese India, renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and numerous UNESCO-listed churches and convents.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Goa canonical | 30 |
| Latin Quarter of Old Goa | 1 |
| Viceroy’s Palace, Goa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2304681 — 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: Old Goa Context triple: [Churches and Convents of Goa, locatedIn, Old Goa]
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Churches and Convents of Goa
The Churches and Convents of Goa are a group of monumental 16th–17th century Portuguese-era religious buildings in Old Goa, India, renowned for their Baroque architecture and central role in the spread of Christianity in Asia.
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Carmo Convent
Carmo Convent is a ruined Gothic church and former convent in Lisbon, Portugal, now serving as an archaeological museum and prominent historical landmark.
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Bahia Palace
Bahia Palace is a 19th-century grand palace and garden complex in Marrakesh, Morocco, renowned for its intricate Islamic and Moroccan architecture and ornate interiors.
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Historic Centre of Évora
The Historic Centre of Évora is a well-preserved medieval Portuguese city core renowned for its whitewashed houses, Roman temple, and rich blend of Roman, Moorish, and Renaissance architecture.
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Belém Palace
Belém Palace is the official residence of the President of Portugal, located in Lisbon’s Belém district and serving as a central site of Portuguese political and ceremonial life.
- 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: Old Goa Target entity description: Old Goa is a historic former capital of Portuguese India, renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and numerous UNESCO-listed churches and convents.
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A.
Churches and Convents of Goa
The Churches and Convents of Goa are a group of monumental 16th–17th century Portuguese-era religious buildings in Old Goa, India, renowned for their Baroque architecture and central role in the spread of Christianity in Asia.
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B.
Carmo Convent
Carmo Convent is a ruined Gothic church and former convent in Lisbon, Portugal, now serving as an archaeological museum and prominent historical landmark.
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C.
Bahia Palace
Bahia Palace is a 19th-century grand palace and garden complex in Marrakesh, Morocco, renowned for its intricate Islamic and Moroccan architecture and ornate interiors.
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D.
Historic Centre of Évora
The Historic Centre of Évora is a well-preserved medieval Portuguese city core renowned for its whitewashed houses, Roman temple, and rich blend of Roman, Moorish, and Renaissance architecture.
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E.
Belém Palace
Belém Palace is the official residence of the President of Portugal, located in Lisbon’s Belém district and serving as a central site of Portuguese political and ceremonial life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Old Goa Description of subject: Old Goa is a historic former capital of Portuguese India, renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and numerous UNESCO-listed churches and convents.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Old Goa
linked to: Old Goa
subject linked to:
Cumbharjua Canal (as connecting channel)
subject linked to:
decennial exposition of St. Francis Xavier