Alagoas
E26260
Alagoas is a small coastal state in northeastern Brazil known for its picturesque beaches, lagoons, and colonial-era history.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alagoas canonical | 31 |
| state of Alagoas | 8 |
| Brazilian state of Alagoas | 2 |
| State of Alagoas | 2 |
| Alagoas state | 1 |
| Alagoas, Brazil | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T195816 — 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: Alagoas Context triple: [Dutch Brazil, territoryIncludes, Alagoas]
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A.
Sergipe
Sergipe is a small coastal state in northeastern Brazil known for its Atlantic shoreline, colonial history, and role in the broader Dutch and Portuguese colonial era.
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B.
Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a northeastern Brazilian state known for its historic capital Recife, rich colonial and Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage, and significant role in Brazil’s sugarcane economy.
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C.
Paraíba
Paraíba is a state in northeastern Brazil known for its Atlantic coastline, colonial history, and capital city João Pessoa.
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D.
Ceará
Ceará is a state in northeastern Brazil known for its long Atlantic coastline, semi-arid interior, and vibrant cultural traditions centered around its capital, Fortaleza.
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E.
Rio Grande do Norte
Rio Grande do Norte is a northeastern Brazilian state known for its coastal capital Natal, extensive beaches, and historical role in early colonial and Dutch 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: Alagoas Target entity description: Alagoas is a small coastal state in northeastern Brazil known for its picturesque beaches, lagoons, and colonial-era history.
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A.
Sergipe
Sergipe is a small coastal state in northeastern Brazil known for its Atlantic shoreline, colonial history, and role in the broader Dutch and Portuguese colonial era.
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B.
Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a northeastern Brazilian state known for its historic capital Recife, rich colonial and Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage, and significant role in Brazil’s sugarcane economy.
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C.
Paraíba
Paraíba is a state in northeastern Brazil known for its Atlantic coastline, colonial history, and capital city João Pessoa.
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D.
Ceará
Ceará is a state in northeastern Brazil known for its long Atlantic coastline, semi-arid interior, and vibrant cultural traditions centered around its capital, Fortaleza.
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E.
Rio Grande do Norte
Rio Grande do Norte is a northeastern Brazilian state known for its coastal capital Natal, extensive beaches, and historical role in early colonial and Dutch Brazil.
- 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: Alagoas Description of subject: Alagoas is a small coastal state in northeastern Brazil known for its picturesque beaches, lagoons, and colonial-era history.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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