Sebastião
E284981
Sebastião is the Portuguese variant of the given name Sebastian, commonly used in Portuguese-speaking countries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sebastião canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2561793 — 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: Sebastião Context triple: [Sebastian, hasVariant, Sebastião]
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A.
Diogo
Diogo is a masculine given name, commonly used in Portuguese-speaking countries and related to the name Diego.
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B.
Athos Bulcão
Athos Bulcão was a Brazilian artist renowned for his modernist tile panels and public art that became iconic elements of Brasília’s architectural landscape.
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C.
Guilherme
Guilherme is the Portuguese form of the given name William, commonly used in Portuguese-speaking countries.
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D.
António
António is a common Portuguese given name, notably borne by António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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E.
Amarildo
Amarildo is a former Brazilian footballer best known as a forward who starred for Botafogo and the Brazil national team in the early 1960s.
- 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: Sebastião Target entity description: Sebastião is the Portuguese variant of the given name Sebastian, commonly used in Portuguese-speaking countries.
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A.
Diogo
Diogo is a masculine given name, commonly used in Portuguese-speaking countries and related to the name Diego.
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B.
Athos Bulcão
Athos Bulcão was a Brazilian artist renowned for his modernist tile panels and public art that became iconic elements of Brasília’s architectural landscape.
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C.
Guilherme
Guilherme is the Portuguese form of the given name William, commonly used in Portuguese-speaking countries.
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D.
António
António is a common Portuguese given name, notably borne by António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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E.
Amarildo
Amarildo is a former Brazilian footballer best known as a forward who starred for Botafogo and the Brazil national team in the early 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| category |
Masculine given names
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Portuguese masculine given names ⓘ |
| equivalentForm | Sebastian ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin | Sebastian ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Sebastião ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Portuguese ⓘ |
| nameDayTradition | Christian ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Angola
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Brazil ⓘ Mozambique ⓘ Portugal ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Sebastião Description of subject: Sebastião is the Portuguese variant of the given name Sebastian, commonly used in Portuguese-speaking countries.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.