Sorocaba
E306978
Sorocaba is a major industrial and commercial city in southeastern Brazil, located in the interior of the state of São Paulo.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sorocaba canonical | 28 |
| Sorocaba, São Paulo | 1 |
| city of Sorocaba | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2720353 — 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: Sorocaba Context triple: [State of São Paulo, hasCity, Sorocaba]
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A.
Ribeirão Preto
Ribeirão Preto is a major city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known as an important economic and cultural center with a strong agribusiness and services sector.
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B.
Bauru
Bauru is a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known as a regional economic and educational hub that hosts a campus of the University of São Paulo.
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C.
São Carlos
São Carlos is a Brazilian city in the state of São Paulo known as a major university and technology hub, hosting important campuses and research centers.
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D.
Guarulhos
Guarulhos is a major city in the São Paulo metropolitan area of Brazil, known as an important industrial and logistics hub.
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E.
Campinas
Campinas is a major city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known as an important industrial, technological, and transportation hub in the country.
- 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: Sorocaba Target entity description: Sorocaba is a major industrial and commercial city in southeastern Brazil, located in the interior of the state of São Paulo.
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A.
Ribeirão Preto
Ribeirão Preto is a major city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known as an important economic and cultural center with a strong agribusiness and services sector.
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B.
Bauru
Bauru is a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known as a regional economic and educational hub that hosts a campus of the University of São Paulo.
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C.
São Carlos
São Carlos is a Brazilian city in the state of São Paulo known as a major university and technology hub, hosting important campuses and research centers.
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D.
Guarulhos
Guarulhos is a major city in the São Paulo metropolitan area of Brazil, known as an important industrial and logistics hub.
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E.
Campinas
Campinas is a major city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known as an important industrial, technological, and transportation hub in the country.
- 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: Sorocaba Description of subject: Sorocaba is a major industrial and commercial city in southeastern Brazil, located in the interior of the state of São Paulo.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.