São Luís
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São Luís is the historic capital of the Brazilian state of Maranhão, known for its well-preserved colonial architecture and rich Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| São Luís canonical | 21 |
| São Luís, Maranhão | 3 |
| São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil | 2 |
| São Luís metropolitan area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3376378 — 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: São Luís Context triple: [Portuguese America, majorCity, São Luís]
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A.
Belém
Belém is a historic riverside district of Lisbon, Portugal, known for its monuments of the Age of Discoveries, including the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery.
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B.
Belém do Pará
Belém do Pará is a major port city in northern Brazil, known as the gateway to the Amazon region and an important cultural and economic center.
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C.
Aracaju
Aracaju is a coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its planned urban layout, beaches, and role as an administrative and economic center.
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D.
Maceió
Maceió is a coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its white-sand beaches, turquoise waters, and vibrant tourism industry.
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E.
Recife
Recife is a major coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its historic colonial architecture, extensive waterways, and role as an important cultural and economic center.
- 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: São Luís Target entity description: São Luís is the historic capital of the Brazilian state of Maranhão, known for its well-preserved colonial architecture and rich Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage.
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A.
Belém
Belém is a historic riverside district of Lisbon, Portugal, known for its monuments of the Age of Discoveries, including the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery.
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B.
Belém do Pará
Belém do Pará is a major port city in northern Brazil, known as the gateway to the Amazon region and an important cultural and economic center.
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C.
Aracaju
Aracaju is a coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its planned urban layout, beaches, and role as an administrative and economic center.
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D.
Maceió
Maceió is a coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its white-sand beaches, turquoise waters, and vibrant tourism industry.
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E.
Recife
Recife is a major coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its historic colonial architecture, extensive waterways, and role as an important cultural and economic center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: São Luís Description of subject: São Luís is the historic capital of the Brazilian state of Maranhão, known for its well-preserved colonial architecture and rich Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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