Tocantins
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Tocantins is a central Brazilian state known for its relatively recent creation in 1988, its capital Palmas, and its mix of Amazonian and cerrado ecosystems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tocantins canonical | 5 |
| Tocantins (state) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3535880 — 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: Tocantins Context triple: [Mato Grosso, borderedBy, Tocantins]
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A.
Rondônia
Rondônia is a state in northern Brazil known for its Amazon rainforest areas, agricultural frontier, and diverse immigrant communities, including a significant population of German Brazilians.
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B.
Piauí
Piauí is a state in northeastern Brazil known for its semi-arid landscapes, short Atlantic coastline, and rich archaeological sites such as those in Serra da Capivara National Park.
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C.
Goiás
Goiás is a large inland state in central Brazil known for its agricultural production, Cerrado savanna landscapes, and the regional capital city of Goiânia.
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D.
Pará
Pará is a large state in northern Brazil known for its Amazon rainforest, rich biodiversity, and the major port city of Belém.
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E.
Amapá
Amapá is a sparsely populated state in northern Brazil, located in the Amazon region along the Atlantic coast and bordering French Guiana.
- 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: Tocantins Target entity description: Tocantins is a central Brazilian state known for its relatively recent creation in 1988, its capital Palmas, and its mix of Amazonian and cerrado ecosystems.
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A.
Rondônia
Rondônia is a state in northern Brazil known for its Amazon rainforest areas, agricultural frontier, and diverse immigrant communities, including a significant population of German Brazilians.
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B.
Piauí
Piauí is a state in northeastern Brazil known for its semi-arid landscapes, short Atlantic coastline, and rich archaeological sites such as those in Serra da Capivara National Park.
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C.
Goiás
Goiás is a large inland state in central Brazil known for its agricultural production, Cerrado savanna landscapes, and the regional capital city of Goiânia.
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D.
Pará
Pará is a large state in northern Brazil known for its Amazon rainforest, rich biodiversity, and the major port city of Belém.
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E.
Amapá
Amapá is a sparsely populated state in northern Brazil, located in the Amazon region along the Atlantic coast and bordering French Guiana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Tocantins Description of subject: Tocantins is a central Brazilian state known for its relatively recent creation in 1988, its capital Palmas, and its mix of Amazonian and cerrado ecosystems.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.