Tarrafal de São Nicolau
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Tarrafal de São Nicolau is a coastal town and important population center on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tarrafal de São Nicolau (town) | 3 |
| Tarrafal de São Nicolau canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3809032 — 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: Tarrafal de São Nicolau Context triple: [São Nicolau, otherMajorTown, Tarrafal de São Nicolau]
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A.
Fajã de São João
Fajã de São João is a small coastal settlement and lava-delta plain on the south coast of São Jorge Island in the Azores, known for its traditional houses, terraced agriculture, and scenic ocean views.
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B.
Santo Antão
Santo Antão is the westernmost and one of the largest islands of Cape Verde, renowned for its dramatic volcanic mountains, deep valleys, and lush hiking landscapes.
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C.
Ilhéu das Rolas
Ilhéu das Rolas is a small tropical island off the southern tip of São Tomé, notable for being crossed by the equator and for its beaches and ecotourism.
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D.
São Jorge Island
São Jorge Island is a long, narrow volcanic island in the central group of Portugal’s Azores archipelago, known for its dramatic cliffs, fajãs (coastal plains), and traditional cheese production.
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E.
Fundão Island
Fundão Island is an artificial island in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, best known as the main campus site of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro within Guanabara Bay.
- 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: Tarrafal de São Nicolau Target entity description: Tarrafal de São Nicolau is a coastal town and important population center on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde.
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A.
Fajã de São João
Fajã de São João is a small coastal settlement and lava-delta plain on the south coast of São Jorge Island in the Azores, known for its traditional houses, terraced agriculture, and scenic ocean views.
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B.
Santo Antão
Santo Antão is the westernmost and one of the largest islands of Cape Verde, renowned for its dramatic volcanic mountains, deep valleys, and lush hiking landscapes.
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C.
Ilhéu das Rolas
Ilhéu das Rolas is a small tropical island off the southern tip of São Tomé, notable for being crossed by the equator and for its beaches and ecotourism.
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D.
São Jorge Island
São Jorge Island is a long, narrow volcanic island in the central group of Portugal’s Azores archipelago, known for its dramatic cliffs, fajãs (coastal plains), and traditional cheese production.
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E.
Fundão Island
Fundão Island is an artificial island in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, best known as the main campus site of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro within Guanabara Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Tarrafal de São Nicolau Description of subject: Tarrafal de São Nicolau is a coastal town and important population center on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
municipality of Tarrafal de São Nicolau
linked to: Tarrafal de São Nicolau
subject linked to:
municipality of Tarrafal de São Nicolau
linked to: Tarrafal de São Nicolau
subject linked to:
municipality of Tarrafal de São Nicolau
linked to: Tarrafal de São Nicolau