Nova Sintra
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Nova Sintra is the main town and administrative center of the island of Brava in Cape Verde, known for its colonial architecture and mountainous setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nova Sintra canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3809124 — 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: Nova Sintra Context triple: [Brava, hasCapital, Nova Sintra]
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A.
Sintra
Sintra is a historic Portuguese town near Lisbon, renowned for its romantic 19th-century palaces, castles, and lush hillside landscapes.
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B.
Sabrosa
Sabrosa is a small municipality in Portugal’s Douro region, historically notable as the birthplace of explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
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C.
Vila Real
Vila Real is a historic city in northern Portugal known for its scenic Douro Valley surroundings and notable Baroque architecture.
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D.
Mosteiros
Mosteiros is a coastal civil parish on the western tip of São Miguel Island in the Azores, known for its volcanic rock formations, natural swimming pools, and scenic Atlantic views.
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E.
Vila de Rei
Vila de Rei is a small inland municipality in central Portugal known for its rural landscapes and its location near the country’s geodesic 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: Nova Sintra Target entity description: Nova Sintra is the main town and administrative center of the island of Brava in Cape Verde, known for its colonial architecture and mountainous setting.
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A.
Sintra
Sintra is a historic Portuguese town near Lisbon, renowned for its romantic 19th-century palaces, castles, and lush hillside landscapes.
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B.
Sabrosa
Sabrosa is a small municipality in Portugal’s Douro region, historically notable as the birthplace of explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
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C.
Vila Real
Vila Real is a historic city in northern Portugal known for its scenic Douro Valley surroundings and notable Baroque architecture.
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D.
Mosteiros
Mosteiros is a coastal civil parish on the western tip of São Miguel Island in the Azores, known for its volcanic rock formations, natural swimming pools, and scenic Atlantic views.
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E.
Vila de Rei
Vila de Rei is a small inland municipality in central Portugal known for its rural landscapes and its location near the country’s geodesic center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| administrativeFunction | seat of local government of Brava ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Brava ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country |
Cape Verde
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verde Islands
|
| elevationFeature | situated in interior highlands of Brava ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle | colonial architecture ⓘ |
| hasClimate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
colonial-era buildings
ⓘ
traditional Cape Verdean houses ⓘ viewpoints over Brava’s mountains ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Portuguese colonial heritage ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Cape Verdean Creole
ⓘ
Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Cova Joana
ⓘ
linked to:
Cova Rodela
Fajã d’Água ⓘ Furna ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 9110 ⓘ |
| hasPublicSquare | central square of Nova Sintra ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Catholic church of Nova Sintra ⓘ |
| hasTransport | road connections to coastal villages on Brava ⓘ |
| isTouristDestinationFor |
cultural tourism
ⓘ
hiking ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Sotavento Islands ⓘ island of Brava ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
Republic of Cabo Verde
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verde Islands
|
| locatedInTimeZone |
Cabo Verde Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verde Time
|
| locatedOnIsland | Brava ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Nova Sintra (fictional city in Camões’ work) ⓘ |
| partOf |
Brava island
ⓘ
linked to:
Brava Island
Brava municipality ⓘ
linked to:
Brava Municipality
|
| role | administrative center of Brava ⓘ |
| terrainFeature | mountainous setting ⓘ |
| utcOffset | −01:00 ⓘ |
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: Nova Sintra Description of subject: Nova Sintra is the main town and administrative center of the island of Brava in Cape Verde, known for its colonial architecture and mountainous setting.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.