CEP (Brazilian postal code system)
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CEP is Brazil’s national postal code system, used to identify specific locations and streamline mail delivery across the country.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CEP (Brazilian postal code system) canonical | 6 |
| Brazilian CEP | 4 |
| Brazilian postal code system (CEP) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5975975 — 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: CEP (Brazilian postal code system) Context triple: [Nova Descoberta (Recife), hasPostalCodeSystem, CEP (Brazilian postal code system)]
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A.
Brazilian Payment System (SPB)
The Brazilian Payment System (SPB) is the nationwide financial infrastructure that enables the clearing and settlement of payments, transfers, and other monetary transactions across Brazil’s banking and financial institutions.
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B.
Piracicaba
Piracicaba is a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known for its strong agricultural and industrial economy and as a regional educational center.
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C.
Icó
Icó is a historic municipality in northeastern Brazil known for its colonial architecture and cultural heritage within the state of Ceará.
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D.
Bemposta
Bemposta is a civil parish located within the municipality of Abrantes in central Portugal.
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E.
Guarulhos
Guarulhos is a major city in the São Paulo metropolitan area of Brazil, known as an important industrial and logistics hub.
- 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: CEP (Brazilian postal code system) Target entity description: CEP is Brazil’s national postal code system, used to identify specific locations and streamline mail delivery across the country.
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A.
Brazilian Payment System (SPB)
The Brazilian Payment System (SPB) is the nationwide financial infrastructure that enables the clearing and settlement of payments, transfers, and other monetary transactions across Brazil’s banking and financial institutions.
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B.
Piracicaba
Piracicaba is a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known for its strong agricultural and industrial economy and as a regional educational center.
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C.
Icó
Icó is a historic municipality in northeastern Brazil known for its colonial architecture and cultural heritage within the state of Ceará.
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D.
Bemposta
Bemposta is a civil parish located within the municipality of Abrantes in central Portugal.
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E.
Guarulhos
Guarulhos is a major city in the São Paulo metropolitan area of Brazil, known as an important industrial and logistics hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brazilian national standard
ⓘ
postal code system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CEP ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Correios
ⓘ
linked to:
Correios (Brazilian postal service)
|
| associatedWith | Brazilian addressing system ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| covers |
Brazilian municipalities
ⓘ
Federal District of Brazil ⓘ
linked to:
Federal District (Brazil)
all Brazilian states ⓘ rural areas ⓘ urban areas ⓘ |
| currentFormat |
8-digit code
ⓘ
NNNNN-NNN ⓘ |
| dataType | numeric code ⓘ |
| digitCount | 8 ⓘ |
| exampleLocation | São Paulo city center ⓘ |
| fullName | Código de Endereçamento Postal ⓘ |
| governmentJurisdiction |
federal government of Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Brazilian government
|
| hasExample | 01001-000 ⓘ |
| introduced | 1971 ⓘ |
| introducedInCountry | Brazil ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | Portuguese ⓘ |
| localEncoding | last three digits indicate distribution area or specific address ⓘ |
| operator |
Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos
ⓘ
linked to:
Correios (Brazilian postal service)
|
| originalFormat | 5-digit code ⓘ |
| purpose |
location identification
ⓘ
mail delivery ⓘ mail sorting ⓘ |
| regionEncoding |
first digit indicates postal region
ⓘ
first two digits indicate subregion ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ZIP Code
ⓘ
linked to:
United States ZIP code system
postal code ⓘ |
| scope | national ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Correios technical norms ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| usedBy |
courier companies
ⓘ
e-commerce platforms ⓘ postal services ⓘ |
| usedFor |
addressing letters
ⓘ
addressing parcels ⓘ logistics routing ⓘ |
| usedIn |
geocoding services in Brazil
ⓘ
online address forms in Brazil ⓘ utility billing in Brazil ⓘ |
| usesHyphen | yes ⓘ |
| validationRule |
must contain 8 digits
ⓘ
optional hyphen after fifth digit ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Arabic numerals ⓘ |
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: CEP (Brazilian postal code system) Description of subject: CEP is Brazil’s national postal code system, used to identify specific locations and streamline mail delivery across the country.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nova Descoberta
subject linked to:
Hipódromo
linked to: CEP (Brazilian postal code system)
linked to: CEP (Brazilian postal code system)
linked to: CEP (Brazilian postal code system)
linked to: CEP (Brazilian postal code system)
subject linked to:
Bela Vista neighborhood
subject linked to:
Cidade Jardim
subject linked to:
municipality of Aracati
linked to: CEP (Brazilian postal code system)
linked to: CEP (Brazilian postal code system)
linked to: CEP (Brazilian postal code system)