Cape Santa Maria
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Cape Santa Maria is a coastal headland historically noted as one of the Atlantic landmarks reached and marked by Portuguese explorers during the Age of Discovery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cape Santa Maria canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6647449 — 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: Cape Santa Maria Context triple: [Diogo Cão, placedPadrão, Cape Santa Maria]
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A.
Cape St. Mary’s
Cape St. Mary’s is a prominent headland and seabird sanctuary on the southern coast of Newfoundland, Canada, known for its dramatic cliffs and large nesting colonies of seabirds.
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B.
Cape Vidal
Cape Vidal is a scenic coastal area in South Africa known for its sandy beaches, rich marine life, and opportunities for snorkeling, fishing, and wildlife viewing.
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C.
Cape Passaro
Cape Passaro is a coastal headland at the southeastern tip of Sicily, Italy, known as the site of a significant early 18th-century naval battle.
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D.
Cape James
Cape James is a prominent headland marking the westernmost point of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
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E.
Cape Feather
Cape Feather is a power-up item in the Super Mario series that grants Mario a yellow cape, enabling him to fly and glide through levels.
- 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: Cape Santa Maria Target entity description: Cape Santa Maria is a coastal headland historically noted as one of the Atlantic landmarks reached and marked by Portuguese explorers during the Age of Discovery.
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A.
Cape St. Mary’s
Cape St. Mary’s is a prominent headland and seabird sanctuary on the southern coast of Newfoundland, Canada, known for its dramatic cliffs and large nesting colonies of seabirds.
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B.
Cape Vidal
Cape Vidal is a scenic coastal area in South Africa known for its sandy beaches, rich marine life, and opportunities for snorkeling, fishing, and wildlife viewing.
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C.
Cape Passaro
Cape Passaro is a coastal headland at the southeastern tip of Sicily, Italy, known as the site of a significant early 18th-century naval battle.
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D.
Cape James
Cape James is a prominent headland marking the westernmost point of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
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E.
Cape Feather
Cape Feather is a power-up item in the Super Mario series that grants Mario a yellow cape, enabling him to fly and glide through levels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal landform
ⓘ
headland ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Atlantic maritime routes
ⓘ
Portuguese exploration ⓘ |
| category |
Headlands of Portugal
ⓘ
Landforms of the Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Maritime history of Portugal ⓘ |
| chartedBy | Portuguese navigators ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Portugal ⓘ |
| eraOfUseAsLandmark |
15th century
ⓘ
16th century ⓘ |
| featureType | cape ⓘ |
| function | aid to maritime navigation ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Age of Discovery
ⓘ
linked to:
Age of Exploration
|
| languageOfName | Portuguese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Mary ⓘ |
| partOf |
Portuguese coast
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese Atlantic coast
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| reachedBy | Portuguese explorers ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | reference point in early Atlantic charting ⓘ |
| significance | Atlantic landmark for early oceanic voyages ⓘ |
| usedAs |
nautical landmark
ⓘ
navigation reference point ⓘ |
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: Cape Santa Maria Description of subject: Cape Santa Maria is a coastal headland historically noted as one of the Atlantic landmarks reached and marked by Portuguese explorers during the Age of Discovery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.