Tomé de Sousa
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Tomé de Sousa was a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman and military officer best known as the first Governor-General of Brazil, where he founded the city of Salvador and helped establish colonial administration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tomé de Sousa canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T599806 — 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: Tomé de Sousa Context triple: [Portuguese Empire, notableGovernor, Tomé de Sousa]
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A.
Salgueiro Maia
Salgueiro Maia was a Portuguese army captain who became one of the central leaders of the 1974 military coup that peacefully overthrew the Estado Novo dictatorship.
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B.
Joaquim de Almeida
Joaquim de Almeida is a Portuguese actor known for his charismatic portrayals of villains and antiheroes in international films and television, including prominent roles in action and crime dramas.
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C.
Simão Rodrigues
Simão Rodrigues was a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit priest and one of the original companions of Ignatius of Loyola who helped establish and spread the Society of Jesus in Portugal.
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D.
João Braz de Aviz
João Braz de Aviz is a Brazilian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church known for leading the Vatican office responsible for religious orders and institutes of consecrated life.
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E.
Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Henrique Lopes de Mendonça was a Portuguese playwright, poet, and naval officer best known for writing the lyrics to Portugal’s national anthem, “A Portuguesa.”
- 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: Tomé de Sousa Target entity description: Tomé de Sousa was a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman and military officer best known as the first Governor-General of Brazil, where he founded the city of Salvador and helped establish colonial administration.
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A.
Salgueiro Maia
Salgueiro Maia was a Portuguese army captain who became one of the central leaders of the 1974 military coup that peacefully overthrew the Estado Novo dictatorship.
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B.
Joaquim de Almeida
Joaquim de Almeida is a Portuguese actor known for his charismatic portrayals of villains and antiheroes in international films and television, including prominent roles in action and crime dramas.
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C.
Simão Rodrigues
Simão Rodrigues was a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit priest and one of the original companions of Ignatius of Loyola who helped establish and spread the Society of Jesus in Portugal.
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D.
João Braz de Aviz
João Braz de Aviz is a Brazilian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church known for leading the Vatican office responsible for religious orders and institutes of consecrated life.
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E.
Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Henrique Lopes de Mendonça was a Portuguese playwright, poet, and naval officer best known for writing the lyrics to Portugal’s national anthem, “A Portuguesa.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese nobleman
ⓘ
colonial administrator ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| capitalFounded | first capital of colonial Brazil ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| continentOfActivity | South America ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
Colonial Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese America
Portugal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Portugal ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Portuguese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
colonial governance
ⓘ
military affairs ⓘ |
| founded |
Salvador
ⓘ
linked to:
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Salvador da Bahia ⓘ
linked to:
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
|
| governed |
State of Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Brazil
|
| governmentalJurisdiction | Portuguese America ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Bahia ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
founder of Salvador as colonial capital
ⓘ
key figure in early Portuguese Brazil ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Portuguese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Portuguese Army ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | fidalgo of the Portuguese Crown ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first Governor-General of Brazil
ⓘ
establishing early Portuguese colonial administration in Brazil ⓘ founding the colonial capital of Salvador ⓘ |
| notableWork |
foundation of the city of Salvador
ⓘ
organization of colonial administration in Brazil ⓘ |
| occupation |
governor
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| partOf | Portuguese Empire ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor-General of Brazil
ⓘ
first Governor-General of Brazil ⓘ |
| religion |
Catholicism
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholic Church ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| residence |
Brazil
ⓘ
Salvador ⓘ
linked to:
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
|
| roleIn |
Portuguese colonization of Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese America
|
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: Tomé de Sousa Description of subject: Tomé de Sousa was a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman and military officer best known as the first Governor-General of Brazil, where he founded the city of Salvador and helped establish colonial administration.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.