Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca
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Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca was a Brazilian architect best known for designing Rio de Janeiro’s modernist Metropolitan Cathedral.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9178460 — 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: Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca Context triple: [Catedral Metropolitana de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, architect, Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca]
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A.
José da Costa Carvalho
José da Costa Carvalho was a Brazilian politician, jurist, and statesman who played a key role in the early Empire of Brazil, including serving as a regent during the minority of Emperor Pedro II.
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B.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa
Henrique Alvim Corrêa was a Brazilian illustrator and painter best known for his dark, visionary artwork created for early editions of H.G. Wells’s science fiction.
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C.
José Pinheiro de Azevedo
José Pinheiro de Azevedo was a Portuguese naval officer and politician who served as prime minister during the turbulent post-Carnation Revolution transitional period in the mid-1970s.
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D.
Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro
Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro was a prominent 19th-century Brazilian politician and lawyer who played a key role in the early imperial government, including service as a regent during Brazil’s Regency period.
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E.
Valentim de Carvalho
Valentim de Carvalho is a historic Portuguese record label and music company known for releasing and promoting many of Portugal’s most important artists.
- 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: Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca Target entity description: Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca was a Brazilian architect best known for designing Rio de Janeiro’s modernist Metropolitan Cathedral.
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A.
José da Costa Carvalho
José da Costa Carvalho was a Brazilian politician, jurist, and statesman who played a key role in the early Empire of Brazil, including serving as a regent during the minority of Emperor Pedro II.
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B.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa
Henrique Alvim Corrêa was a Brazilian illustrator and painter best known for his dark, visionary artwork created for early editions of H.G. Wells’s science fiction.
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C.
José Pinheiro de Azevedo
José Pinheiro de Azevedo was a Portuguese naval officer and politician who served as prime minister during the turbulent post-Carnation Revolution transitional period in the mid-1970s.
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D.
Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro
Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro was a prominent 19th-century Brazilian politician and lawyer who played a key role in the early imperial government, including service as a regent during Brazil’s Regency period.
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E.
Valentim de Carvalho
Valentim de Carvalho is a historic Portuguese record label and music company known for releasing and promoting many of Portugal’s most important artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
architect
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cathedral ⓘ church building ⓘ human ⓘ |
| architect | Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Portuguese ⓘ |
| location | Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| movement | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| notableWork | Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| workLocation | Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
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: Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca Description of subject: Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca was a Brazilian architect best known for designing Rio de Janeiro’s modernist Metropolitan Cathedral.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Catedral Metropolitana de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
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architect
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Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca
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subject linked to:
Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca