Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
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Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is a Portuguese politician, academic, and former television political commentator who has served as the country’s president since 2016.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T876665 — 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: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Context triple: [President of Portugal, currentOfficeHolder, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa]
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A.
Mário Soares
Mário Soares was a prominent Portuguese statesman and democrat who played a key role in the country’s transition from dictatorship to democracy and later served as both prime minister and president.
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B.
José Sócrates
José Sócrates is a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011 and was a leading figure in the Socialist Party.
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C.
António Costa
António Costa is a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal and is a prominent leader of the Socialist Party.
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D.
Xanana Gusmão
Xanana Gusmão is a Timorese independence leader and statesman who became the first president and later prime minister of Timor-Leste after leading the struggle against Indonesian occupation.
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E.
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was a Portuguese military officer and strategist who played a central role in planning and leading the 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship.
- 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: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Target entity description: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is a Portuguese politician, academic, and former television political commentator who has served as the country’s president since 2016.
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A.
Mário Soares
Mário Soares was a prominent Portuguese statesman and democrat who played a key role in the country’s transition from dictatorship to democracy and later served as both prime minister and president.
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B.
José Sócrates
José Sócrates is a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011 and was a leading figure in the Socialist Party.
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C.
António Costa
António Costa is a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal and is a prominent leader of the Socialist Party.
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D.
Xanana Gusmão
Xanana Gusmão is a Timorese independence leader and statesman who became the first president and later prime minister of Timor-Leste after leading the struggle against Indonesian occupation.
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E.
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was a Portuguese military officer and strategist who played a central role in planning and leading the 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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law professor ⓘ politician ⓘ television political commentator ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
law
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political science ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1948-12-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Lisbon
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Portugal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Portugal ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Lisbon ⓘ |
| election |
2016 Portuguese presidential election
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2021 Portuguese presidential election ⓘ |
| familyName | Rebelo de Sousa ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | constitutional law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Marcelo ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | full professor ⓘ |
| headOfStateOf | Portugal ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
President of Portugal
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surface form:
His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic
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| knownFor |
approachable public style as president
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extensive media presence prior to presidency ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Portuguese ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) ⓘ |
| name | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| notableWork | television political commentary on Portuguese politics ⓘ |
| occupation |
columnist
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jurist ⓘ politician ⓘ television commentator ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| officeAssumedOn | 2016-03-09 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the Council of State of Portugal
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Minister of Parliamentary Affairs of Portugal ⓘ President of Portugal ⓘ President of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal) ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Belém Palace ⓘ |
| signature | signature of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa ⓘ |
| teachesAt |
University of Lisbon
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surface form:
University of Lisbon Faculty of Law
|
| workLocation | Lisbon ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Description of subject: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is a Portuguese politician, academic, and former television political commentator who has served as the country’s president since 2016.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
President of the Republic (Portugal)