Coimbra
E12101
Coimbra is a historic Portuguese city known for its medieval architecture and the University of Coimbra, one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world.
All labels observed (14)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coimbra canonical | 179 |
| Coimbra, Portugal | 9 |
| city of Coimbra | 7 |
| Alta (upper town of Coimbra) | 1 |
| City of Coimbra | 1 |
| Coimbra city | 1 |
| Coimbra city center | 1 |
| Coimbra historical center | 1 |
| Coimbra metropolitan area | 1 |
| Coimbra old quarter | 1 |
| Coimbra old town | 1 |
| Coimbrão | 1 |
| Santa Clara (Coimbra) | 1 |
| Sofia (lower town of Coimbra) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T65274 — 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: Coimbra Context triple: [Coimbra Group, foundedInCity, Coimbra]
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A.
Lisbon
Lisbon is the coastal capital city of Portugal, renowned for its historic architecture, hilly landscape, and role as a major cultural and economic center in Europe.
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B.
Sabrosa
Sabrosa is a small municipality in Portugal’s Douro region, historically notable as the birthplace of explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
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C.
Albufeira
Albufeira is a popular coastal resort city in Portugal’s Algarve region, known for its beaches, nightlife, and tourism.
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D.
Valladolid
Valladolid is a historic city in northwestern Spain that served as a major political and cultural center, including as a former capital of the Spanish monarchy.
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E.
Algarve
Algarve is a popular coastal region in southern Portugal known for its beaches, cliffs, and resort towns.
- 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: Coimbra Target entity description: Coimbra is a historic Portuguese city known for its medieval architecture and the University of Coimbra, one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world.
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A.
Lisbon
Lisbon is the coastal capital city of Portugal, renowned for its historic architecture, hilly landscape, and role as a major cultural and economic center in Europe.
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B.
Sabrosa
Sabrosa is a small municipality in Portugal’s Douro region, historically notable as the birthplace of explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
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C.
Albufeira
Albufeira is a popular coastal resort city in Portugal’s Algarve region, known for its beaches, nightlife, and tourism.
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D.
Valladolid
Valladolid is a historic city in northwestern Spain that served as a major political and cultural center, including as a former capital of the Spanish monarchy.
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E.
Algarve
Algarve is a popular coastal region in southern Portugal known for its beaches, cliffs, and resort towns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Coimbra Description of subject: Coimbra is a historic Portuguese city known for its medieval architecture and the University of Coimbra, one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world.
Referenced by (206)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Coimbra historical center
this entity surface form:
city of Coimbra
this entity surface form:
Coimbra, Portugal
this entity surface form:
Coimbra, Portugal
this entity surface form:
Coimbra, Portugal