Salgueiro Maia
E15711
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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salgueiro Maia canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T119272 — 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: Salgueiro Maia Context triple: [Carnation Revolution, hasKeyFigure, Salgueiro Maia]
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A.
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.
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B.
Marcelo Caetano
Marcelo Caetano was the last prime minister of Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship, whose overthrow in 1974 during the Carnation Revolution ended decades of authoritarian rule.
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C.
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.”
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D.
António
António is a common Portuguese given name, notably borne by António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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E.
António de Spínola
António de Spínola was a Portuguese military officer and politician who played a pivotal role in the 1974 transition from dictatorship to democracy, briefly serving as President of Portugal.
- 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: Salgueiro Maia Target entity description: 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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A.
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.
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B.
Marcelo Caetano
Marcelo Caetano was the last prime minister of Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship, whose overthrow in 1974 during the Carnation Revolution ended decades of authoritarian rule.
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C.
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.”
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D.
António
António is a common Portuguese given name, notably borne by António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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E.
António de Spínola
António de Spínola was a Portuguese military officer and politician who played a pivotal role in the 1974 transition from dictatorship to democracy, briefly serving as President of Portugal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese military officer
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human ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Castelo de Vide cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| commanded | column of troops from Santarém on 25 April 1974 ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn |
Freedom Day (Portugal)
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surface form:
Portuguese Freedom Day (25 April)
|
| countryOfBirth | Portugal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Portugal ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-07-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1992-04-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Portuguese Military Academy
ⓘ
surface form:
Academia Militar (Portugal)
|
| ethnicGroup | Portuguese people ⓘ |
| familyName | Maia ⓘ |
| fullName | Fernando José Salgueiro Maia ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Fernando ⓘ |
| hasLegacy | considered a national hero of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal ⓘ |
| hasNationality | Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasPlaceNamedAfter |
Avenida Salgueiro Maia in several Portuguese cities
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Praça Salgueiro Maia in Santarém ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Commander of the Order of Liberty (posthumous) ⓘ |
| ideology | anti-authoritarianism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
refusal to use violence during the 25 April 1974 coup
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symbolic role in Portugal’s transition to democracy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Portuguese ⓘ |
| led |
military forces that surrounded the Terreiro do Paço in Lisbon on 25 April 1974
ⓘ
troops that confronted forces loyal to Marcelo Caetano at Largo do Carmo ⓘ |
| memorializedBy |
statue in Castelo de Vide
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statues in Santarém ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Portuguese Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| movement |
Portuguese Armed Forces
ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese Armed Forces Movement (MFA)
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| notableFor |
leadership in the 25 April 1974 military coup in Portugal
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role in the Carnation Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
army officer
ⓘ
military leader ⓘ |
| opposed |
Estado Novo regime
ⓘ
surface form:
Estado Novo dictatorship
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| participatedIn |
Carnation Revolution
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surface form:
25 April 1974 coup in Portugal
Carnation Revolution ⓘ |
| partOf | Armed Forces Movement officers who organized the Carnation Revolution ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Castelo de Vide ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Santarém
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surface form:
Santarem
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| residence |
Santarém
ⓘ
surface form:
Santarem
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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: Salgueiro Maia Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Movimento das Forças Armadas
subject surface form:
Praça Salgueiro Maia (Santarém)
subject surface form:
Praça Salgueiro Maia (Santarém)
subject surface form:
Praça Salgueiro Maia (Santarém)
subject surface form:
Fernando José Salgueiro Maia