Cape Verde Islands
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The Cape Verde Islands are a volcanic archipelago and island nation off the northwest coast of Africa, known for their Creole Portuguese-African culture, strategic Atlantic location, and tourism.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cape Verde | 182 |
| Republic of Cabo Verde | 28 |
| Cape Verde archipelago | 21 |
| Cabo Verde | 17 |
| Cape Verde Islands canonical | 13 |
| Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) | 1 |
| Cape Verde (English) | 1 |
| Cape Verdeans | 1 |
| Leeward Islands of Cape Verde | 1 |
| Republic of Cape Verde | 1 |
| Santiago Island (Cape Verde) | 1 |
| Sotavento and Barlavento archipelago of Cape Verde | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17593 — 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: Cape Verde Islands Context triple: [Atlantic Ocean, hasNotableIslandGroup, Cape Verde Islands]
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A.
Azores
The Azores are a remote Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, known for their volcanic landscapes, lush greenery, and mild maritime climate.
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B.
Madeira
Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean known for its rugged volcanic landscapes, mild subtropical climate, and namesake fortified wine.
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C.
Saint Helena
Saint Helena is a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, best known as the place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile and death.
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D.
Grenada
Grenada is a small Caribbean island nation known for its spice production, picturesque beaches, and lush mountainous interior.
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E.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a small Caribbean island nation known for its volcanic main island, numerous smaller Grenadine islands, and tourism centered on sailing and beaches.
- 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: Cape Verde Islands Target entity description: The Cape Verde Islands are a volcanic archipelago and island nation off the northwest coast of Africa, known for their Creole Portuguese-African culture, strategic Atlantic location, and tourism.
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A.
Azores
The Azores are a remote Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, known for their volcanic landscapes, lush greenery, and mild maritime climate.
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B.
Madeira
Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean known for its rugged volcanic landscapes, mild subtropical climate, and namesake fortified wine.
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C.
Saint Helena
Saint Helena is a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, best known as the place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile and death.
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D.
Grenada
Grenada is a small Caribbean island nation known for its spice production, picturesque beaches, and lush mountainous interior.
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E.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a small Caribbean island nation known for its volcanic main island, numerous smaller Grenadine islands, and tourism centered on sailing and beaches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Cape Verde Islands Description of subject: The Cape Verde Islands are a volcanic archipelago and island nation off the northwest coast of Africa, known for their Creole Portuguese-African culture, strategic Atlantic location, and tourism.
Referenced by (268)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New State (Portugal)
this entity surface form:
Cape Verde
this entity surface form:
Cabo Verde
this entity surface form:
Cabo Verde
this entity surface form:
Republic of Cabo Verde
subject surface form:
Santa Maria (Sal)
this entity surface form:
Cape Verde
subject surface form:
Santa Maria (Sal)
this entity surface form:
Republic of Cabo Verde
this entity surface form:
Cape Verde
subject surface form:
Isidoro
this entity surface form:
Cape Verde
subject surface form:
Cap Vert
this entity surface form:
Cape Verde (English)
this entity surface form:
Cabo Verde
this entity surface form:
Cape Verde
this entity surface form:
Cape Verde