Maio (Cape Verde)
E180176
Maio is a relatively flat, sparsely populated island in Cape Verde known for its long sandy beaches, salt flats, and dry, semi-arid landscapes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maio, Cape Verde | 6 |
| Maio (Cape Verde) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1421203 — 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: Maio (Cape Verde) Context triple: [Macaronesia, hasPart, Maio (Cape Verde)]
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A.
Boa Vista (Cape Verde)
Boa Vista is a Cape Verdean island in the Atlantic Ocean known for its extensive white-sand beaches, sand dunes, and important sea turtle nesting sites.
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B.
Brava (Cape Verde)
Brava is the smallest inhabited island of Cape Verde, known for its rugged volcanic landscape, mild climate, and traditional Creole culture within the Macaronesian archipelago.
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C.
Fogo (Cape Verde)
Fogo (Cape Verde) is a volcanic island in the Cape Verde archipelago, dominated by the active stratovolcano Pico do Fogo and known for its dramatic landscapes and coffee cultivation.
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D.
São Vicente (Cape Verde)
São Vicente is a culturally vibrant island and municipality in Cape Verde, known for its port city Mindelo, lively music scene, and important role in the country’s maritime and cultural life.
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E.
Santo Antão (Cape Verde)
Santo Antão is the westernmost and one of the largest islands of Cape Verde, renowned for its dramatic mountainous landscapes, deep valleys, and lush hiking trails.
- 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: Maio (Cape Verde) Target entity description: Maio is a relatively flat, sparsely populated island in Cape Verde known for its long sandy beaches, salt flats, and dry, semi-arid landscapes.
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A.
Boa Vista (Cape Verde)
Boa Vista is a Cape Verdean island in the Atlantic Ocean known for its extensive white-sand beaches, sand dunes, and important sea turtle nesting sites.
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B.
Brava (Cape Verde)
Brava is the smallest inhabited island of Cape Verde, known for its rugged volcanic landscape, mild climate, and traditional Creole culture within the Macaronesian archipelago.
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C.
Fogo (Cape Verde)
Fogo (Cape Verde) is a volcanic island in the Cape Verde archipelago, dominated by the active stratovolcano Pico do Fogo and known for its dramatic landscapes and coffee cultivation.
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D.
São Vicente (Cape Verde)
São Vicente is a culturally vibrant island and municipality in Cape Verde, known for its port city Mindelo, lively music scene, and important role in the country’s maritime and cultural life.
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E.
Santo Antão (Cape Verde)
Santo Antão is the westernmost and one of the largest islands of Cape Verde, renowned for its dramatic mountainous landscapes, deep valleys, and lush hiking trails.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
island
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf |
Cape Verde Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Verde
|
| alsoKnownAs |
Ilha do Maio
ⓘ
Maio Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| area |
approximately 104 square miles
ⓘ
approximately 269 square kilometres ⓘ |
| biodiversityFeature |
coastal vegetation
ⓘ
dry shrubland ⓘ |
| capital | Porto Inglês ⓘ |
| climate |
arid
ⓘ
semi-arid ⓘ |
| coastlineCharacteristic |
low cliffs
ⓘ
sandy beaches ⓘ |
| country |
Cape Verde Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Verde
|
| economicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
salt extraction ⓘ small-scale agriculture ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 1,430 feet
ⓘ
approximately 436 metres ⓘ |
| geology | volcanic origin ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Alcatraz Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Alcatraz
Calheta ⓘ Morro ⓘ Pedro Vaz ⓘ Porto Inglês ⓘ Ribeira Dom João ⓘ |
| highestPoint | Monte Penoso ⓘ |
| landscape |
dry
ⓘ
relatively flat ⓘ semi-arid ⓘ |
| localLanguage | Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Sotavento Islands ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
coastal plains
ⓘ
long sandy beaches ⓘ salt flats ⓘ sand dunes ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cape Verde Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Verde archipelago
|
| population | approximately 7,000 to 8,000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| populationCharacteristic | sparsely populated ⓘ |
| serves | Maio ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Cape Verde Time
ⓘ
surface form:
Cabo Verde Time
|
| tourismAttraction |
beach tourism
ⓘ
nature observation ⓘ quiet rural environment ⓘ |
| transport | Maio Airport ⓘ |
| utcOffset | UTC−01:00 ⓘ |
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: Maio (Cape Verde) Description of subject: Maio is a relatively flat, sparsely populated island in Cape Verde known for its long sandy beaches, salt flats, and dry, semi-arid landscapes.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Boa Vista (Cape Verde)
this entity surface form:
Maio, Cape Verde
this entity surface form:
Maio, Cape Verde
this entity surface form:
Maio, Cape Verde
this entity surface form:
Maio, Cape Verde