Bartolomeu Perestrelo
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Bartolomeu Perestrelo was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and colonizer who served as the first captain-donatary of the island of Porto Santo in the Madeira archipelago.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bartolomeu Perestrelo canonical | 8 |
| Bartolomeu | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1960099 — 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: Bartolomeu Perestrelo Context triple: [Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, father, Bartolomeu Perestrelo]
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A.
João da Nova
João da Nova was a Portuguese explorer and navigator of the Age of Discovery, noted for his voyages in the Indian Ocean and early contributions to Portugal’s maritime expansion.
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B.
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese navigator and fleet commander best known for leading the 1500 voyage that resulted in the European discovery of Brazil.
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C.
Diogo Cão
Diogo Cão was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer known for pioneering voyages along the west coast of Africa during the Age of Discovery.
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D.
Diogo de Boitaca
Diogo de Boitaca was a prominent early 16th-century Portuguese architect and master of the Manueline style, noted for his foundational work on major religious monuments in Portugal.
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E.
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator best known for being the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, opening the sea route from Europe to Asia.
- 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: Bartolomeu Perestrelo Target entity description: Bartolomeu Perestrelo was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and colonizer who served as the first captain-donatary of the island of Porto Santo in the Madeira archipelago.
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A.
João da Nova
João da Nova was a Portuguese explorer and navigator of the Age of Discovery, noted for his voyages in the Indian Ocean and early contributions to Portugal’s maritime expansion.
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B.
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese navigator and fleet commander best known for leading the 1500 voyage that resulted in the European discovery of Brazil.
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C.
Diogo Cão
Diogo Cão was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer known for pioneering voyages along the west coast of Africa during the Age of Discovery.
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D.
Diogo de Boitaca
Diogo de Boitaca was a prominent early 16th-century Portuguese architect and master of the Manueline style, noted for his foundational work on major religious monuments in Portugal.
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E.
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator best known for being the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, opening the sea route from Europe to Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese navigator
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captain-donatary ⓘ colonizer ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ island ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 15th century ⓘ |
| child | Filipa Moniz Perestrelo ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Portugal
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Kingdom of Portugal ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 1395 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | c. 1457 ⓘ |
| era |
Age of Exploration
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surface form:
Age of Discovery
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| ethnicGroup | Portuguese ⓘ |
| familyName | Perestrelo ⓘ |
| givenName |
Bartolomeu Perestrelo
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bartolomeu
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| governedTerritory |
Porto Santo Island
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surface form:
Porto Santo
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| hasHonorific | captain-donatary ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
Age of Exploration
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surface form:
Portuguese Age of Discoveries
|
| historicalSignificance | pioneer in settlement of Atlantic islands ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith | Madeira Islands colonization ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the first captain-donatary of Porto Santo
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early Portuguese Atlantic island colonization ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Portuguese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Madeira ⓘ
surface form:
Madeira archipelago
|
| militaryBranch | Portuguese maritime expeditions ⓘ |
| name | Bartolomeu Perestrelo self-link ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | donatary captain ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Christopher Columbus ⓘ |
| notableWork | colonization of Porto Santo ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonial administrator
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navigator ⓘ |
| partOf | Portuguese Empire ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Atlantic Ocean
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Madeira ⓘ
surface form:
Madeira archipelago
Porto Santo Island ⓘ
surface form:
Porto Santo
|
| placeOfBirth | Kingdom of Portugal ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Porto Santo Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Porto Santo
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| positionHeld |
captain-donatary of Porto Santo
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first captain-donatary of Porto Santo ⓘ |
| relative | Bartolomeu Perestrelo self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
Bartolomeu Perestrelo
self-linksurface differs
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Filipa Moniz Perestrelo ⓘ |
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: Bartolomeu Perestrelo Description of subject: Bartolomeu Perestrelo was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and colonizer who served as the first captain-donatary of the island of Porto Santo in the Madeira archipelago.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bartolomeu Perestrelo
this entity surface form:
Bartolomeu
subject surface form:
Perestrelo family
this entity surface form:
Bartolomeu
subject surface form:
Filipa Moniz Perestrelo
subject surface form:
Christopher Columbus