Paraíba
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Paraíba is a state in northeastern Brazil known for its Atlantic coastline, colonial history, and capital city João Pessoa.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paraíba canonical | 34 |
| State of Paraíba | 6 |
| state of Paraíba | 6 |
| Cajazeiras | 2 |
| João Pessoa | 2 |
| BR-PB | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T195812 — 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: Paraíba Context triple: [Dutch Brazil, territoryIncludes, Paraíba]
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A.
Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a northeastern Brazilian state known for its historic capital Recife, rich colonial and Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage, and significant role in Brazil’s sugarcane economy.
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B.
Recife
Recife is a major coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its historic colonial architecture, extensive waterways, and role as an important cultural and economic center.
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C.
Belém
Belém is a historic riverside district of Lisbon, Portugal, known for its monuments of the Age of Discoveries, including the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery.
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D.
Brazil
Brazil is the largest country in South America, known for its vast Amazon rainforest, diverse culture, and major cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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E.
Pantanal
The Pantanal is one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands, renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity and vast seasonally flooded plains in central South America.
- 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: Paraíba Target entity description: Paraíba is a state in northeastern Brazil known for its Atlantic coastline, colonial history, and capital city João Pessoa.
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A.
Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a northeastern Brazilian state known for its historic capital Recife, rich colonial and Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage, and significant role in Brazil’s sugarcane economy.
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B.
Recife
Recife is a major coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its historic colonial architecture, extensive waterways, and role as an important cultural and economic center.
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C.
Belém
Belém is a historic riverside district of Lisbon, Portugal, known for its monuments of the Age of Discoveries, including the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery.
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D.
Brazil
Brazil is the largest country in South America, known for its vast Amazon rainforest, diverse culture, and major cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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E.
Pantanal
The Pantanal is one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands, renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity and vast seasonally flooded plains in central South America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Paraíba Description of subject: Paraíba is a state in northeastern Brazil known for its Atlantic coastline, colonial history, and capital city João Pessoa.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.