Maldonado
E409138
Maldonado is a coastal city in southeastern Uruguay that serves as the capital of Maldonado Department and a key urban center near the resort town of Punta del Este.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maldonado canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4049663 — 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: Maldonado Context triple: [Punta del Este, hasNearbyLocality, Maldonado]
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A.
Rojas
Rojas is a Spanish surname historically associated with prominent noble families and political figures in Spain.
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B.
Garzón
Garzón is a municipality and town in south-central Colombia known as an agricultural center within the Huila Department.
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C.
Herrera
Herrera is a common Spanish surname borne by numerous notable figures across sports, politics, arts, and other fields in the Spanish-speaking world.
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D.
Magaña
Magaña is a Spanish-language surname of Hispanic origin borne by various notable individuals in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries.
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E.
Balderas
Balderas is a major Mexico City Metro station known for its central location and high passenger traffic.
- 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: Maldonado Target entity description: Maldonado is a coastal city in southeastern Uruguay that serves as the capital of Maldonado Department and a key urban center near the resort town of Punta del Este.
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A.
Rojas
Rojas is a Spanish surname historically associated with prominent noble families and political figures in Spain.
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B.
Garzón
Garzón is a municipality and town in south-central Colombia known as an agricultural center within the Huila Department.
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C.
Herrera
Herrera is a common Spanish surname borne by numerous notable figures across sports, politics, arts, and other fields in the Spanish-speaking world.
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D.
Magaña
Magaña is a Spanish-language surname of Hispanic origin borne by various notable individuals in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries.
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E.
Balderas
Balderas is a major Mexico City Metro station known for its central location and high passenger traffic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| adminLevel | municipality ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Eastern Region of Uruguay ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Maldonado Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Uruguay ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Maldonado Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
Atlantic Ocean drainage basin
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surface form:
Atlantic Ocean basin
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| governingBody |
municipality of Maldonado
ⓘ
surface form:
Municipality of Maldonado
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| hasCoastlineOn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administrative center
ⓘ
commercial center ⓘ service center for Punta del Este area ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAirport | Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport ⓘ |
| hasNearbyResort | Punta del Este ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeSystem | Uruguayan postal code system ⓘ |
| hasPublicServicesRole |
education center for Maldonado Department
ⓘ
health services hub for surrounding coastal area ⓘ |
| isUrbanCenterFor |
Maldonado region
ⓘ
surface form:
Punta del Este region
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| languageUsedInAdministration | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Maldonado Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHemisphere |
Southern Hemisphere
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Western Hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southeastern Uruguay ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Río de la Plata
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surface form:
Río de la Plata estuary
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| locatedOn | coast of Uruguay ⓘ |
| near | Punta del Este ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| partOf |
Punta del Este metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Maldonado metropolitan area
|
| primaryEconomicActivities |
commerce
ⓘ
public administration ⓘ tourism services ⓘ |
| roadConnection |
connected by road to Montevideo
ⓘ
connected by road to Rocha Department ⓘ |
| role |
departmental capital
ⓘ
key urban center ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC−03:00 ⓘ |
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: Maldonado Description of subject: Maldonado is a coastal city in southeastern Uruguay that serves as the capital of Maldonado Department and a key urban center near the resort town of Punta del Este.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.