Salvador
E543781
Salvador is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its Afro-Brazilian culture, colonial architecture, and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salvador canonical | 42 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5689170 — 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: Salvador Context triple: [Northeast Region of Brazil, capital, Salvador]
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A.
Salvador
"Salvador" is a 1986 political drama film directed by Oliver Stone, in which James Woods delivers an acclaimed performance as a cynical journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War.
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B.
Salvador
Salvador is a metro station on Line 1 of the Santiago Metro in Santiago, Chile.
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C.
Salvador
Salvador is the given name of the renowned Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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D.
São Salvador do Mundo
São Salvador do Mundo is a municipality on Santiago Island in Cape Verde, known for its rural communities and mountainous inland landscapes.
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E.
Port of Salvador
The Port of Salvador is a major Brazilian seaport and cargo hub on the Atlantic coast, serving as a key gateway for trade in northeastern Brazil.
- 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: Salvador Target entity description: Salvador is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its Afro-Brazilian culture, colonial architecture, and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
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A.
Salvador
Salvador is the given name of the renowned Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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B.
Salvador
"Salvador" is a 1986 political drama film directed by Oliver Stone, in which James Woods delivers an acclaimed performance as a cynical journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War.
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C.
Salvador
Salvador is a metro station on Line 1 of the Santiago Metro in Santiago, Chile.
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D.
São Salvador do Mundo
São Salvador do Mundo is a municipality on Santiago Island in Cape Verde, known for its rural communities and mountainous inland landscapes.
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E.
Port of Salvador
The Port of Salvador is a major Brazilian seaport and cargo hub on the Atlantic coast, serving as a key gateway for trade in northeastern Brazil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| area | approximately 693 square kilometers ⓘ |
| capitalPeriodEnd | 1763 ⓘ |
| capitalPeriodStart | 1549 ⓘ |
| climate | tropical rainforest climate ⓘ |
| coast | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| cuisineSpecialty |
acarajé
ⓘ
moqueca baiana ⓘ vatapá ⓘ |
| culturalInfluence |
African
ⓘ
Indigenous ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ |
| demonym | Soteropolitano ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
commerce
ⓘ
port activities ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| formerName | São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Tomé de Sousa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1549 ⓘ |
| hasFootballClub |
Esporte Clube Bahia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Esporte Clube Vitória NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPort | Port of Salvador NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | Afro-Brazilian culture ⓘ |
| isCapitalOf | Bahia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Afro-Brazilian culture
ⓘ
Barra Lighthouse (Farol da Barra) NERFINISHED ⓘ Carnival celebrations ⓘ Igreja de São Francisco baroque church NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal beaches ⓘ colonial architecture ⓘ elevador Lacerda urban elevator NERFINISHED ⓘ historic center Pelourinho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Portuguese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Bahia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Northeast Region of Brazil ⓘ |
| majorEvent | Salvador Carnival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicGenre |
axé music
ⓘ
samba-reggae ⓘ |
| population | approximately 2.9 million (early 2020s) ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Candomblé
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| shortName | Salvador da Bahia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sports | football ⓘ |
| timeZone | Brasília Time ⓘ |
| unescoInscriptionYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| unescoStatus | Historic Centre of Salvador is a UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| utcOffset | −03:00 ⓘ |
| wasCapitalOf | Colonial Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Salvador Description of subject: Salvador is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its Afro-Brazilian culture, colonial architecture, and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pelourinho
subject surface form:
Igreja de São Francisco (Salvador)