Roraima state
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Roraima state is Brazil’s northernmost and least populated state, located in the Amazon region and known for its vast savannas, indigenous communities, and the iconic Mount Roraima.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roraima | 2 |
| Roraima state canonical | 1 |
| State of Roraima | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6777068 — 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: Roraima state Context triple: [Wapishana language, spokenIn, Roraima state]
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A.
Amazonas state
Amazonas state is Brazil’s largest and mostly rainforest-covered state in the northwest of the country, known for encompassing much of the Amazon River basin and the city of Manaus.
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B.
Pará
Pará is a large state in northern Brazil known for its Amazon rainforest, rich biodiversity, and the major port city of Belém.
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C.
Apure State
Apure State is a largely rural and sparsely populated region in southwestern Venezuela, known for its vast Llanos plains, cattle ranching, and rich river systems that support diverse wildlife.
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D.
Rondônia
Rondônia is a state in northern Brazil known for its Amazon rainforest areas, agricultural frontier, and diverse immigrant communities, including a significant population of German Brazilians.
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E.
Amapá
Amapá is a sparsely populated state in northern Brazil, located in the Amazon region along the Atlantic coast and bordering French Guiana.
- 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: Roraima state Target entity description: Roraima state is Brazil’s northernmost and least populated state, located in the Amazon region and known for its vast savannas, indigenous communities, and the iconic Mount Roraima.
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A.
Amazonas state
Amazonas state is Brazil’s largest and mostly rainforest-covered state in the northwest of the country, known for encompassing much of the Amazon River basin and the city of Manaus.
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B.
Pará
Pará is a large state in northern Brazil known for its Amazon rainforest, rich biodiversity, and the major port city of Belém.
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C.
Apure State
Apure State is a largely rural and sparsely populated region in southwestern Venezuela, known for its vast Llanos plains, cattle ranching, and rich river systems that support diverse wildlife.
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D.
Rondônia
Rondônia is a state in northern Brazil known for its Amazon rainforest areas, agricultural frontier, and diverse immigrant communities, including a significant population of German Brazilians.
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E.
Amapá
Amapá is a sparsely populated state in northern Brazil, located in the Amazon region along the Atlantic coast and bordering French Guiana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state of Brazil ⓘ |
| admittedToBrazilAsState | 1988 ⓘ |
| bordersCountry |
Guyana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Venezuela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bordersState |
Amazonas (Brazilian state)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pará NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Boa Vista NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Monte Roraima National Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Roraima NERFINISHED ⓘ Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Serra do Tepequém NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgínia Falls (Cataratas do Rio Cotingo) NERFINISHED ⓘ Yanomami Indigenous Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| hasBorderType |
international land border with Guyana
ⓘ
international land border with Venezuela ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical climate ⓘ |
| hasDemonym | roraimense ⓘ |
| hasEconomySector |
agriculture
ⓘ
cattle ranching ⓘ mining ⓘ |
| hasEcoregion |
savanna
ⓘ
tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| hasIndigenousLanguages |
Macuxi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wapichana NERFINISHED ⓘ Yanomami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISOCode | BR-RR ⓘ |
| hasMajorRiver |
Branco River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cotingo River NERFINISHED ⓘ Tacutu River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalitiesCountApprox | 15 municipalities ⓘ |
| hasNotableIndigenousPeople |
Macuxi people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wapichana people NERFINISHED ⓘ Yanomami people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | one of the lowest population densities in Brazil ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea |
Caracaraí Ecological Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roraima National Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLeastPopulatedStateOf | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNorthernmostStateOf | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Mount Roraima plateau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
indigenous communities ⓘ vast savannas ⓘ |
| largestCity | Boa Vista NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Amazon rainforest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | North Region of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Brazilian Amazon Legal Amazonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesGuianaShield | Guiana Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timezone | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| wasFormerly | Federal Territory of Rio Branco 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: Roraima state Description of subject: Roraima state is Brazil’s northernmost and least populated state, located in the Amazon region and known for its vast savannas, indigenous communities, and the iconic Mount Roraima.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Roraima
this entity surface form:
Roraima
this entity surface form:
State of Roraima