Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Salvador, the capital of Brazil’s Bahia state, is a major coastal city known for its Afro-Brazilian culture, colonial architecture, and historic role as the country’s first capital.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salvador, Bahia, Brazil canonical | 19 |
| Salvador, Bahia | 18 |
| Salvador | 11 |
| Salvador da Bahia | 1 |
| Salvador, Brazil | 1 |
| downtown Salvador | 1 |
| lower city of Salvador | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T484907 — 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, Bahia, Brazil Context triple: [Roberto Azevêdo, placeOfBirth, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil]
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A.
Salvador
Salvador is the given name of the renowned Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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B.
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro is a major Brazilian coastal city famed for its stunning beaches, dramatic landscape, Carnival festival, and iconic Christ the Redeemer statue.
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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.
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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E.
Olinda
Olinda is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
- 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, Bahia, Brazil Target entity description: Salvador, the capital of Brazil’s Bahia state, is a major coastal city known for its Afro-Brazilian culture, colonial architecture, and historic role as the country’s first capital.
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A.
Salvador
Salvador is the given name of the renowned Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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B.
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro is a major Brazilian coastal city famed for its stunning beaches, dramatic landscape, Carnival festival, and iconic Christ the Redeemer statue.
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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.
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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E.
Olinda
Olinda is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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, Bahia, Brazil Description of subject: Salvador, the capital of Brazil’s Bahia state, is a major coastal city known for its Afro-Brazilian culture, colonial architecture, and historic role as the country’s first capital.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.