Ouro Preto
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Ouro Preto is a historic colonial mining town in southeastern Brazil renowned for its well-preserved baroque architecture and role in the country’s gold rush era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ouro Preto canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8169538 — 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: Ouro Preto Context triple: [Minas Gerais, containsCity, Ouro Preto]
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A.
Vila de Rei
Vila de Rei is a small inland municipality in central Portugal known for its rural landscapes and its location near the country’s geodesic center.
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B.
Sete Lagoas
Sete Lagoas is a city in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, known for its industrial activity and automotive manufacturing sector.
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C.
Pirapora do Bom Jesus
Pirapora do Bom Jesus is a Brazilian municipality in the state of São Paulo known as a regional religious pilgrimage center and riverside town.
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D.
Cartaxo
Cartaxo is a Portuguese town in the Ribatejo region known historically for its wine production and agricultural surroundings.
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E.
Juiz de Fora
Juiz de Fora is a major industrial and university city in the state of Minas Gerais, known for its strategic location between Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte.
- 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: Ouro Preto Target entity description: Ouro Preto is a historic colonial mining town in southeastern Brazil renowned for its well-preserved baroque architecture and role in the country’s gold rush era.
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A.
Vila de Rei
Vila de Rei is a small inland municipality in central Portugal known for its rural landscapes and its location near the country’s geodesic center.
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B.
Sete Lagoas
Sete Lagoas is a city in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, known for its industrial activity and automotive manufacturing sector.
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C.
Pirapora do Bom Jesus
Pirapora do Bom Jesus is a Brazilian municipality in the state of São Paulo known as a regional religious pilgrimage center and riverside town.
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D.
Cartaxo
Cartaxo is a Portuguese town in the Ribatejo region known historically for its wine production and agricultural surroundings.
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E.
Juiz de Fora
Juiz de Fora is a major industrial and university city in the state of Minas Gerais, known for its strategic location between Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
historic town ⓘ municipality ⓘ |
| area | 1245 square kilometres ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Aleijadinho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tiradentes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| becameCapitalOf | Minas Gerais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalOfFrom | Minas Gerais 1720–1897 ⓘ |
| climateClassification | Cwb ⓘ |
| climateType | subtropical highland climate ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| elevation |
1116 metres
ⓘ
3661 feet ⓘ |
| formerName | Vila Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAsSettlement | 1711 ⓘ |
| gainedMunicipalStatus | 1711 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Municipality of Ouro Preto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Federal University of Ouro Preto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Brazilian Gold Rush
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Inconfidência Mineira NERFINISHED ⓘ baroque architecture ⓘ colonial architecture ⓘ gold mining history ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Portuguese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minas Gerais
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southeast Region of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | BRT ⓘ |
| mayorTitle | Prefeito ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | black gold ⓘ |
| microregion | Ouro Preto microregion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableChurch |
Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pilar NERFINISHED ⓘ Igreja de São Francisco de Assis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMuseum |
Museu da Inconfidência
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Museu de Ciência e Técnica da Escola de Minas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSquare | Praça Tiradentes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | approximately 74000 ⓘ |
| populationCensusYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| postalCodeType | CEP ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivities |
education
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services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| regionSubdivisionType | mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedAsCapitalBy | Belo Horizonte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateSubdivisionName | Minas Gerais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateSubdivisionType | state ⓘ |
| UNESCOSiteId | 124 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSince | 1980 ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | −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: Ouro Preto Description of subject: Ouro Preto is a historic colonial mining town in southeastern Brazil renowned for its well-preserved baroque architecture and role in the country’s gold rush era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.