Captaincy of Paraíba
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The Captaincy of Paraíba was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern region along the Atlantic coast, centered around the area of present-day Paraíba state.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captaincy of Paraíba canonical | 1 |
| Captaincy of Rio Grande do Norte | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9070000 — 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: Captaincy of Paraíba Context triple: [Captaincy of Pernambuco, borderedBy, Captaincy of Paraíba]
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A.
Captaincy of Pernambuco
The Captaincy of Pernambuco was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil, centered on the lucrative sugar-producing region around present-day Recife and Olinda.
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B.
Captaincy of Ceará
The Captaincy of Ceará was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil that encompassed the territory of present-day Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
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C.
Captaincy of Piauí
The Captaincy of Piauí was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern interior, corresponding roughly to the modern Brazilian state of Piauí.
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D.
Captaincy of Itamaracá
The Captaincy of Itamaracá was a hereditary Portuguese colonial administrative division in northeastern Brazil, centered on the island of Itamaracá and surrounding mainland areas during the early colonial period.
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E.
Captaincy of Bahia
The Captaincy of Bahia was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil centered on the important coastal city of Salvador, which served as an early capital and key political, economic, and military hub in the region.
- 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: Captaincy of Paraíba Target entity description: The Captaincy of Paraíba was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern region along the Atlantic coast, centered around the area of present-day Paraíba state.
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A.
Captaincy of Pernambuco
The Captaincy of Pernambuco was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil, centered on the lucrative sugar-producing region around present-day Recife and Olinda.
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B.
Captaincy of Ceará
The Captaincy of Ceará was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil that encompassed the territory of present-day Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
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C.
Captaincy of Piauí
The Captaincy of Piauí was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern interior, corresponding roughly to the modern Brazilian state of Piauí.
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D.
Captaincy of Itamaracá
The Captaincy of Itamaracá was a hereditary Portuguese colonial administrative division in northeastern Brazil, centered on the island of Itamaracá and surrounding mainland areas during the early colonial period.
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E.
Captaincy of Bahia
The Captaincy of Bahia was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil centered on the important coastal city of Salvador, which served as an early capital and key political, economic, and military hub in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese colonial administrative division
ⓘ
captaincy of Brazil ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | city of Paraíba ⓘ |
| administrativeLanguage | Portuguese language ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Captaincy of Pernambuco
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Captaincy of Rio Grande do Norte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital |
Cidade da Paraíba
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Filipéia de Nossa Senhora das Neves NERFINISHED ⓘ João Pessoa NERFINISHED ⓘ Paraíba do Norte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colonialPower | Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colonialSystem | Portuguese captaincy system ⓘ |
| country | Portuguese Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFrom |
Captaincy of Itamaracá
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Captaincy of Pernambuco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved |
1821
ⓘ
19th century ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
slave labor
ⓘ
sugar production ⓘ sugarcane cultivation ⓘ |
| established |
1574
ⓘ
16th century ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Kingdom of Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType |
hereditary captaincy
ⓘ
royal captaincy ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Colonial Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| indigenousPresence | Potiguara people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Portuguese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Northeast Region of Brazil ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Atlantic coast of Brazil ⓘ |
| mainRiver | Paraíba River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Paraíba River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialReligion | Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Portuguese America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentDayLocation |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Paraíba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionType | coastal captaincy ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Province of Paraíba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantConflict | Dutch–Portuguese War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Dutch occupation of Paraíba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sovereignSuccessor | Empire of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1574–1821 ⓘ |
| usedCurrency |
Brazilian real (colonial)
NERFINISHED
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Portuguese real NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Captaincy of Paraíba Description of subject: The Captaincy of Paraíba was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern region along the Atlantic coast, centered around the area of present-day Paraíba state.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Captaincy of Rio Grande do Norte