Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil
E791941
Ubá is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, known as the birthplace of famed composer and musician Ary Barroso.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9328433 — 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: Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil Context triple: [Ary Barroso, placeOfBirth, Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil]
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A.
Itajubá, Brazil
Itajubá, Brazil is a city in the state of Minas Gerais known for its industrial base, particularly in aerospace and defense manufacturing, and for hosting a major Airbus Helicopters production facility.
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B.
Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Diamantina, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is a historic colonial-era city known for its well-preserved architecture and role in the country’s diamond mining past.
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C.
Chaves, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Chaves, Minas Gerais, Brazil is a locality in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, known primarily as a small rural community within the region.
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D.
Paraisópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Paraisópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil is a small municipality in southeastern Brazil known as the birthplace of influential Brazilian sculptor and graphic artist Amílcar de Castro.
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E.
Igarassu
Igarassu is one of Brazil’s oldest colonial towns, known for its historic churches and coastal location in the northeastern state of Pernambuco.
- 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: Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil Target entity description: Ubá is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, known as the birthplace of famed composer and musician Ary Barroso.
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A.
Itajubá, Brazil
Itajubá, Brazil is a city in the state of Minas Gerais known for its industrial base, particularly in aerospace and defense manufacturing, and for hosting a major Airbus Helicopters production facility.
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B.
Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Diamantina, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is a historic colonial-era city known for its well-preserved architecture and role in the country’s diamond mining past.
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C.
Chaves, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Chaves, Minas Gerais, Brazil is a locality in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, known primarily as a small rural community within the region.
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D.
Paraisópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Paraisópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil is a small municipality in southeastern Brazil known as the birthplace of influential Brazilian sculptor and graphic artist Amílcar de Castro.
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E.
Igarassu
Igarassu is one of Brazil’s oldest colonial towns, known for its historic churches and coastal location in the northeastern state of Pernambuco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
mesoregion Zona da Mata (Minas Gerais)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
microregion of Ubá ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf | Ary Barroso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| climateClassification | Cwa (Köppen) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | -21.1200,-42.9400 ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Southeast Region of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| currency | Brazilian real NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicsCharacteristic | predominantly urban population ⓘ |
| economyType |
agriculture
ⓘ
commerce ⓘ furniture industry ⓘ |
| governmentType | municipal government with mayor–council system ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalGovernment | Prefeitura Municipal de Ubá NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Ary Barroso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
rural area of Ubá
ⓘ
urban area of Ubá ⓘ |
| hasPublicHoliday | municipal anniversary day of Ubá ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Brazilian Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalSystem | Brazilian law ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Minas Gerais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | State of Minas Gerais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInOrNearby | Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRiverBasin | Paraíba do Sul river basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Juiz de Fora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Tupi–Guarani term "Ubá" ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
Portuguese language
ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese
|
| partOf |
Brazilian state of Minas Gerais
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Federative Republic of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodeSystem | CEP (Brazilian postal code) ⓘ |
| primarySectorActivity |
coffee cultivation
ⓘ
dairy farming ⓘ horticulture ⓘ |
| regionalRole |
furniture production hub in Minas Gerais
ⓘ
local commercial center ⓘ |
| roadConnection |
BR-120 (regional connection)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MG-120 highway NERFINISHED ⓘ MG-265 highway ⓘ |
| secondarySectorActivity |
furniture manufacturing
ⓘ
wood processing ⓘ |
| tertiarySectorActivity |
retail trade
ⓘ
services ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Brasília Time
ⓘ
UTC−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: Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil Description of subject: Ubá is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, known as the birthplace of famed composer and musician Ary Barroso.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.