Viceroyalty of New Spain
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The Viceroyalty of New Spain was a major administrative division of the Spanish Empire in the Americas, encompassing much of present-day Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of the present-day United States from the 16th to the early 19th century.
All labels observed (28)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T50486 — 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: Viceroyalty of New Spain Context triple: [Spanish Empire, hasPart, Viceroyalty of New Spain]
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire was a vast early modern global empire that dominated much of the Americas, parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia, becoming one of history’s most powerful colonial powers.
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Crown of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a powerful late medieval and early modern Iberian kingdom whose maritime expansion and sponsorship of voyages, including those of Christopher Columbus, made it a central driver of Spanish overseas exploration and empire-building.
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Inca Empire
The Inca Empire was a powerful pre-Columbian civilization in western South America, renowned for its vast Andean road system, advanced engineering, and administrative sophistication centered on its capital at Cusco.
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United Provinces
The United Provinces was a major administrative region of British India that later became the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after independence.
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Mexico
Mexico is a large North American country known for its rich pre-Columbian and colonial history, diverse cultures, and influential cuisine and arts.
- 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: Viceroyalty of New Spain Target entity description: The Viceroyalty of New Spain was a major administrative division of the Spanish Empire in the Americas, encompassing much of present-day Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of the present-day United States from the 16th to the early 19th century.
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A.
Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire was a vast early modern global empire that dominated much of the Americas, parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia, becoming one of history’s most powerful colonial powers.
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B.
Crown of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a powerful late medieval and early modern Iberian kingdom whose maritime expansion and sponsorship of voyages, including those of Christopher Columbus, made it a central driver of Spanish overseas exploration and empire-building.
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C.
Inca Empire
The Inca Empire was a powerful pre-Columbian civilization in western South America, renowned for its vast Andean road system, advanced engineering, and administrative sophistication centered on its capital at Cusco.
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D.
United Provinces
The United Provinces was a major administrative region of British India that later became the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after independence.
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E.
Mexico
Mexico is a large North American country known for its rich pre-Columbian and colonial history, diverse cultures, and influential cuisine and arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
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: Viceroyalty of New Spain Description of subject: The Viceroyalty of New Spain was a major administrative division of the Spanish Empire in the Americas, encompassing much of present-day Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of the present-day United States from the 16th to the early 19th century.
Referenced by (345)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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New Spain
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New Spain
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New Spain
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New Spain
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Nueva Vizcaya
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New Spain
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New Spain
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New Spain
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Nueva España
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Juan O’Donojú
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New Spain
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New Spain
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Juan Ruiz de Apodaca
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New Spain
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New Spain
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New Spain
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Pedro Fages
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New Spain
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New Spain
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New Spain