Captaincy General of Cuba
E141160
The Captaincy General of Cuba was a major Spanish colonial administrative district in the Caribbean that governed the island of Cuba from the 16th to the 19th century.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captaincy General of Cuba canonical | 12 |
| Capitanía General de Cuba | 1 |
| Spanish colonial administration in Cuba | 1 |
| Spanish colonial era in Cuba | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1117163 — 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 General of Cuba Context triple: [José Martí, birthPlace, Captaincy General of Cuba]
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Captaincy General of Venezuela
The Captaincy General of Venezuela was a Spanish colonial administrative district in northern South America that governed the territory of present-day Venezuela until its independence movements in the early 19th century.
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Guatemala Captaincy General
The Guatemala Captaincy General was a major administrative division of the Spanish Empire in Central America, encompassing much of present-day Guatemala and neighboring regions under colonial rule.
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C.
Captaincy General of Chile
The Captaincy General of Chile was a Spanish colonial administrative territory in South America that governed the region corresponding largely to modern-day Chile until its independence.
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D.
Adelantado of Florida
Adelantado of Florida was a Spanish royal title granting Juan Ponce de León authority to conquer, govern, and colonize the region of Florida in the early 16th century.
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Viceroyalty of New Granada
The Viceroyalty of New Granada was a major Spanish colonial administrative region in northern South America that encompassed territories of present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela.
- 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 General of Cuba Target entity description: The Captaincy General of Cuba was a major Spanish colonial administrative district in the Caribbean that governed the island of Cuba from the 16th to the 19th century.
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A.
Captaincy General of Venezuela
The Captaincy General of Venezuela was a Spanish colonial administrative district in northern South America that governed the territory of present-day Venezuela until its independence movements in the early 19th century.
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B.
Guatemala Captaincy General
The Guatemala Captaincy General was a major administrative division of the Spanish Empire in Central America, encompassing much of present-day Guatemala and neighboring regions under colonial rule.
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C.
Captaincy General of Chile
The Captaincy General of Chile was a Spanish colonial administrative territory in South America that governed the region corresponding largely to modern-day Chile until its independence.
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D.
Adelantado of Florida
Adelantado of Florida was a Spanish royal title granting Juan Ponce de León authority to conquer, govern, and colonize the region of Florida in the early 16th century.
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E.
Viceroyalty of New Granada
The Viceroyalty of New Granada was a major Spanish colonial administrative region in northern South America that encompassed territories of present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela.
- 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: Captaincy General of Cuba Description of subject: The Captaincy General of Cuba was a major Spanish colonial administrative district in the Caribbean that governed the island of Cuba from the 16th to the 19th century.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Spanish colonial era in Cuba
this entity surface form:
Spanish colonial administration in Cuba
this entity surface form:
Capitanía General de Cuba