Spanish royalist army
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The Spanish royalist army was the military force loyal to the Spanish Crown that fought to suppress independence movements and maintain colonial rule in territories such as New Spain during the early 19th century.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2290854 — 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: Spanish royalist army Context triple: [Siege of Cuautla, opponent, Spanish royalist army]
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Spanish Army
The Spanish Army is the land warfare branch of Spain's Armed Forces, historically known for its role in maintaining the Spanish Empire and participating in major conflicts from the early modern period through contemporary international missions.
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Spanish Armed Forces
The Spanish Armed Forces are the unified military organization of Spain, comprising the Army, Navy, and Air and Space Force responsible for national defense and international missions.
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Spanish Foreign Legion
The Spanish Foreign Legion is an elite, historically Francoist-aligned unit of the Spanish Army known for its fierce combat reputation and prominent role in the Spanish Civil War and later conflicts.
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Spanish Army of Africa
The Spanish Army of Africa was Spain’s elite colonial force based in North Africa, known for its professional, battle-hardened troops and a major role in early 20th-century conflicts, including the Rif War and the Spanish Civil War.
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People's Republican Army
The People's Republican Army was a military force aligned with the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War, known for participating in key engagements such as the Battle of Guadalajara.
- 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: Spanish royalist army Target entity description: The Spanish royalist army was the military force loyal to the Spanish Crown that fought to suppress independence movements and maintain colonial rule in territories such as New Spain during the early 19th century.
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A.
Spanish Army
The Spanish Army is the land warfare branch of Spain's Armed Forces, historically known for its role in maintaining the Spanish Empire and participating in major conflicts from the early modern period through contemporary international missions.
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B.
Spanish Armed Forces
The Spanish Armed Forces are the unified military organization of Spain, comprising the Army, Navy, and Air and Space Force responsible for national defense and international missions.
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Spanish Foreign Legion
The Spanish Foreign Legion is an elite, historically Francoist-aligned unit of the Spanish Army known for its fierce combat reputation and prominent role in the Spanish Civil War and later conflicts.
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Spanish Army of Africa
The Spanish Army of Africa was Spain’s elite colonial force based in North Africa, known for its professional, battle-hardened troops and a major role in early 20th-century conflicts, including the Rif War and the Spanish Civil War.
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People's Republican Army
The People's Republican Army was a military force aligned with the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War, known for participating in key engagements such as the Battle of Guadalajara.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Spanish royalist army Description of subject: The Spanish royalist army was the military force loyal to the Spanish Crown that fought to suppress independence movements and maintain colonial rule in territories such as New Spain during the early 19th century.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Royalist forces of the Spanish Empire
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José Tomás Boves’s royalist forces
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Royalist forces of the Spanish Empire
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Melchor Aymerich – Spanish royalist forces
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Spanish royalist cavalry
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Spanish Constitutional Army
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Spanish royalist army in New Spain
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Spanish colonial army
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Spanish colonial army
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Spanish royal army
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Spanish royal army
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Spanish Army of the monarchy
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Spanish colonial militia
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Spanish colonial army