Alba
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Alba is a prominent Spanish noble house historically associated with the powerful Dukes of Alba.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alba canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2558278 — 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: Alba Context triple: [María Enríquez de Toledo y Guzmán, house, Alba]
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A.
Alba
Alba is the Gaelic name for the early medieval kingdom that evolved into the nation of Scotland.
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B.
Alba Regia
Alba Regia is the historical Latin name of the Hungarian city of Székesfehérvár, a former royal seat and coronation site.
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C.
ALBA
ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) is a regional political and economic bloc founded by left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean countries to promote social, economic, and political integration as an alternative to U.S.-backed free trade agreements.
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D.
Atilia
Atilia was the first wife of the Roman statesman Cato the Younger and the mother of two of his children.
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E.
Alva
Alva is the middle name of the famed American inventor Thomas Edison, often used as part of his full name, Thomas Alva Edison.
- 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: Alba Target entity description: Alba is a prominent Spanish noble house historically associated with the powerful Dukes of Alba.
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A.
Alba
Alba is the Gaelic name for the early medieval kingdom that evolved into the nation of Scotland.
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B.
Alba Regia
Alba Regia is the historical Latin name of the Hungarian city of Székesfehérvár, a former royal seat and coronation site.
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C.
ALBA
ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) is a regional political and economic bloc founded by left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean countries to promote social, economic, and political integration as an alternative to U.S.-backed free trade agreements.
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D.
Atilia
Atilia was the first wife of the Roman statesman Cato the Younger and the mother of two of his children.
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E.
Alva
Alva is the middle name of the famed American inventor Thomas Edison, often used as part of his full name, Thomas Alva Edison.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Alba Description of subject: Alba is a prominent Spanish noble house historically associated with the powerful Dukes of Alba.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.