Real Audiencia of Manila
E292836
The Real Audiencia of Manila was the highest Spanish colonial court and governing body in the Philippines, overseeing judicial and administrative affairs under the authority of the Spanish Crown.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Real Audiencia of Manila canonical | 2 |
| Audiencia of Manila | 1 |
| Real Audiencia de Manila | 1 |
| Royal Audiencia of Manila | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2727501 — 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: Real Audiencia of Manila Context triple: [Simón de Anda y Salazar, authorityOver, Real Audiencia of Manila]
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A.
Audiencia of Santo Domingo
The Audiencia of Santo Domingo was a high court and administrative district of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean, centered in Santo Domingo and overseeing colonial governance and justice in parts of Spanish America.
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B.
Court of Valladolid
The Court of Valladolid was the principal seat of the Spanish monarchy during parts of the late Middle Ages and early modern period, serving as a major political and administrative center of the kingdom.
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C.
Audiencia of Lima
The Audiencia of Lima was a high court and administrative body of the Spanish Empire that governed much of South America from its seat in Lima, Peru.
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D.
Metropolitan Trial Courts of the Philippines
The Metropolitan Trial Courts of the Philippines are first-level courts that handle minor civil and criminal cases within metropolitan areas under the supervision of the Supreme Court.
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E.
Royal Audiencia of Lima
The Royal Audiencia of Lima was the principal high court and administrative tribunal of the Spanish Crown in South America, overseeing justice and governance across much of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
- 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: Real Audiencia of Manila Target entity description: The Real Audiencia of Manila was the highest Spanish colonial court and governing body in the Philippines, overseeing judicial and administrative affairs under the authority of the Spanish Crown.
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A.
Audiencia of Santo Domingo
The Audiencia of Santo Domingo was a high court and administrative district of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean, centered in Santo Domingo and overseeing colonial governance and justice in parts of Spanish America.
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B.
Court of Valladolid
The Court of Valladolid was the principal seat of the Spanish monarchy during parts of the late Middle Ages and early modern period, serving as a major political and administrative center of the kingdom.
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C.
Audiencia of Lima
The Audiencia of Lima was a high court and administrative body of the Spanish Empire that governed much of South America from its seat in Lima, Peru.
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D.
Metropolitan Trial Courts of the Philippines
The Metropolitan Trial Courts of the Philippines are first-level courts that handle minor civil and criminal cases within metropolitan areas under the supervision of the Supreme Court.
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E.
Royal Audiencia of Lima
The Royal Audiencia of Lima was the principal high court and administrative tribunal of the Spanish Crown in South America, overseeing justice and governance across much of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish colonial institution
ⓘ
audiencia ⓘ colonial high court ⓘ |
| appliesStatute |
Castilian law
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Recopilación de las Leyes de Indias ⓘ royal decrees of the Spanish Crown ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Captaincy General of the Philippines
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ Spanish East Indies ⓘ Spanish colonial period in the Philippines ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish colonial Philippines
territories under the Governor-General of the Philippines ⓘ |
| capital | Manila ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| dissolvedOrAbolished | 19th century ⓘ |
| follows | Council of the Indies ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
advise the governor-general
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implement royal decrees ⓘ oversee colonial administration ⓘ protect indigenous rights under Spanish law ⓘ review acts of the governor-general in judicial matters ⓘ serve as court of last resort in the Philippines ⓘ supervise local officials ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver |
administrative disputes
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appeals from lower colonial courts ⓘ cases involving Spanish subjects ⓘ cases involving indigenous inhabitants ⓘ civil cases ⓘ criminal cases ⓘ ecclesiastical matters in certain circumstances ⓘ |
| hasPart |
alguacil mayor
ⓘ
court clerks ⓘ fiscal ⓘ notaries ⓘ oidores ⓘ relatores ⓘ royal officials ⓘ |
| hasRole |
administrative tribunal
ⓘ
consultative body of the governor-general ⓘ governing body ⓘ highest court of appeal in the Philippines ⓘ judicial authority ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment |
governor-general of the Philippines
ⓘ
president of the audiencia ⓘ |
| historyOfTopic | Spanish colonization of the Philippines ⓘ |
| inception | 16th century ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Spanish ⓘ |
| legalSystem |
Laws of the Indies
ⓘ
Spanish law ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Manila
ⓘ
Philippines ⓘ |
| officialName |
Real Audiencia of Manila
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Real Audiencia de Manila
|
| partOf |
Spanish colonial administration in the Philippines
ⓘ
imperial governance of the Spanish East Indies ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Supreme Court of the Philippines ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
establishment of Spanish judicial system in the Philippines
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integration of Philippine affairs into the Council of the Indies ⓘ transition to American colonial judiciary ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Council of the Indies
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King of Spain ⓘ |
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: Real Audiencia of Manila Description of subject: The Real Audiencia of Manila was the highest Spanish colonial court and governing body in the Philippines, overseeing judicial and administrative affairs under the authority of the Spanish Crown.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Oidore of the Real Audiencia of Manila
this entity surface form:
Real Audiencia de Manila
this entity surface form:
Audiencia of Manila