Ruiz de Apodaca
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Ruiz de Apodaca is a Spanish surname most notably borne by Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, a high-ranking colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ruiz de Apodaca canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2183423 — 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: Ruiz de Apodaca Context triple: [Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, familyName, Ruiz de Apodaca]
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A.
Joaquín de la Pezuela
Joaquín de la Pezuela was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator who served as Viceroy of Peru and led royalist forces against independence movements in South America.
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B.
José Toral y Velázquez
José Toral y Velázquez was a Spanish general best known for leading Spanish forces in the defense of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.
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C.
Ignacio de la Carrera
Ignacio de la Carrera was a Chilean patriot and politician who played a key role in the country’s early independence movement as part of its first national governing body.
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D.
Félix María Calleja
Félix María Calleja was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain known for leading harsh royalist campaigns to suppress the Mexican War of Independence.
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E.
Pérez de Guzmán
Pérez de Guzmán is a prominent Spanish noble family name historically associated with the powerful Dukes of Medina Sidonia.
- 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: Ruiz de Apodaca Target entity description: Ruiz de Apodaca is a Spanish surname most notably borne by Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, a high-ranking colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain in the early 19th century.
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A.
Joaquín de la Pezuela
Joaquín de la Pezuela was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator who served as Viceroy of Peru and led royalist forces against independence movements in South America.
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B.
José Toral y Velázquez
José Toral y Velázquez was a Spanish general best known for leading Spanish forces in the defense of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.
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C.
Ignacio de la Carrera
Ignacio de la Carrera was a Chilean patriot and politician who played a key role in the country’s early independence movement as part of its first national governing body.
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D.
Félix María Calleja
Félix María Calleja was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain known for leading harsh royalist campaigns to suppress the Mexican War of Independence.
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E.
Pérez de Guzmán
Pérez de Guzmán is a prominent Spanish noble family name historically associated with the powerful Dukes of Medina Sidonia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| conflict | Mexican War of Independence ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| employer |
Crown of Spain
ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish Crown
|
| ethnicGroup | Spanish ⓘ |
| familyName | Ruiz de Apodaca self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
colonial administration
ⓘ
naval warfare ⓘ |
| genre | colonial governance ⓘ |
| givenName | Juan ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Juan Ruiz de Apodaca ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Spanish Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | admiral ⓘ |
| monarchServed | Ferdinand VII of Spain ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | 1st Count of Venadito ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as viceroy during the Mexican War of Independence ⓘ |
| notableWork | administration of New Spain in the early 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonial administrator
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| partOf | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Viceroy of New Spain ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Mexico City
ⓘ
Spain ⓘ |
| territoryGoverned |
Viceroyalty of New Spain
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surface form:
New Spain
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| usedBy | Spanish people ⓘ |
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: Ruiz de Apodaca Description of subject: Ruiz de Apodaca is a Spanish surname most notably borne by Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, a high-ranking colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Juan Ruiz de Apodaca