Tomás de Torquemada
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Tomás de Torquemada was a 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar infamous for his leading role in the Spanish Inquisition and his harsh persecution of Jews, Muslims, and alleged heretics.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Torquemada | 3 |
| Inquisitor General of Spain | 2 |
| Inquisitor General of Castile and Aragon | 1 |
| Tomás de Torquemada canonical | 1 |
| Torquemada, Crown of Castile | 1 |
| de Torquemada | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3159795 — 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.
Target entity: Tomás de Torquemada Context triple: [Grand Inquisitor, notableOfficeHolder, Tomás de Torquemada]
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Juan Gómez de Mora
Juan Gómez de Mora was a prominent early 17th-century Spanish architect known for shaping Madrid’s Baroque urban landscape, including several of its most emblematic civic and religious buildings.
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B.
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros was a powerful Spanish cardinal, statesman, and religious reformer of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known for his role in church reform, the conquest of Granada, and the promotion of humanist scholarship such as the Complutensian Polyglot Bible.
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Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros was a Spanish naval officer and colonial administrator who served as the last viceroy of the Río de la Plata before being deposed during the May Revolution of 1810.
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D.
Álvaro de Luna
Álvaro de Luna was a powerful 15th-century Castilian nobleman and statesman who effectively ruled Castile for much of John II’s reign as his chief minister and favorite.
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E.
Bernardo de Albornoz
Bernardo de Albornoz was a Spanish colonial-era figure known for establishing the town of Ubaté in present-day Colombia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Tomás de Torquemada Target entity description: Tomás de Torquemada was a 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar infamous for his leading role in the Spanish Inquisition and his harsh persecution of Jews, Muslims, and alleged heretics.
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A.
Juan Gómez de Mora
Juan Gómez de Mora was a prominent early 17th-century Spanish architect known for shaping Madrid’s Baroque urban landscape, including several of its most emblematic civic and religious buildings.
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B.
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros was a powerful Spanish cardinal, statesman, and religious reformer of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known for his role in church reform, the conquest of Granada, and the promotion of humanist scholarship such as the Complutensian Polyglot Bible.
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C.
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros was a Spanish naval officer and colonial administrator who served as the last viceroy of the Río de la Plata before being deposed during the May Revolution of 1810.
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D.
Álvaro de Luna
Álvaro de Luna was a powerful 15th-century Castilian nobleman and statesman who effectively ruled Castile for much of John II’s reign as his chief minister and favorite.
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E.
Bernardo de Albornoz
Bernardo de Albornoz was a Spanish colonial-era figure known for establishing the town of Ubaté in present-day Colombia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dominican friar
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Roman Catholic priest ⓘ Spanish person ⓘ historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ inquisitor ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Ferdinand II of Aragon
ⓘ
Isabella I of Castile ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Crown of Castile
ⓘ
Valladolid ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1420 ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Royal Monastery of Saint Thomas, Ávila
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surface form:
Monastery of Saint Thomas in Ávila
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| centuryOfActivity | 15th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Crown of Castile ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1498-09-16 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Crown of Castile
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Ávila ⓘ |
| endTime | 1498 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spanish ⓘ |
| familyName |
Tomás de Torquemada
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
de Torquemada
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| givenName |
Tomas
ⓘ
surface form:
Tomás
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| hasReputation |
symbol of religious intolerance
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symbol of the excesses of the Inquisition ⓘ |
| influenced | implementation of the Spanish Inquisition ⓘ |
| knownFor |
autos-da-fé
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fanatical religious zeal ⓘ severity of punishments ⓘ use of torture in inquisitorial procedures ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Order of Preachers ⓘ |
| monasticVows |
chastity
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obedience ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading role in the Spanish Inquisition
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persecution of Jews ⓘ persecution of Muslims ⓘ persecution of alleged heretics ⓘ persecution of conversos ⓘ |
| occupation |
Dominican friar
ⓘ
inquisitor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Grand Inquisitor
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surface form:
Grand Inquisitor of Spain
Tomás de Torquemada self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Inquisitor General of Castile and Aragon
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| relative |
Cardinal Juan de Torquemada
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surface form:
Juan de Torquemada
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| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| religiousOrder |
Dominican friars
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surface form:
Dominican Order
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| startTime | 1483 ⓘ |
| supported |
Spanish Expulsion of 1492
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surface form:
Alhambra Decree
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| workLocation |
Aragon
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Castile ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Tomás de Torquemada Description of subject: Tomás de Torquemada was a 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar infamous for his leading role in the Spanish Inquisition and his harsh persecution of Jews, Muslims, and alleged heretics.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.