Universalis Cosmographia
E382760
Universalis Cosmographia is a famous 1507 world map by Martin Waldseemüller, notable as the first known map to use the name "America" for the New World.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3716391 — 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: Universalis Cosmographia Context triple: [Martin Waldseemüller, notableWork, Universalis Cosmographia]
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is a pioneering 16th-century world atlas by Abraham Ortelius, often regarded as the first modern atlas for systematically compiling uniform maps of the known world.
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Ortelius’s Parergon
Ortelius’s Parergon is a celebrated series of historical and thematic maps by Abraham Ortelius, often published as a supplement to his pioneering world atlas.
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C.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula (world map)
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula is a richly decorated 17th-century world map renowned as one of the masterpieces of Dutch Golden Age cartography.
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Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana
Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana is a monumental 17th-century world atlas by Joan Blaeu, renowned for its richly detailed maps and lavish baroque cartography.
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E.
Sidereus Nuncius
Sidereus Nuncius is Galileo Galilei’s groundbreaking 1610 treatise that first reported telescopic observations of the Moon, stars, and Jupiter’s moons, revolutionizing astronomy and supporting the Copernican system.
- 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: Universalis Cosmographia Target entity description: Universalis Cosmographia is a famous 1507 world map by Martin Waldseemüller, notable as the first known map to use the name "America" for the New World.
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A.
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is a pioneering 16th-century world atlas by Abraham Ortelius, often regarded as the first modern atlas for systematically compiling uniform maps of the known world.
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B.
Ortelius’s Parergon
Ortelius’s Parergon is a celebrated series of historical and thematic maps by Abraham Ortelius, often published as a supplement to his pioneering world atlas.
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C.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula (world map)
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula is a richly decorated 17th-century world map renowned as one of the masterpieces of Dutch Golden Age cartography.
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D.
Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana
Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana is a monumental 17th-century world atlas by Joan Blaeu, renowned for its richly detailed maps and lavish baroque cartography.
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E.
Sidereus Nuncius
Sidereus Nuncius is Galileo Galilei’s groundbreaking 1610 treatise that first reported telescopic observations of the Moon, stars, and Jupiter’s moons, revolutionizing astronomy and supporting the Copernican system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Universalis Cosmographia Description of subject: Universalis Cosmographia is a famous 1507 world map by Martin Waldseemüller, notable as the first known map to use the name "America" for the New World.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Universalis Cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes
subject surface form:
Martin Waldseemüller
subject surface form:
Martin Waldseemüller
this entity surface form:
Universalis Cosmographia world map of 1507