Early Modern Spanish
E383156
Early Modern Spanish is the historical stage of the Spanish language, roughly spanning the 15th to 17th centuries, during which its grammar, vocabulary, and orthography evolved into forms close to contemporary Spanish.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Early Modern Spanish canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3719402 — 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: Early Modern Spanish Context triple: [Old Spanish, followedBy, Early Modern Spanish]
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A.
Old Spanish
Old Spanish is the historical form of the Spanish language spoken in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, from which modern Spanish and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) evolved.
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B.
Modern Spanish
Modern Spanish is the contemporary standardized form of the Spanish language, widely spoken across Spain and Latin America and serving as one of the world’s major global languages.
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C.
Spanish Renaissance
The Spanish Renaissance was a cultural and artistic flowering in Spain, roughly spanning the 15th to early 17th centuries, marked by the fusion of Italian Renaissance humanism with distinct Iberian religious and imperial themes in art, literature, and architecture.
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D.
Spanish Golden Age
The Spanish Golden Age was a flourishing period of cultural, artistic, and literary achievement in Spain, spanning roughly the 16th and 17th centuries.
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E.
Gothic period in Spain
The Gothic period in Spain was a medieval artistic and architectural era marked by soaring cathedrals, pointed arches, and elaborate stonework that flourished before the advent of the Spanish Renaissance.
- 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: Early Modern Spanish Target entity description: Early Modern Spanish is the historical stage of the Spanish language, roughly spanning the 15th to 17th centuries, during which its grammar, vocabulary, and orthography evolved into forms close to contemporary Spanish.
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A.
Old Spanish
Old Spanish is the historical form of the Spanish language spoken in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, from which modern Spanish and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) evolved.
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B.
Modern Spanish
Modern Spanish is the contemporary standardized form of the Spanish language, widely spoken across Spain and Latin America and serving as one of the world’s major global languages.
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C.
Spanish Renaissance
The Spanish Renaissance was a cultural and artistic flowering in Spain, roughly spanning the 15th to early 17th centuries, marked by the fusion of Italian Renaissance humanism with distinct Iberian religious and imperial themes in art, literature, and architecture.
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D.
Spanish Golden Age
The Spanish Golden Age was a flourishing period of cultural, artistic, and literary achievement in Spain, spanning roughly the 16th and 17th centuries.
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E.
Gothic period in Spain
The Gothic period in Spain was a medieval artistic and architectural era marked by soaring cathedrals, pointed arches, and elaborate stonework that flourished before the advent of the Spanish Renaissance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical stage of a language
ⓘ
stage of the Spanish language ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Old Spanish ⓘ |
| developedInto | Modern Spanish ⓘ |
| endTime | 17th century ⓘ |
| follows | Old Spanish ⓘ |
| grammaticalChange |
decline of synthetic future subjunctive
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increasing use of periphrastic verb forms ⓘ stabilization of definite and indefinite articles ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
borrowings from Arabic
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borrowings from indigenous American languages ⓘ development of seseo and distinction patterns ⓘ emergence of leísmo in some dialects ⓘ greater Latin and Italian lexical influence ⓘ increased use of prepositions instead of case-like constructions ⓘ loss of voiced sibilants ⓘ reduction of consonant clusters ⓘ stabilization of verb conjugation paradigms ⓘ standardization of orthography ⓘ transition from Old Spanish phonology to modern phonology ⓘ variation in second-person plural forms vosotros and ustedes ⓘ variation in use of subject pronouns vos and tú ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Spanish Golden Age
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surface form:
Golden Age Spanish
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| influenced | colonial Spanish in the Americas ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Romance languages ⓘ |
| notableWorkIn |
Don Quixote
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Fuenteovejuna ⓘ La Celestina ⓘ Lazarillo de Tormes ⓘ |
| orthographicChange |
gradual replacement of x with j for /x/
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progressive elimination of many silent letters ⓘ use of ç and z for different sibilant sounds ⓘ variable use of b and v ⓘ |
| partOf | history of the Spanish language ⓘ |
| precedes | Modern Spanish ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | Royal Spanish Academy ⓘ |
| regulationStartApprox | early 18th century influence on late Early Modern usage ⓘ |
| startTime | 15th century ⓘ |
| subfamily | Ibero-Romance languages ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Age of Exploration
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surface form:
Age of Discovery
Spanish Golden Age ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Francisco de Quevedo
ⓘ
Luis de León ⓘ
surface form:
Fray Luis de León
Garcilaso de la Vega ⓘ Lope de Vega ⓘ Luis de Góngora ⓘ Miguel de Cervantes ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Castile
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surface form:
Kingdom of Castile
Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Early Modern Spanish Description of subject: Early Modern Spanish is the historical stage of the Spanish language, roughly spanning the 15th to 17th centuries, during which its grammar, vocabulary, and orthography evolved into forms close to contemporary Spanish.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.