Valeriano Weyler
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Valeriano Weyler was a Spanish general and colonial administrator notorious for his brutal reconcentration policies in Cuba during the late 19th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Valeriano Weyler canonical | 7 |
| Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau | 2 |
| General Valeriano Weyler | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T358110 — 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: Valeriano Weyler Context triple: [Cuban War of Independence, keyFigure, Valeriano Weyler]
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A.
Emilio Mola
Emilio Mola was a Spanish Nationalist general and key architect of the military uprising that triggered the Spanish Civil War.
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B.
Pascual Cervera y Topete
Pascual Cervera y Topete was a Spanish admiral best known for leading Spain’s ill-fated Caribbean squadron during the Spanish–American War, culminating in its destruction at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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C.
José Gregorio Argomedo
José Gregorio Argomedo was a Chilean lawyer and politician who played a significant role in the country’s early independence movement as a member of its first governing junta.
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D.
Antonio de Villarroel
Antonio de Villarroel was a Spanish military commander best known for leading the defense of Barcelona during the final stages of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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E.
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.
- 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: Valeriano Weyler Target entity description: Valeriano Weyler was a Spanish general and colonial administrator notorious for his brutal reconcentration policies in Cuba during the late 19th century.
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A.
Emilio Mola
Emilio Mola was a Spanish Nationalist general and key architect of the military uprising that triggered the Spanish Civil War.
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B.
Pascual Cervera y Topete
Pascual Cervera y Topete was a Spanish admiral best known for leading Spain’s ill-fated Caribbean squadron during the Spanish–American War, culminating in its destruction at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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C.
José Gregorio Argomedo
José Gregorio Argomedo was a Chilean lawyer and politician who played a significant role in the country’s early independence movement as a member of its first governing junta.
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D.
Antonio de Villarroel
Antonio de Villarroel was a Spanish military commander best known for leading the defense of Barcelona during the final stages of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Valeriano Weyler Description of subject: Valeriano Weyler was a Spanish general and colonial administrator notorious for his brutal reconcentration policies in Cuba during the late 19th century.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau
this entity surface form:
General Valeriano Weyler
this entity surface form:
Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau