Catalan diaspora
E48719
The Catalan diaspora comprises communities of Catalan people and their descendants living outside Catalonia who maintain and promote Catalan language, culture, and identity abroad.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catalan diaspora canonical | 1 |
| Catalan expatriate network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T383707 — 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: Catalan diaspora Context triple: [National Day of Catalonia, observedBy, Catalan diaspora]
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A.
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain with a distinct Catalan language and culture, a strong regional identity, and Barcelona as its capital.
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B.
Catalan
Catalan is a Romance language spoken primarily in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and parts of eastern Spain and southern France.
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C.
Institut d’Estudis Catalans
The Institut d’Estudis Catalans is the official academic institution responsible for researching, standardizing, and promoting the Catalan language and culture.
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D.
National Day of Catalonia
The National Day of Catalonia is an annual Catalan holiday on September 11 commemorating the fall of Barcelona in 1714 and symbolizing Catalonia’s struggle for self-government and national identity.
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E.
Nueva Planta decrees in Catalonia
The Nueva Planta decrees in Catalonia were a series of royal reforms issued by Philip V after the War of the Spanish Succession that abolished Catalan institutions and laws, centralizing political power under the Castilian model.
- 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: Catalan diaspora Target entity description: The Catalan diaspora comprises communities of Catalan people and their descendants living outside Catalonia who maintain and promote Catalan language, culture, and identity abroad.
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A.
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain with a distinct Catalan language and culture, a strong regional identity, and Barcelona as its capital.
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B.
Catalan
Catalan is a Romance language spoken primarily in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and parts of eastern Spain and southern France.
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C.
Institut d’Estudis Catalans
The Institut d’Estudis Catalans is the official academic institution responsible for researching, standardizing, and promoting the Catalan language and culture.
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D.
National Day of Catalonia
The National Day of Catalonia is an annual Catalan holiday on September 11 commemorating the fall of Barcelona in 1714 and symbolizing Catalonia’s struggle for self-government and national identity.
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E.
Nueva Planta decrees in Catalonia
The Nueva Planta decrees in Catalonia were a series of royal reforms issued by Philip V after the War of the Spanish Succession that abolished Catalan institutions and laws, centralizing political power under the Castilian model.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (103)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catalan people-related concept
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cultural community ⓘ diaspora ⓘ ethnic community ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture | Catalan culture ⓘ |
| associatedWithIdentity | Catalan identity ⓘ |
| associatedWithLanguage |
Catalan
ⓘ
surface form:
Catalan language
|
| associatedWithRegion | Catalonia ⓘ |
| composedOf |
Catalan emigrants
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descendants of Catalan emigrants ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
maintenance of Catalan identity abroad
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promotion of Catalan culture abroad ⓘ promotion of Catalan language abroad ⓘ |
| hasCommunityIn |
Andorra
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Argentina ⓘ Australia ⓘ Balearic Islands ⓘ Belgium ⓘ Berlin ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Brussels, Belgium ⓘ
surface form:
Brussels
Buenos Aires ⓘ Canada ⓘ Chile ⓘ Cuba ⓘ France ⓘ Geneva ⓘ Germany ⓘ Italy ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Madrid ⓘ Melbourne ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Mexico City ⓘ Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ
surface form:
Mexico’s Yucatán region
Netherlands ⓘ New York City ⓘ Paris ⓘ Santiago ⓘ
surface form:
Santiago de Chile
Spain outside Catalonia ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ Sydney ⓘ São Paulo ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Uruguay ⓘ Valencian Community ⓘ Venezuela ⓘ Zurich ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Catalonia ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | Catalan people ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
networking among Catalans abroad
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preservation of Catalan culture ⓘ preservation of Catalan language ⓘ representation of Catalan interests abroad ⓘ strengthening of Catalan identity ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalCause |
Francoist Spain
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surface form:
Francoist repression
academic mobility ⓘ civil war exile ⓘ economic migration ⓘ labor migration ⓘ political exile ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriodOfGrowth |
early 20th century
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early 21st century ⓘ late 19th century ⓘ late 20th century ⓘ post-Spanish Civil War period ⓘ |
| hasOrganizationType |
Casal Català
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Catalan association ⓘ Catalan business association ⓘ Catalan chamber of commerce ⓘ Catalan choir ⓘ Catalan cultural center ⓘ Catalan cultural federation ⓘ Catalan diaspora self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Catalan expatriate network
Catalan folk dance group ⓘ Catalan house ⓘ Catalan human tower group ⓘ Catalan language promotion group ⓘ Catalan language school ⓘ Catalan political association ⓘ Catalan sports club ⓘ Catalan student association ⓘ |
| maintainsTradition |
Human towers (castells)
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surface form:
Castells (human towers)
Catalan festivals abroad ⓘ Catalan gastronomy ⓘ Catalan literature promotion ⓘ National Day of Catalonia ⓘ
surface form:
Diada Nacional de Catalunya celebrations abroad
Sant Jordi celebrations abroad ⓘ sardana dance ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Catalan cultural policy
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Catalan independence movement ⓘ Catalan language revival ⓘ Catalan independence movement ⓘ
surface form:
Catalan nationalism
Spanish diaspora ⓘ expatriate community ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Catalan delegations abroad
ⓘ
Government of Catalonia ⓘ
surface form:
Catalan government
Government of Catalonia ⓘ
surface form:
Generalitat de Catalunya
Institut Ramon Llull ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
Catalan
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ local host-country languages ⓘ |
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: Catalan diaspora Description of subject: The Catalan diaspora comprises communities of Catalan people and their descendants living outside Catalonia who maintain and promote Catalan language, culture, and identity abroad.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Catalan expatriate network