Catastro de Ensenada
E562217
Spanish administrative reform project
fiscal cadastre
historical document
land and population survey
The Catastro de Ensenada was an 18th-century Spanish land and population survey that systematically recorded economic and fiscal data across much of the kingdom to reform taxation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Catastro de Ensenada canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6020190 — 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: Catastro de Ensenada Context triple: [Zenón de Somodevilla, Marqués de la Ensenada, knownFor, Catastro de Ensenada]
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A.
El Tor
El Tor is a biotype of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae responsible for the current seventh pandemic of cholera, characterized by greater environmental persistence and often milder disease than the classical biotype.
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B.
El Tor
El Tor is a coastal town on the Gulf of Suez that serves as the capital of Egypt’s South Sinai Governorate.
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C.
Huasco
Huasco is a coastal town and commune in northern Chile known for its port activities and proximity to the Atacama Desert.
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D.
Port of Coronel
The Port of Coronel is a major Chilean seaport on the Pacific coast that serves as a key hub for regional trade and forestry exports.
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E.
1986 San Salvador earthquake
The 1986 San Salvador earthquake was a devastating magnitude 5.7 tremor that struck El Salvador’s capital region on October 10, 1986, causing widespread destruction and significant loss of life.
- 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: Catastro de Ensenada Target entity description: The Catastro de Ensenada was an 18th-century Spanish land and population survey that systematically recorded economic and fiscal data across much of the kingdom to reform taxation.
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A.
El Tor
El Tor is a biotype of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae responsible for the current seventh pandemic of cholera, characterized by greater environmental persistence and often milder disease than the classical biotype.
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B.
El Tor
El Tor is a coastal town on the Gulf of Suez that serves as the capital of Egypt’s South Sinai Governorate.
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C.
Huasco
Huasco is a coastal town and commune in northern Chile known for its port activities and proximity to the Atacama Desert.
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D.
Port of Coronel
The Port of Coronel is a major Chilean seaport on the Pacific coast that serves as a key hub for regional trade and forestry exports.
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E.
1986 San Salvador earthquake
The 1986 San Salvador earthquake was a devastating magnitude 5.7 tremor that struck El Salvador’s capital region on October 10, 1986, causing widespread destruction and significant loss of life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish administrative reform project
ⓘ
fiscal cadastre ⓘ historical document ⓘ land and population survey ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Crown of Castile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| archivesAt |
Archivo General de Simancas
NERFINISHED
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provincial archives in Spain ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Ferdinand VI of Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| dataFormat | manuscript volumes ⓘ |
| endTime | 1756 ⓘ |
| excludes |
Basque provinces
ⓘ
Crown of Aragon territories NERFINISHED ⓘ Navarre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | earlier local cadastres and tax registers in Spain ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Libros de Cabeza de Casa
ⓘ
Libros de Hacienda NERFINISHED ⓘ Libros de lo Real ⓘ Respuestas Generales ⓘ Respuestas Particulares ⓘ |
| hasScale | kingdom-wide survey (Crown of Castile) ⓘ |
| implementedBy |
local councils
ⓘ
parish priests ⓘ royal officials ⓘ |
| inception | 1749 ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| location |
Andalusia (Crown of Castile territories)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Castile NERFINISHED ⓘ Extremadura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
economic activity
ⓘ
land ownership ⓘ population ⓘ taxation ⓘ |
| methodUsed | standardized questionnaire of 40 questions ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Zenón de Somodevilla y Bengoechea, Marqués de la Ensenada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
creation of a single tax (única contribución)
ⓘ
fiscal equalization ⓘ tax reform ⓘ |
| records |
land tenure
ⓘ
livestock ⓘ local industries ⓘ occupations ⓘ population by household ⓘ property values ⓘ tithes and seigneurial dues ⓘ |
| significance |
major source for agrarian and economic history of Spain
ⓘ
major source for demographic history of 18th-century Spain ⓘ |
| startTime | 1749 ⓘ |
| supervisedBy | Zenón de Somodevilla y Bengoechea, Marqués de la Ensenada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
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: Catastro de Ensenada Description of subject: The Catastro de Ensenada was an 18th-century Spanish land and population survey that systematically recorded economic and fiscal data across much of the kingdom to reform taxation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.