Portolá
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Portolá is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Gaspar de Portolá, the 18th-century explorer and first Spanish governor of Alta California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Portolá canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6392655 — 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: Portolá Context triple: [Gaspar de Portolá, familyName, Portolá]
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Colón
Colón is a major Panamanian port city on the Caribbean coast, known as a key gateway to the Panama Canal and an important center for trade and shipping.
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Colón
Colón is a municipality and city in western Cuba known for its agricultural surroundings and colonial-era architecture.
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C.
Argüelles
Argüelles is a Madrid Metro station serving the Argüelles neighborhood, providing an interchange between several central metro lines.
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San Policarpo
San Policarpo is a coastal municipality in the province of Eastern Samar in the Philippines, known for its fishing communities and exposure to Pacific typhoons.
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E.
Cervera
Cervera is a Spanish surname historically associated with notable figures such as Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete.
- 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: Portolá Target entity description: Portolá is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Gaspar de Portolá, the 18th-century explorer and first Spanish governor of Alta California.
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A.
Colón
Colón is a major Panamanian port city on the Caribbean coast, known as a key gateway to the Panama Canal and an important center for trade and shipping.
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B.
Colón
Colón is a municipality and city in western Cuba known for its agricultural surroundings and colonial-era architecture.
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C.
Argüelles
Argüelles is a Madrid Metro station serving the Argüelles neighborhood, providing an interchange between several central metro lines.
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D.
San Policarpo
San Policarpo is a coastal municipality in the province of Eastern Samar in the Philippines, known for its fishing communities and exposure to Pacific typhoons.
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E.
Cervera
Cervera is a Spanish surname historically associated with notable figures such as Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish-language surname
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exploration expedition ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| destination | Alta California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Spanish Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Catalan ⓘ |
| familyName | Portolá NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Gaspar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Gaspar de Portolà (Catalan) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Gaspar de Portolá NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableToponym |
Portola Drive (San Francisco)
NERFINISHED
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Portola Hills, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Portola Parkway NERFINISHED ⓘ Portola Valley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Portola, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Portola
NERFINISHED
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Portolà NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Spanish ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Gaspar de Portolá
NERFINISHED
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Gaspar de Portolá NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaspar de Portolá NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaspar de Portolá NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaspar de Portolá NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaspar de Portolá NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage |
Catalan
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Spanish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Portolá expedition
NERFINISHED
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exploration of Alta California ⓘ first recorded European land entry into San Francisco Bay ⓘ overland expedition to San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonial administrator
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explorer ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Portolá expedition
NERFINISHED
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Spanish colonization of the Americas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Las Californias
NERFINISHED
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first Spanish governor of Alta California ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Catalonia
NERFINISHED
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Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Portolá Description of subject: Portolá is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Gaspar de Portolá, the 18th-century explorer and first Spanish governor of Alta California.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.