José de Bobadilla
E598308
José de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial official and governor active in the early 18th century, known for his administrative role in the Americas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| José de Bobadilla canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6454308 — 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: José de Bobadilla Context triple: [Bobadilla, hasNotableBearer, José de Bobadilla]
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A.
Francisco de Bobadilla
Francisco de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial administrator and royal commissioner best known for arresting Christopher Columbus and briefly serving as governor of Hispaniola in the early 16th century.
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B.
Andrés de Bobadilla
Andrés de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial official who served as governor of Cuba in the early 16th century.
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C.
Francisco de Montejo the Nephew
Francisco de Montejo the Nephew was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador who played a leading role in the military campaigns that subjugated the Maya peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula.
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D.
Francisco de Montejo the Elder
Francisco de Montejo the Elder was a Spanish conquistador best known for leading the protracted and brutal campaign to conquer the Yucatán Peninsula in the early 16th century.
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E.
Vasco de Quiroga
Vasco de Quiroga was a 16th-century Spanish bishop and humanist known for his efforts to protect and educate Indigenous peoples in colonial Mexico.
- 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: José de Bobadilla Target entity description: José de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial official and governor active in the early 18th century, known for his administrative role in the Americas.
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A.
Francisco de Bobadilla
Francisco de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial administrator and royal commissioner best known for arresting Christopher Columbus and briefly serving as governor of Hispaniola in the early 16th century.
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B.
Andrés de Bobadilla
Andrés de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial official who served as governor of Cuba in the early 16th century.
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C.
Francisco de Montejo the Nephew
Francisco de Montejo the Nephew was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador who played a leading role in the military campaigns that subjugated the Maya peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula.
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D.
Francisco de Montejo the Elder
Francisco de Montejo the Elder was a Spanish conquistador best known for leading the protracted and brutal campaign to conquer the Yucatán Peninsula in the early 16th century.
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E.
Vasco de Quiroga
Vasco de Quiroga was a 16th-century Spanish bishop and humanist known for his efforts to protect and educate Indigenous peoples in colonial Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish colonial official
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human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 18th century ⓘ |
| continentOfActivity | Americas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spanish ⓘ |
| notableFor | administrative role in the Americas ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonial administrator
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government official ⓘ |
| positionHeld | colonial governor ⓘ |
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: José de Bobadilla Description of subject: José de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial official and governor active in the early 18th century, known for his administrative role in the Americas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.