Viceroy of New Spain
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The Viceroy of New Spain was the Spanish Crown’s highest colonial official in North America, governing vast territories including present-day Mexico and parts of the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Viceroy of New Spain canonical | 22 |
| Virrey de la Nueva España | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T601562 — 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: Viceroy of New Spain Context triple: [Viceroyalty of New Spain, headOfGovernment, Viceroy of New Spain]
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A.
Captain General of New Spain
The Captain General of New Spain was the highest military and often de facto political authority in the early Spanish colonial administration of Mexico, a role famously held by conquistador Hernán Cortés.
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B.
Viceroy of the Río de la Plata
The Viceroy of the Río de la Plata was the Spanish Crown’s highest colonial official in the southern regions of South America, overseeing administration, justice, and defense in the viceroyalty.
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C.
Governor of Las Californias
The Governor of Las Californias was the chief Spanish colonial official overseeing civil and military administration in the vast province that once encompassed present-day California and Baja California.
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D.
Viceroy of Naples
The Viceroy of Naples was the Spanish Crown’s chief royal representative and governor in the Kingdom of Naples during the early modern period, wielding extensive political, military, and administrative authority.
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E.
Adelantado of Florida
Adelantado of Florida was a Spanish royal title granting Juan Ponce de León authority to conquer, govern, and colonize the region of Florida in the early 16th century.
- 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: Viceroy of New Spain Target entity description: The Viceroy of New Spain was the Spanish Crown’s highest colonial official in North America, governing vast territories including present-day Mexico and parts of the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean.
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A.
Captain General of New Spain
The Captain General of New Spain was the highest military and often de facto political authority in the early Spanish colonial administration of Mexico, a role famously held by conquistador Hernán Cortés.
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B.
Viceroy of the Río de la Plata
The Viceroy of the Río de la Plata was the Spanish Crown’s highest colonial official in the southern regions of South America, overseeing administration, justice, and defense in the viceroyalty.
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C.
Governor of Las Californias
The Governor of Las Californias was the chief Spanish colonial official overseeing civil and military administration in the vast province that once encompassed present-day California and Baja California.
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D.
Viceroy of Naples
The Viceroy of Naples was the Spanish Crown’s chief royal representative and governor in the Kingdom of Naples during the early modern period, wielding extensive political, military, and administrative authority.
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E.
Adelantado of Florida
Adelantado of Florida was a Spanish royal title granting Juan Ponce de León authority to conquer, govern, and colonize the region of Florida in the early 16th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Viceroy of New Spain Description of subject: The Viceroy of New Spain was the Spanish Crown’s highest colonial official in North America, governing vast territories including present-day Mexico and parts of the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Virrey de la Nueva España