Spínola
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Portuguese military officer
Portuguese-language surname
human
military coup
politician
revolution
surname
Spínola is a Portuguese surname most prominently associated with António de Spínola, a key military figure and political leader during Portugal’s Carnation Revolution.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T619566 — 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: Spínola Context triple: [António de Spínola, familyName, Spínola]
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Barra
Barra is a scenic island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, Gaelic culture, and the unique beach runway at Barra Airport.
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B.
Barra
Barra is the surname of Mary Barra, the prominent American business executive and CEO of General Motors.
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C.
Castro Marim
Castro Marim is a town and municipality in Portugal’s Algarve region, near the Spanish border, known for its historic castle and salt marshes.
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Boyeros
Boyeros is a municipality in Havana, Cuba, known for hosting the country’s main international gateway, José Martí International Airport.
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E.
Serrano
Serrano are an Indigenous people of Southern California traditionally inhabiting the San Bernardino Mountains and surrounding desert regions.
- 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: Spínola Target entity description: Spínola is a Portuguese surname most prominently associated with António de Spínola, a key military figure and political leader during Portugal’s Carnation Revolution.
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A.
Barra
Barra is a scenic island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, Gaelic culture, and the unique beach runway at Barra Airport.
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B.
Barra
Barra is the surname of Mary Barra, the prominent American business executive and CEO of General Motors.
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C.
Castro Marim
Castro Marim is a town and municipality in Portugal’s Algarve region, near the Spanish border, known for its historic castle and salt marshes.
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D.
Boyeros
Boyeros is a municipality in Havana, Cuba, known for hosting the country’s main international gateway, José Martí International Airport.
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E.
Serrano
Serrano are an Indigenous people of Southern California traditionally inhabiting the San Bernardino Mountains and surrounding desert regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese military officer
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Portuguese-language surname ⓘ human ⓘ military coup ⓘ politician ⓘ revolution ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| country | Portugal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Portugal ⓘ |
| familyName | Spínola self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure | António de Spínola ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | António de Spínola ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Spínola
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Spinola
|
| languageOfOrigin | Portuguese ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the Carnation Revolution ⓘ |
| notableWork | Portugal e o Futuro ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Carnation Revolution
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Portuguese Colonial War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Portugal ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
key military figure in the Carnation Revolution
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political leader during the Carnation Revolution ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Portugal ⓘ |
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: Spínola Description of subject: Spínola is a Portuguese surname most prominently associated with António de Spínola, a key military figure and political leader during Portugal’s Carnation Revolution.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Spinola
subject surface form:
António de Spínola
this entity surface form:
Spinola