Don Diego Vega
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Don Diego Vega is the secret identity of Zorro, a masked vigilante nobleman who defends the oppressed in early 19th-century California.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Diego Vega canonical | 6 |
| Don Diego de la Vega | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T711285 — 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: Don Diego Vega Context triple: [The Curse of Capistrano, mainCharacter, Don Diego Vega]
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A.
Joaquín Toesca
Joaquín Toesca was an 18th-century Italian-born architect who became a key figure in Chilean neoclassical architecture.
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B.
Gabriel Valencia
Gabriel Valencia was a 19th-century Mexican general and political figure who played a significant role in Mexico’s military and governmental affairs, including during the Mexican–American War.
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C.
Raúl
Raúl is a masculine given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries.
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D.
Adrian Balboa
Adrian Balboa is a central character in the Rocky film series, known as Rocky Balboa’s devoted wife and emotional anchor throughout his boxing career.
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E.
Bernardo Yorba
Bernardo Yorba was a prominent 19th-century Californio ranchero and landowner whose extensive holdings and influence in Southern California led to places like Yorba Linda being named in his honor.
- 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: Don Diego Vega Target entity description: Don Diego Vega is the secret identity of Zorro, a masked vigilante nobleman who defends the oppressed in early 19th-century California.
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A.
Joaquín Toesca
Joaquín Toesca was an 18th-century Italian-born architect who became a key figure in Chilean neoclassical architecture.
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B.
Gabriel Valencia
Gabriel Valencia was a 19th-century Mexican general and political figure who played a significant role in Mexico’s military and governmental affairs, including during the Mexican–American War.
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C.
Raúl
Raúl is a masculine given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries.
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D.
Adrian Balboa
Adrian Balboa is a central character in the Rocky film series, known as Rocky Balboa’s devoted wife and emotional anchor throughout his boxing career.
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E.
Bernardo Yorba
Bernardo Yorba was a prominent 19th-century Californio ranchero and landowner whose extensive holdings and influence in Southern California led to places like Yorba Linda being named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alter ego
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ secret identity ⓘ |
| alignment | hero ⓘ |
| alterEgoOf | Zorro ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
comic books
ⓘ
films ⓘ pulp magazines ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Spanish missions in California
ⓘ
surface form:
California missions
Spanish colonial government ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Alta California (Spanish colony)
ⓘ
surface form:
Alta California
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Alta California (Spanish colony)
ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish California
|
| createdBy | Johnston McCulley ⓘ |
| familyName | Vega ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Zorro
ⓘ
surface form:
Zorro franchise
|
| fightsAgainst |
corrupt officials
ⓘ
tyrannical military officers ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | The Curse of Capistrano ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1919 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
swashbuckler fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Diego ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Zorro
ⓘ
surface form:
Señor Zorro
|
| inspired | later masked heroes in popular culture ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | Spanish ⓘ |
| nationality |
Mexican Alta California
ⓘ
surface form:
Californio
|
| notableFor | defending the oppressed ⓘ |
| occupation |
nobleman
ⓘ
vigilante ⓘ |
| parentalBackground | son of a wealthy landowner ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | foppish aristocrat in public ⓘ |
| realNameOf | Zorro ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| role | masked vigilante ⓘ |
| secretIdentityOf | Zorro ⓘ |
| signatureSymbol | the letter Z ⓘ |
| socialClass |
aristocracy
ⓘ
hidalgo ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| weapon | rapier ⓘ |
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: Don Diego Vega Description of subject: Don Diego Vega is the secret identity of Zorro, a masked vigilante nobleman who defends the oppressed in early 19th-century California.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Mark of Zorro (1940 film)