de Vitoria
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de Vitoria is the surname of Francisco de Vitoria, a 16th-century Spanish theologian and jurist regarded as a founder of modern international law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| de Vitoria canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2203907 — 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: de Vitoria Context triple: [Francisco de Vitoria, familyName, de Vitoria]
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A.
Cervera
Cervera is a Spanish surname historically associated with notable figures such as Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete.
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B.
La Vera
La Vera is a picturesque comarca in northern Extremadura, Spain, known for its lush landscapes, traditional villages, and production of smoked paprika (pimentón).
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C.
Rivas
Rivas is a city in southwestern Nicaragua known as a regional commercial center and gateway between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific coast.
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D.
Vegueta
Vegueta is the historic old quarter of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, known for its colonial architecture, cobbled streets, and cultural landmarks.
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E.
Aranjuez
Aranjuez is a historic town in central Spain renowned for its royal palace, extensive gardens, and cultural heritage, and is located within the Community of Madrid.
- 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: de Vitoria Target entity description: de Vitoria is the surname of Francisco de Vitoria, a 16th-century Spanish theologian and jurist regarded as a founder of modern international law.
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A.
Cervera
Cervera is a Spanish surname historically associated with notable figures such as Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete.
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B.
La Vera
La Vera is a picturesque comarca in northern Extremadura, Spain, known for its lush landscapes, traditional villages, and production of smoked paprika (pimentón).
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C.
Rivas
Rivas is a city in southwestern Nicaragua known as a regional commercial center and gateway between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific coast.
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D.
Vegueta
Vegueta is the historic old quarter of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, known for its colonial architecture, cobbled streets, and cultural landmarks.
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E.
Aranjuez
Aranjuez is a historic town in central Spain renowned for its royal palace, extensive gardens, and cultural heritage, and is located within the Community of Madrid.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dominican friar
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Roman Catholic priest ⓘ founder of modern international law ⓘ human ⓘ jurist ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Catholic moral theology
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European legal thought ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Sorbonne University
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surface form:
University of Paris
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| employer | University of Salamanca ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spanish ⓘ |
| familyName | de Vitoria self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
international law
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law ⓘ moral theology ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| givenName | Francisco ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | founder of modern international law ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of modern international law
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human rights theory ⓘ later natural law theorists ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Latin
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Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Order of Preachers ⓘ |
| movement | School of Salamanca ⓘ |
| name | Francisco de Vitoria ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
critique of Spanish conquest practices in the New World
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defense of the rights of indigenous peoples ⓘ early formulation of international law based on natural law ⓘ limitations on just war ⓘ |
| notableWork |
lectures on the law of war
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lectures on the rights of the Indians ⓘ |
| occupation |
jurist
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theologian ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Spain ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chair of theology at the University of Salamanca ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
|
| workLocation | Salamanca ⓘ |
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: de Vitoria Description of subject: de Vitoria is the surname of Francisco de Vitoria, a 16th-century Spanish theologian and jurist regarded as a founder of modern international law.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Francisco de Vitoria