Valladolid, New Spain
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Valladolid, New Spain was a prominent colonial city in central Mexico—now known as Morelia—recognized as an important political and cultural center during the Spanish colonial period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valladolid (colonial name of Morelia) | 1 |
| Valladolid, New Spain canonical | 1 |
| Valladolid, Viceroyalty of New Spain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2290737 — 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: Valladolid, New Spain Context triple: [Agustín de Iturbide, placeOfBirth, Valladolid, New Spain]
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A.
San Diego de Alcalá
San Diego de Alcalá is a 15th-century Spanish Franciscan friar and saint known for his humility, missionary work, and reported miracles, particularly of healing.
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B.
Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz
Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz was the first Spanish settlement on the mainland of the Americas, established on the Gulf Coast of present-day Mexico as a base for the conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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C.
Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz
Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz is a historic city in northeastern Argentina, serving as the capital of Santa Fe Province and an important river port and administrative center.
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D.
Santiago de Nueva Extremadura
Santiago de Nueva Extremadura was the original colonial name of Santiago, the capital city of Chile, established by the Spanish in the 16th century.
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E.
San Antonio de Palé
San Antonio de Palé is a small coastal town that serves as the administrative and population center of Annobón Island in Equatorial Guinea.
- 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: Valladolid, New Spain Target entity description: Valladolid, New Spain was a prominent colonial city in central Mexico—now known as Morelia—recognized as an important political and cultural center during the Spanish colonial period.
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A.
San Diego de Alcalá
San Diego de Alcalá is a 15th-century Spanish Franciscan friar and saint known for his humility, missionary work, and reported miracles, particularly of healing.
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B.
Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz
Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz was the first Spanish settlement on the mainland of the Americas, established on the Gulf Coast of present-day Mexico as a base for the conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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C.
Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz
Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz is a historic city in northeastern Argentina, serving as the capital of Santa Fe Province and an important river port and administrative center.
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D.
Santiago de Nueva Extremadura
Santiago de Nueva Extremadura was the original colonial name of Santiago, the capital city of Chile, established by the Spanish in the 16th century.
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E.
San Antonio de Palé
San Antonio de Palé is a small coastal town that serves as the administrative and population center of Annobón Island in Equatorial Guinea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial city
ⓘ
former populated place ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Spanish colonial architecture ⓘ |
| capitalOf |
Michoacán
ⓘ
surface form:
Province of Michoacán
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Viceroyalty of New Spain ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Spanish colonists ⓘ |
| governedBy | Spanish colonial authorities ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
center of colonial trade
ⓘ
seat of regional government ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
Catholic religious institutions
ⓘ
colonial educational institutions ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | City of Morelia ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Bajío and central-western Mexico ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
central Mexico
|
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Michoacán ⓘ |
| locatedInEcclesiasticalJurisdiction | Diocese of Michoacán ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | Spanish colonial period ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Valladolid, Spain ⓘ |
| nowKnownAs | Morelia ⓘ |
| partOf | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| presentDayLocation | Morelia ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| role |
cultural center
ⓘ
political center ⓘ |
| significance |
center of ecclesiastical authority
ⓘ
hub of colonial culture in Michoacán ⓘ regional administrative center ⓘ |
| usedCurrency | Spanish colonial real ⓘ |
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: Valladolid, New Spain Description of subject: Valladolid, New Spain was a prominent colonial city in central Mexico—now known as Morelia—recognized as an important political and cultural center during the Spanish colonial period.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
José María Morelos y Pavón
this entity surface form:
Valladolid, Viceroyalty of New Spain
this entity surface form:
Valladolid (colonial name of Morelia)