Tordesillas
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Tordesillas is a historic town in northwestern Spain best known as the site where Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, dividing newly discovered lands outside Europe between them.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tordesillas canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206615 — 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: Tordesillas Context triple: [Treaty of Tordesillas, locationSigned, Tordesillas]
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Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas was a 1494 agreement between Spain and Portugal, brokered by the papacy, that divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between the two powers and shaped the colonial map of the Americas and beyond.
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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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Barra
Barra is the surname of Mary Barra, the prominent American business executive and CEO of General Motors.
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Iberia
Iberia is the flag carrier airline of Spain, operating an extensive network of domestic and international flights, particularly linking Europe with Latin America.
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Bourbon Spain
Bourbon Spain was the early 18th-century Spanish monarchy under the French-origin Bourbon dynasty, marked by centralizing reforms and involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 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: Tordesillas Target entity description: Tordesillas is a historic town in northwestern Spain best known as the site where Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, dividing newly discovered lands outside Europe between them.
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A.
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas was a 1494 agreement between Spain and Portugal, brokered by the papacy, that divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between the two powers and shaped the colonial map of the Americas and beyond.
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B.
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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C.
Barra
Barra is the surname of Mary Barra, the prominent American business executive and CEO of General Motors.
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D.
Iberia
Iberia is the flag carrier airline of Spain, operating an extensive network of domestic and international flights, particularly linking Europe with Latin America.
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E.
Bourbon Spain
Bourbon Spain was the early 18th-century Spanish monarchy under the French-origin Bourbon dynasty, marked by centralizing reforms and involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Tordesillas Description of subject: Tordesillas is a historic town in northwestern Spain best known as the site where Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, dividing newly discovered lands outside Europe between them.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.