Trastámara
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Trastámara is a historical region in Galicia, Spain, best known for giving its name to the influential House of Trastámara, a royal dynasty that ruled several Iberian kingdoms in the late Middle Ages.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trastámara canonical | 3 |
| Trastámara (feminine in Spanish) | 1 |
| Trastámara Spain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2965276 — 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: Trastámara Context triple: [County of Trastámara, historicalRegion, Trastámara]
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A.
Count of Trastámara
Count of Trastámara was a medieval noble title in the Kingdom of Castile associated with the Trastámara dynasty, whose members rose to become kings of Castile and later of other Iberian realms.
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B.
Cortes of Aragon
The Cortes of Aragon is the autonomous community parliament of Aragon in northeastern Spain, responsible for regional lawmaking and political representation.
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C.
Henry III of Castile
Henry III of Castile was a late 14th- and early 15th-century king of Castile and León known for consolidating royal authority, curbing noble power, and strengthening the monarchy’s finances and foreign alliances.
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D.
Henry II of Castile
Henry II of Castile was a 14th-century king who seized the Castilian throne after a civil war against his half-brother Peter I and became the first monarch of the Trastámara dynasty.
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E.
Alfonso III of Aragon
Alfonso III of Aragon was a 13th-century king of Aragon and count of Barcelona known for consolidating his realm’s Mediterranean power and clashing with French and papal forces during the Aragonese Crusade.
- 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: Trastámara Target entity description: Trastámara is a historical region in Galicia, Spain, best known for giving its name to the influential House of Trastámara, a royal dynasty that ruled several Iberian kingdoms in the late Middle Ages.
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A.
Count of Trastámara
Count of Trastámara was a medieval noble title in the Kingdom of Castile associated with the Trastámara dynasty, whose members rose to become kings of Castile and later of other Iberian realms.
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B.
Cortes of Aragon
The Cortes of Aragon is the autonomous community parliament of Aragon in northeastern Spain, responsible for regional lawmaking and political representation.
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C.
Henry III of Castile
Henry III of Castile was a late 14th- and early 15th-century king of Castile and León known for consolidating royal authority, curbing noble power, and strengthening the monarchy’s finances and foreign alliances.
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D.
Henry II of Castile
Henry II of Castile was a 14th-century king who seized the Castilian throne after a civil war against his half-brother Peter I and became the first monarch of the Trastámara dynasty.
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E.
Alfonso III of Aragon
Alfonso III of Aragon was a 13th-century king of Aragon and count of Barcelona known for consolidating his realm’s Mediterranean power and clashing with French and papal forces during the Aragonese Crusade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical region
ⓘ
region of Galicia ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | House of Trastámara ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Castile
ⓘ
Crown of Castile ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| etymology | name later used as dynastic surname by the House of Trastámara ⓘ |
| gaveNameTo | House of Trastámara ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | gave its name to a royal dynasty that ruled several Iberian kingdoms ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | non-administrative traditional region ⓘ |
| language |
Galician
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Galicia
ⓘ
northwest Spain ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Iberian Peninsula ⓘ |
| namedAfter | House of Trastámara ⓘ |
| notableFor | origin of the Trastámara dynasty ⓘ |
| partOf | Kingdom of Galicia ⓘ |
| regionOf | Spain ⓘ |
| regionType | rural region ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Iberian royal dynasties ⓘ |
| religionHistorically | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| usedAsTitleIn |
Castile
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Castile
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| usedAsToponymicBy | members of the House of Trastámara ⓘ |
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: Trastámara Description of subject: Trastámara is a historical region in Galicia, Spain, best known for giving its name to the influential House of Trastámara, a royal dynasty that ruled several Iberian kingdoms in the late Middle Ages.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Trastámara Spain
this entity surface form:
Trastámara (feminine in Spanish)