Niña
E43364
Niña was one of the three ships in Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage across the Atlantic, notable for its role in the first European expedition to the Americas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Niña canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T331212 — 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: Niña Context triple: [Christopher Columbus, shipCommanded, Niña]
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A.
Lulu
Lulu is a common feminine given name or nickname, often used as a diminutive form of names like Louise.
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B.
Alicia
Alicia is the given name of the American singer, songwriter, and pianist Alicia Keys, known for her soulful R&B music and powerful vocals.
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C.
Hilda
Hilda is the middle name of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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D.
Miguel
Miguel is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer known for his smooth vocals and genre-blending, atmospheric sound.
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E.
Rebeca
Rebeca is a feminine given name, commonly used in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, that is a variant of the name Rebecca.
- 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: Niña Target entity description: Niña was one of the three ships in Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage across the Atlantic, notable for its role in the first European expedition to the Americas.
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A.
Lulu
Lulu is a common feminine given name or nickname, often used as a diminutive form of names like Louise.
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B.
Alicia
Alicia is the given name of the American singer, songwriter, and pianist Alicia Keys, known for her soulful R&B music and powerful vocals.
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C.
Hilda
Hilda is the middle name of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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D.
Miguel
Miguel is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer known for his smooth vocals and genre-blending, atmospheric sound.
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E.
Rebeca
Rebeca is a feminine given name, commonly used in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, that is a variant of the name Rebecca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Columbus expedition ship
ⓘ
caravel ⓘ sailing ship ⓘ |
| approximateTonnage | about 60 tons ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | European discovery of the Americas ⓘ |
| captainOnFirstVoyage | Vicente Yáñez Pinzón ⓘ |
| category |
Santa María
ⓘ
surface form:
Christopher Columbus ships
Individual sailing vessels ⓘ Ships of the Age of Discovery ⓘ |
| commandedBy | Christopher Columbus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Castile
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Castile
|
| crewSize | about 20–30 men ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Age of Exploration
ⓘ
surface form:
Age of Discovery
|
| historicalSignificance | key vessel in initiating sustained contact between Europe and the Americas ⓘ |
| landfallRegion |
Bahamas
ⓘ
surface form:
the Bahamas
|
| name | Niña self-link ⓘ |
| namedAfter | the Niño family of shipowners ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the three ships on Columbus's first voyage
ⓘ
crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 ⓘ |
| operatedIn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| originalName | Santa Clara ⓘ |
| owner | Juan Niño ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas ⓘ |
| partOf |
voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas
ⓘ
surface form:
Columbus's 1492 Atlantic fleet
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| returnedWith | Christopher Columbus on the first voyage ⓘ |
| riggingType | lateen-rigged caravel (later modified) ⓘ |
| role | exploration ship in the first European expedition to the Americas ⓘ |
| sailedFrom | Palos de la Frontera ⓘ |
| sailedUnderFlag | Crown of Castile ⓘ |
| shipType | caravel ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
Pinta
ⓘ
Santa María ⓘ |
| subsequentVoyage | Columbus's second voyage to the Americas ⓘ |
| usedBy | Christopher Columbus ⓘ |
| usedFor | transatlantic exploration ⓘ |
| voyageCompanion |
Pinta
ⓘ
Santa María ⓘ |
| voyageDestination |
Caribbean
ⓘ
surface form:
the Caribbean
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| voyageStartYear | 1492 ⓘ |
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: Niña Description of subject: Niña was one of the three ships in Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage across the Atlantic, notable for its role in the first European expedition to the Americas.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.