de Castro
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de Castro is a Portuguese-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in the arts, politics, and academia across Lusophone countries.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6147378 — 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 Castro Context triple: [Amílcar de Castro, familyName, de Castro]
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A.
de Guzmán
de Guzmán is a Spanish noble family name historically associated with Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order.
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B.
Ñuflo de Chaves
Ñuflo de Chaves was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador and explorer best known for establishing the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in present-day Bolivia.
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C.
Cayetano
Cayetano is a Spanish given name and surname, historically associated with Saint Cajetan and commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries.
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D.
de Madariaga
De Madariaga is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Salvador de Madariaga, a prominent diplomat, writer, and advocate of European integration.
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E.
de Arriaga
de Arriaga is a Spanish-origin surname notably borne by Manuel de Arriaga, the first elected president of the Portuguese Republic.
- 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 Castro Target entity description: de Castro is a Portuguese-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in the arts, politics, and academia across Lusophone countries.
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A.
de Guzmán
de Guzmán is a Spanish noble family name historically associated with Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order.
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B.
Ñuflo de Chaves
Ñuflo de Chaves was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador and explorer best known for establishing the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in present-day Bolivia.
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C.
Cayetano
Cayetano is a Spanish given name and surname, historically associated with Saint Cajetan and commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries.
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D.
de Madariaga
De Madariaga is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Salvador de Madariaga, a prominent diplomat, writer, and advocate of European integration.
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E.
de Arriaga
de Arriaga is a Spanish-origin surname notably borne by Manuel de Arriaga, the first elected president of the Portuguese Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese-language surname
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Castro
ⓘ
de ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Portuguese culture ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Portuguese
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese language
|
| hasLanguageOfUse |
Portuguese
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | of Castro ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearersInField |
academia
ⓘ
arts ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicVariant |
De Castro
ⓘ
linked to:
de Castro
deCastro ⓘ
linked to:
de Castro
|
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasType | toponymic surname ⓘ |
| isDerivedFrom | Castro (surname) ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry |
Angola
ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ Cape Verde ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Verde Islands
East Timor ⓘ
linked to:
Timor-Leste
Guinea-Bissau ⓘ Mozambique ⓘ Portugal ⓘ |
| isUsedInRegion | Lusophone world ⓘ |
| isWrittenWithSpace | true ⓘ |
| usesPrepositionalParticle | de ⓘ |
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 Castro Description of subject: de Castro is a Portuguese-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in the arts, politics, and academia across Lusophone countries.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Amílcar
linked to: de Castro
linked to: de Castro
linked to: de Castro
subject linked to:
João de Castro, 2nd Viceroy of India