Mabila
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Mabila is the fortified Native American town in present-day Alabama that was the site of a major 1540 battle between Hernando de Soto’s Spanish expedition and the forces of Chief Tuskaloosa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mabila canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6386596 — 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: Mabila Context triple: [Battle of Mabila, hasAlternativeName, Mabila]
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A.
Malakula
Malakula is one of the largest and most culturally diverse islands of Vanuatu, known for its many distinct languages and traditional customs.
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B.
Shabara
Shabara was an early Indian philosopher and commentator best known for his influential exegesis on the Purva Mimamsa school of Hindu philosophy.
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C.
Mangu
Mangu is a town and local government area in central Nigeria known for its agricultural activities and ethnic diversity within Plateau State.
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D.
Batalha
Batalha is a Portuguese town best known for its UNESCO-listed Batalha Monastery, a masterpiece of Gothic and Manueline architecture.
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E.
Matabaan
Matabaan is a town in central Somalia that serves as one of the urban centers within the federal member state of Hirshabelle.
- 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: Mabila Target entity description: Mabila is the fortified Native American town in present-day Alabama that was the site of a major 1540 battle between Hernando de Soto’s Spanish expedition and the forces of Chief Tuskaloosa.
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A.
Malakula
Malakula is one of the largest and most culturally diverse islands of Vanuatu, known for its many distinct languages and traditional customs.
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B.
Shabara
Shabara was an early Indian philosopher and commentator best known for his influential exegesis on the Purva Mimamsa school of Hindu philosophy.
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C.
Mangu
Mangu is a town and local government area in central Nigeria known for its agricultural activities and ethnic diversity within Plateau State.
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D.
Batalha
Batalha is a Portuguese town best known for its UNESCO-listed Batalha Monastery, a masterpiece of Gothic and Manueline architecture.
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E.
Matabaan
Matabaan is a town in central Somalia that serves as one of the urban centers within the federal member state of Hirshabelle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American town
ⓘ
Spanish exploration expedition ⓘ battle ⓘ fortified town ⓘ historical settlement ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chief Tuskaloosa
ⓘ
linked to:
Choctaw chief Tuskaloosa
Hernando de Soto ⓘ |
| conflictBetween |
Forces of Chief Tuskaloosa
ⓘ
Hernando de Soto’s Spanish expedition ⓘ
linked to:
Hernando de Soto expedition
|
| country |
United States (present-day)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culture | Mississippian culture ⓘ |
| date | 1540 ⓘ |
| era | Spanish exploration of North America ⓘ |
| fortificationType | palisaded town ⓘ |
| hasLeader |
Chief Tuskaloosa
ⓘ
linked to:
Choctaw chief Tuskaloosa
|
| historicalStatus | destroyed ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy |
Mississippian peoples
ⓘ
linked to:
Mississippian culture
Native Americans ⓘ |
| leader | Hernando de Soto ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mabila
ⓘ
Mississippian cultural area ⓘ
linked to:
Mississippian culture
Southeastern United States ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
present-day Alabama ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Battle of Mabila (1540)
ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Mabila
|
| partOf |
Chiefdom of Tuskaloosa
ⓘ
Hernando de Soto expedition ⓘ |
| region |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| significance | site of major 16th-century conflict between Spanish explorers and Native Americans ⓘ |
| siteOf | Battle of Mabila ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
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: Mabila Description of subject: Mabila is the fortified Native American town in present-day Alabama that was the site of a major 1540 battle between Hernando de Soto’s Spanish expedition and the forces of Chief Tuskaloosa.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
battle of Mabila (during his North American expedition)