Alonso de Ojeda
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Alonso de Ojeda was a Spanish conquistador and explorer of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known for his voyages to the Americas and early exploration of the South American coast.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alonso de Ojeda canonical | 3 |
| de Ojeda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6507433 — 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: Alonso de Ojeda Context triple: [Alonso, hasNotableBearer, Alonso de Ojeda]
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A.
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was a Spanish navigator and explorer best known for commanding one of Christopher Columbus’s ships during the 1492 voyage and later leading his own expeditions to the coasts of Brazil and Central America.
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B.
Pedro de Bobadilla
Pedro de Bobadilla was a Spanish nobleman and colonial official known for serving as the first governor of Paraguay in the early 16th century.
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C.
Juan de Grijalva
Juan de Grijalva was a Spanish conquistador and explorer known for leading one of the first European expeditions to the coasts of present-day Mexico in the early 16th century.
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D.
Martín Alonso Pinzón
Martín Alonso Pinzón was a Spanish mariner and explorer who played a key leadership role in Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas.
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E.
Rodrigo de Bastidas
Rodrigo de Bastidas was a Spanish conquistador and explorer known for his early voyages along the northern coast of South America and his role in the colonization of what is now Colombia.
- 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: Alonso de Ojeda Target entity description: Alonso de Ojeda was a Spanish conquistador and explorer of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known for his voyages to the Americas and early exploration of the South American coast.
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A.
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was a Spanish navigator and explorer best known for commanding one of Christopher Columbus’s ships during the 1492 voyage and later leading his own expeditions to the coasts of Brazil and Central America.
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B.
Pedro de Bobadilla
Pedro de Bobadilla was a Spanish nobleman and colonial official known for serving as the first governor of Paraguay in the early 16th century.
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C.
Juan de Grijalva
Juan de Grijalva was a Spanish conquistador and explorer known for leading one of the first European expeditions to the coasts of present-day Mexico in the early 16th century.
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D.
Martín Alonso Pinzón
Martín Alonso Pinzón was a Spanish mariner and explorer who played a key leadership role in Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas.
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E.
Rodrigo de Bastidas
Rodrigo de Bastidas was a Spanish conquistador and explorer known for his early voyages along the northern coast of South America and his role in the colonization of what is now Colombia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish conquistador
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explorer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Amerigo Vespucci
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Christopher Columbus ⓘ Juan de la Cosa ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1466 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Castile
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Province of Cuenca ⓘ Spain ⓘ Torrejoncillo del Rey ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Crown of Castile
ⓘ
Spain ⓘ |
| deathDate | c. 1515 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Hispaniola
ⓘ
Santo Domingo ⓘ Spanish West Indies ⓘ |
| employer |
Catholic Monarchs
ⓘ
Spanish Crown ⓘ
linked to:
Crown of Spain
|
| ethnicGroup | Castilian ⓘ |
| explored |
Caribbean Sea
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Guajira Peninsula ⓘ Gulf of Paria ⓘ coast of present-day Colombia ⓘ coast of present-day Venezuela ⓘ islands off the coast of Venezuela ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Ojeda
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linked to:
Alonso de Ojeda
|
| founded | short-lived settlement at Coquibacoa ⓘ |
| givenName | Alonso ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Spanish colonial forces ⓘ |
| name | Alonso de Ojeda ⓘ |
| notableEvent | early European contact with indigenous peoples of northern South America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early exploration of the South American coast
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participation in early Spanish conquests in the Caribbean ⓘ voyages to the Americas ⓘ |
| occupation |
conquistador
ⓘ
explorer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | second voyage of Christopher Columbus ⓘ |
| partOf | Spanish colonization of the Americas ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Adelantado in the New World
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governor of Coquibacoa ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 16th century
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late 15th century ⓘ |
| voyage |
1499–1500 voyage along the South American coast
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1502 expedition to Coquibacoa ⓘ 1509 expedition to found a colony on the South American mainland ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alonso de Ojeda Description of subject: Alonso de Ojeda was a Spanish conquistador and explorer of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known for his voyages to the Americas and early exploration of the South American coast.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alonso de Ojeda