Altimira
E611211
Altimira is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Father José Altimira, a Franciscan missionary active in early 19th-century California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Altimira canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6690389 — 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: Altimira Context triple: [Father José Altimira, familyName, Altimira]
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A.
Hohle Fels
Hohle Fels is a famous Paleolithic cave in southwestern Germany known for yielding some of the world’s oldest examples of figurative art and musical instruments.
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B.
Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük is a large, well-preserved Neolithic proto-city in central Anatolia, renowned for its densely packed mudbrick houses, early agricultural society, and rich symbolic wall art.
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C.
Hohlenstein-Stadel cave
Hohlenstein-Stadel cave is a prehistoric cave in the Swabian Jura of Germany, best known as the discovery site of the Ice Age ivory figurine known as the Lion-man.
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D.
Altamira
Altamira is an industrial and port city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, known for its petrochemical complexes and strategic location on the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Abu Hureyra
Abu Hureyra is an important archaeological site in modern-day Syria that preserves evidence of the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to early farming communities.
- 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: Altimira Target entity description: Altimira is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Father José Altimira, a Franciscan missionary active in early 19th-century California.
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A.
Hohle Fels
Hohle Fels is a famous Paleolithic cave in southwestern Germany known for yielding some of the world’s oldest examples of figurative art and musical instruments.
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B.
Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük is a large, well-preserved Neolithic proto-city in central Anatolia, renowned for its densely packed mudbrick houses, early agricultural society, and rich symbolic wall art.
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C.
Hohlenstein-Stadel cave
Hohlenstein-Stadel cave is a prehistoric cave in the Swabian Jura of Germany, best known as the discovery site of the Ice Age ivory figurine known as the Lion-man.
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D.
Altamira
Altamira is an industrial and port city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, known for its petrochemical complexes and strategic location on the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Abu Hureyra
Abu Hureyra is an important archaeological site in modern-day Syria that preserves evidence of the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to early farming communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish mission in California
ⓘ
Spanish-language surname ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfActivity |
Mexico
ⓘ
Spain ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName | Altimira ⓘ |
| founded | Mission San Francisco Solano ⓘ |
| founder | José Altimira ⓘ |
| givenName | José ⓘ |
| hasNotableHistoricalAssociation | Mission San Francisco Solano ⓘ |
| knownFor | missionary work in early 19th-century California ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Sonoma, California ⓘ |
| notableBearer | José Altimira ⓘ |
| notableInContext | Spanish missions in California ⓘ |
| occupation | Franciscan missionary ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Alta California
ⓘ
linked to:
Alta California (Spanish colony)
|
| religiousOrder |
Franciscan
ⓘ
Franciscan ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Altimira Description of subject: Altimira is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Father José Altimira, a Franciscan missionary active in early 19th-century California.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Altimira