Nao de China
E617621
Nao de China was the Spanish term for the Manila galleons, the trans-Pacific trading ships that linked Asia and the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nao de China canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6779605 — 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: Nao de China Context triple: [Nao de China route, alsoKnownAs, Nao de China]
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A.
Changyi
Changyi is a county-level coastal city in northeastern Shandong Province, China, known for its manufacturing industries and location on the Bohai Sea.
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B.
Tsien
Tsien is a Chinese surname borne by several notable figures in science and engineering, including biophysicist Richard Tsien.
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C.
Enlai
Enlai is the given name of Zhou Enlai, the prominent first Premier of the People's Republic of China and a key figure in Chinese Communist history.
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D.
Enbo
Enbo is a given name most notably associated with Tang Enbo, a prominent Chinese Nationalist general during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.
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E.
Mengo
Mengo is a historic hill and neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda, that served as the traditional political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Buganda.
- 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: Nao de China Target entity description: Nao de China was the Spanish term for the Manila galleons, the trans-Pacific trading ships that linked Asia and the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.
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A.
Changyi
Changyi is a county-level coastal city in northeastern Shandong Province, China, known for its manufacturing industries and location on the Bohai Sea.
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B.
Tsien
Tsien is a Chinese surname borne by several notable figures in science and engineering, including biophysicist Richard Tsien.
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C.
Enlai
Enlai is the given name of Zhou Enlai, the prominent first Premier of the People's Republic of China and a key figure in Chinese Communist history.
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D.
Enbo
Enbo is a given name most notably associated with Tang Enbo, a prominent Chinese Nationalist general during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.
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E.
Mengo
Mengo is a historic hill and neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda, that served as the traditional political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Buganda.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish colonial institution
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historical trade route ⓘ trans-Pacific trade network ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Galeones de Manila
NERFINISHED
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Galeón de Manila NERFINISHED ⓘ Manila galleons NERFINISHED ⓘ Nao de Acapulco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfOperation |
16th century
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17th century ⓘ 18th century ⓘ early 19th century ⓘ |
| colonialPower | Spanish Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| economicRole |
channel for silver flow from Americas to Asia
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main axis of Spanish trans-Pacific trade ⓘ |
| endTime | 1815 ⓘ |
| historicalImpact |
contributed to early globalization
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linked Asian and American markets ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| linkedCity |
Manila
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mexico City NERFINISHED ⓘ Seville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkedCountry |
China
NERFINISHED
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Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkedPort |
Acapulco
NERFINISHED
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Callao NERFINISHED ⓘ Cavite NERFINISHED ⓘ Manila NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkedRegion |
Americas
NERFINISHED
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Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Spanish Crown
NERFINISHED
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Spanish colonial authorities in New Spain ⓘ |
| route |
Acapulco–Manila
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manila–Acapulco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1565 ⓘ |
| tradeGood |
Chinese porcelain
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Chinese silk ⓘ European manufactured goods ⓘ cacao ⓘ cochineal ⓘ cotton textiles ⓘ ivory ⓘ lacquerware ⓘ olive oil ⓘ silver ⓘ spices ⓘ wine ⓘ |
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: Nao de China Description of subject: Nao de China was the Spanish term for the Manila galleons, the trans-Pacific trading ships that linked Asia and the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.