Perico, Matanzas, Cuba
E631258
Perico, Matanzas, Cuba is a small Cuban town in the Matanzas Province best known as the birthplace of legendary baseball player Minnie Miñoso.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perico, Matanzas, Cuba canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6957984 — 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: Perico, Matanzas, Cuba Context triple: [Minnie Miñoso, placeOfBirth, Perico, Matanzas, Cuba]
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A.
Camagüey, Cuba
Camagüey, Cuba is a historic central Cuban city known for its colonial architecture, maze-like street layout, and cultural significance as a major provincial capital.
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B.
Ciego de Ávila, Cuba
Ciego de Ávila, Cuba is a central Cuban city and provincial capital known for its agricultural economy and proximity to popular beach resorts like Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo.
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C.
Cienfuegos, Cuba
Cienfuegos, Cuba is a coastal city on the island’s southern shore known for its French-influenced architecture and historic bay, often called the “Pearl of the South.”
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D.
Santa Clara, Cuba
Santa Clara, Cuba is a central Cuban city known as a key revolutionary stronghold where Che Guevara led a decisive battle that helped topple the Batista regime.
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E.
Siboney, Cuba
Siboney, Cuba is a coastal village in eastern Cuba known as a key American landing point during the Spanish–American War.
- 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: Perico, Matanzas, Cuba Target entity description: Perico, Matanzas, Cuba is a small Cuban town in the Matanzas Province best known as the birthplace of legendary baseball player Minnie Miñoso.
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A.
Camagüey, Cuba
Camagüey, Cuba is a historic central Cuban city known for its colonial architecture, maze-like street layout, and cultural significance as a major provincial capital.
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B.
Ciego de Ávila, Cuba
Ciego de Ávila, Cuba is a central Cuban city and provincial capital known for its agricultural economy and proximity to popular beach resorts like Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo.
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C.
Cienfuegos, Cuba
Cienfuegos, Cuba is a coastal city on the island’s southern shore known for its French-influenced architecture and historic bay, often called the “Pearl of the South.”
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D.
Santa Clara, Cuba
Santa Clara, Cuba is a central Cuban city known as a key revolutionary stronghold where Che Guevara led a decisive battle that helped topple the Batista regime.
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E.
Siboney, Cuba
Siboney, Cuba is a coastal village in eastern Cuba known as a key American landing point during the Spanish–American War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Cuba ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Matanzas Province ⓘ |
| geographicLocation | Cuba ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal government of Perico ⓘ |
| hasBirthplaceOf | Minnie Miñoso ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical climate ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Minnie Miñoso ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Matanzas Province ⓘ |
| locatedInPoliticalEntity | Cuba ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Cuba ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Cuba Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland |
island of Cuba
ⓘ
linked to:
Isla de Cuba
|
| locatedOnTerritoryOf |
Republic of Cuba
ⓘ
linked to:
Cuba
|
| notableAs | birthplace of baseball player Minnie Miñoso ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| partOf | Matanzas Province ⓘ |
| timeZoneDSTOffset | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| timeZoneUTCOffset | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | Cuban peso ⓘ |
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: Perico, Matanzas, Cuba Description of subject: Perico, Matanzas, Cuba is a small Cuban town in the Matanzas Province best known as the birthplace of legendary baseball player Minnie Miñoso.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.