Spanish real
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The Spanish real was a silver coin and monetary unit widely used across the Spanish Empire, serving as a key medium of exchange in Spain and its American colonies from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spanish real canonical | 19 |
| Spanish colonial real | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560022 — 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: Spanish real Context triple: [Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, currency, Spanish real]
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A.
Andalusian Spanish
Andalusian Spanish is a prominent regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in Andalusia in southern Spain, known for distinctive phonetic features such as consonant weakening and seseo/ceceo.
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B.
Spanish
Spanish is a Romance language originating from the Iberian Peninsula that is now one of the world’s most widely spoken languages across Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
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C.
Bourbon Spain
Bourbon Spain was the early 18th-century Spanish monarchy under the French-origin Bourbon dynasty, marked by centralizing reforms and involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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D.
Murcian Spanish
Murcian Spanish is a regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, characterized by phonetic and lexical features similar to those of neighboring Andalusian dialects.
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E.
Pastuso Spanish
Pastuso Spanish is a regional variety of Colombian Spanish spoken primarily in and around the city of Pasto in southwestern Colombia, characterized by distinctive pronunciation and vocabulary influenced by Andean and neighboring Ecuadorian dialects.
- 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: Spanish real Target entity description: The Spanish real was a silver coin and monetary unit widely used across the Spanish Empire, serving as a key medium of exchange in Spain and its American colonies from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century.
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A.
Andalusian Spanish
Andalusian Spanish is a prominent regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in Andalusia in southern Spain, known for distinctive phonetic features such as consonant weakening and seseo/ceceo.
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B.
Spanish
Spanish is a Romance language originating from the Iberian Peninsula that is now one of the world’s most widely spoken languages across Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
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C.
Bourbon Spain
Bourbon Spain was the early 18th-century Spanish monarchy under the French-origin Bourbon dynasty, marked by centralizing reforms and involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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D.
Murcian Spanish
Murcian Spanish is a regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, characterized by phonetic and lexical features similar to those of neighboring Andalusian dialects.
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E.
Pastuso Spanish
Pastuso Spanish is a regional variety of Colombian Spanish spoken primarily in and around the city of Pasto in southwestern Colombia, characterized by distinctive pronunciation and vocabulary influenced by Andean and neighboring Ecuadorian dialects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical currency
ⓘ
silver coin ⓘ |
| circulationArea |
Americas
ⓘ
Caribbean ⓘ Europe ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| currencyOf | Spain ⓘ |
| denominationSystem | real ⓘ |
| endTime | 19th century ⓘ |
| historicalRole | key medium of exchange in the Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| legalStatus |
legal tender in Spain
ⓘ
legal tender in Spanish colonies ⓘ |
| material | silver ⓘ |
| metallicStandard | silver standard ⓘ |
| mintedIn |
Spanish mints
ⓘ
colonial mints in the Americas ⓘ |
| monetaryFunction |
circulating coin
ⓘ
unit of account ⓘ |
| precededBy | medieval Castilian coinage ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Spanish peseta ⓘ |
| startTime |
Late Middle Ages
ⓘ
surface form:
late Middle Ages
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| subunitOf | Spanish monetary system ⓘ |
| usedAs |
medium of exchange
ⓘ
monetary unit ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Spain
ⓘ
Spanish America ⓘ Spanish Empire ⓘ Spanish colonies ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
Bourbon Spain
ⓘ
Habsburg Spain ⓘ |
| usedInTrade |
American colonial trade
ⓘ
Atlantic trade ⓘ |
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: Spanish real Description of subject: The Spanish real was a silver coin and monetary unit widely used across the Spanish Empire, serving as a key medium of exchange in Spain and its American colonies from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Spanish colonial real
this entity surface form:
Spanish colonial real