Province of Nuevo México
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The Province of Nuevo México was a remote northern territory of the Spanish Empire in North America, encompassing parts of present-day New Mexico and surrounding regions as a colonial frontier outpost.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Mexico (Spanish province) | 1 |
| New Mexico Province | 1 |
| Northern Provinces of New Spain | 1 |
| Province of Nuevo México canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8816834 — 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: Province of Nuevo México Context triple: [Juan Bautista de Anza, governed, Province of Nuevo México]
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A.
Mexican Alta California
Mexican Alta California was a vast northwestern province of Mexico from 1821 to 1848, encompassing much of present-day California and parts of neighboring U.S. states before its cession to the United States.
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B.
New Mexico Territory
New Mexico Territory was a large U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the American Southwest, organized in 1850 and encompassing present-day New Mexico and Arizona as well as parts of surrounding states before later being subdivided into smaller territories and states.
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C.
Santa Fe Province
Santa Fe Province is a central-eastern Argentine province known for its fertile agricultural lands, major industrial centers like Rosario, and its key role in the country’s economy and river-based trade.
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D.
Province of San Antonio
The Province of San Antonio is a coastal administrative division in central Chile known for its port city of San Antonio and its role within the Valparaíso Region.
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E.
State of Durango
The State of Durango is a large, landlocked federal entity in north-central Mexico known for its mountainous terrain, mining history, and role as a key link between central Mexico and the northern border regions.
- 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: Province of Nuevo México Target entity description: The Province of Nuevo México was a remote northern territory of the Spanish Empire in North America, encompassing parts of present-day New Mexico and surrounding regions as a colonial frontier outpost.
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A.
Mexican Alta California
Mexican Alta California was a vast northwestern province of Mexico from 1821 to 1848, encompassing much of present-day California and parts of neighboring U.S. states before its cession to the United States.
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B.
New Mexico Territory
New Mexico Territory was a large U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the American Southwest, organized in 1850 and encompassing present-day New Mexico and Arizona as well as parts of surrounding states before later being subdivided into smaller territories and states.
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C.
Santa Fe Province
Santa Fe Province is a central-eastern Argentine province known for its fertile agricultural lands, major industrial centers like Rosario, and its key role in the country’s economy and river-based trade.
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D.
Province of San Antonio
The Province of San Antonio is a coastal administrative division in central Chile known for its port city of San Antonio and its role within the Valparaíso Region.
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E.
State of Durango
The State of Durango is a large, landlocked federal entity in north-central Mexico known for its mountainous terrain, mining history, and role as a key link between central Mexico and the northern border regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish colonial province
ⓘ
former administrative territorial entity ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Nuevo México Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Provincia de Nuevo México NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Chihuahuan Desert to the south
ⓘ
Colorado Plateau to the west ⓘ Great Plains to the east ⓘ Rocky Mountains to the north NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Santa Fe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| economy |
limited mining
ⓘ
livestock ranching ⓘ subsistence agriculture ⓘ trade with Indigenous peoples ⓘ |
| endTime |
1821
ⓘ
early 19th century ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Juan de Oñate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | Spanish colonial administration ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Spanish colonization of the Americas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| indigenousGroups |
Apache
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Comanche NERFINISHED ⓘ Navajo NERFINISHED ⓘ Pueblo peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Ute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
multiethnic population of Spaniards, mestizos, and Indigenous peoples
ⓘ
remote frontier status within the Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North America
ⓘ
northern frontier of New Spain ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
Arizona
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRole | buffer zone against rival European powers and nomadic peoples ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
New Spain region of Nuevo León y Nuevo México naming tradition
ⓘ
concept of a "New Mexico" north of the Valley of Mexico ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| partOf | Viceroyalty of New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRiver | Rio Grande NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Pueblo Revolt of 1680
NERFINISHED
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Spanish reconquest of New Mexico 1692–1693 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
1598
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late 16th century ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | province of New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor |
Mexican territory of New Mexico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Territory of New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Province of Nuevo México Description of subject: The Province of Nuevo México was a remote northern territory of the Spanish Empire in North America, encompassing parts of present-day New Mexico and surrounding regions as a colonial frontier outpost.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New Mexico (Spanish province)
this entity surface form:
New Mexico Province
this entity surface form:
Northern Provinces of New Spain