La Pinta
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La Pinta was one of the three ships in Christopher Columbus’s 1492 expedition across the Atlantic, known for being the fastest of the fleet.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Pinta canonical | 3 |
| Columbus’s first voyage fleet | 1 |
| caravel Pinta | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10122232 — 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: La Pinta Context triple: [Pinta Island, namedAfter, La Pinta]
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A.
Caravela
Caravela is an island in Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago, known for its remote, sparsely populated character and rich coastal ecosystems.
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B.
Santa María
Santa María was the largest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492.
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C.
Santa María
Santa María is a town in northwestern Argentina known as an agricultural and archaeological center in the Calchaquí Valley region of Catamarca Province.
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D.
Santa María
Santa María is a large stratovolcano in Guatemala known for its catastrophic 1902 eruption and ongoing activity at its Santiaguito lava dome complex.
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E.
Santa María
Santa María is a small Chilean city and commune located in the Valparaíso Region, known for its agricultural activity within the Aconcagua Valley.
- 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: La Pinta Target entity description: La Pinta was one of the three ships in Christopher Columbus’s 1492 expedition across the Atlantic, known for being the fastest of the fleet.
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A.
Caravela
Caravela is an island in Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago, known for its remote, sparsely populated character and rich coastal ecosystems.
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B.
Santa María
Santa María was the largest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492.
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C.
Santa María
Santa María is a large stratovolcano in Guatemala known for its catastrophic 1902 eruption and ongoing activity at its Santiaguito lava dome complex.
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D.
Santa María
Santa María is a small Chilean city and commune located in the Valparaíso Region, known for its agricultural activity within the Aconcagua Valley.
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E.
Santa María
Santa María is a town in northwestern Argentina known as an agricultural and archaeological center in the Calchaquí Valley region of Catamarca Province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
caravel
ⓘ
ship of exploration ⓘ |
| associatedFamily | Pinzón brothers ⓘ |
| associatedPerson |
Christopher Columbus
ⓘ
Martín Alonso Pinzón ⓘ |
| captainNationality | Castilian ⓘ |
| category |
Age of Discovery ships
ⓘ
Exploration ships ⓘ Ships of Spain ⓘ |
| commander | Martín Alonso Pinzón ⓘ |
| crewSizeApprox | 26 ⓘ |
| departureCountry | Crown of Castile ⓘ |
| departureDate | 1492-08-03 ⓘ |
| departurePort | Palos de la Frontera ⓘ |
| era |
Age of Discovery
ⓘ
linked to:
Age of Exploration
|
| firstLandfallDateApprox | 1492-10-12 ⓘ |
| firstLandfallRegion | Bahamas ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Martín Alonso Pinzón ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | participated in first recorded European voyage that reached the Caribbean in 1492 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | the painted one ⓘ |
| navigationRoute | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first of Columbus's ships to sight land in the New World ⓘ |
| operator | Christopher Columbus ⓘ |
| partOf |
Christopher Columbus's first voyage
ⓘ
Columbus's 1492 expedition ⓘ |
| patron |
Catholic Monarchs of Spain
ⓘ
linked to:
Catholic Monarchs
|
| role | fastest ship in Columbus's 1492 fleet ⓘ |
| sailingUnderFlag | Crown of Castile ⓘ |
| sailType | square-rigged on mainmasts ⓘ |
| shipType | caravel redonda ⓘ |
| sightedLandBefore |
La Niña
ⓘ
Santa María ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
La Niña
ⓘ
Santa María ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 15th century ⓘ |
| usedFor |
transatlantic exploration
ⓘ
voyage to the Americas ⓘ |
| voyageCompanion |
La Niña
ⓘ
Santa María ⓘ |
| voyageEndRegion | Caribbean Sea ⓘ |
| voyagePurpose |
expansion of Castilian influence
ⓘ
search for spices and riches ⓘ westward route to Asia ⓘ |
| voyageStartLocation |
Palos de la Frontera, Spain
ⓘ
linked to:
Palos de la Frontera
|
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: La Pinta Description of subject: La Pinta was one of the three ships in Christopher Columbus’s 1492 expedition across the Atlantic, known for being the fastest of the fleet.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Pinta
linked to: La Pinta