Dela Cruz
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Dela Cruz is a common Spanish-derived surname, especially prevalent in the Philippines and other Spanish-influenced countries.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dela Cruz canonical | 1 |
| DelaCruz | 1 |
| Delacruz | 1 |
| de la Cruz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10681578 — 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: Dela Cruz Context triple: [De La Cruz, hasVariant, Dela Cruz]
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A.
Steffiana de la Cruz
Steffiana de la Cruz is an American actress and model best known for her supporting roles in film and television and for being married to comedian and actor Kevin James.
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B.
Vhong Navarro
Vhong Navarro is a Filipino comedian, actor, dancer, and television host best known as a longtime mainstay of the noontime variety show "It's Showtime."
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C.
Sharlene San Pedro
Sharlene San Pedro is a Filipino actress, television host, and former child star best known for her work on ABS-CBN shows and various films in the Philippines.
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D.
Esperanza Limjap
Esperanza Limjap was a Filipina notable as the wife of Sergio Osmeña, the fourth President of the Philippines, and a member of a prominent Cebuano family.
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E.
Ofelia Salazar
Ofelia Salazar is a character from the television series "Fear the Walking Dead," known as the resourceful and determined daughter of Daniel Salazar.
- 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: Dela Cruz Target entity description: Dela Cruz is a common Spanish-derived surname, especially prevalent in the Philippines and other Spanish-influenced countries.
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A.
Steffiana de la Cruz
Steffiana de la Cruz is an American actress and model best known for her supporting roles in film and television and for being married to comedian and actor Kevin James.
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B.
Vhong Navarro
Vhong Navarro is a Filipino comedian, actor, dancer, and television host best known as a longtime mainstay of the noontime variety show "It's Showtime."
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C.
Sharlene San Pedro
Sharlene San Pedro is a Filipino actress, television host, and former child star best known for her work on ABS-CBN shows and various films in the Philippines.
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D.
Esperanza Limjap
Esperanza Limjap was a Filipina notable as the wife of Sergio Osmeña, the fourth President of the Philippines, and a member of a prominent Cebuano family.
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E.
Ofelia Salazar
Ofelia Salazar is a character from the television series "Fear the Walking Dead," known as the resourceful and determined daughter of Daniel Salazar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Cruz
ⓘ
de ⓘ la ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasGender | unisex ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | of the Cross ⓘ |
| hasReligiousConnotation | Christianity ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
De la Cruz
ⓘ
linked to:
De La Cruz
DelaCruz ⓘ
linked to:
Dela Cruz
Delacruz ⓘ
linked to:
Dela Cruz
|
| isCommonIn | Philippines ⓘ |
| isCommonInFilipinoDiaspora | yes ⓘ |
| isDerivedFrom |
de la Cruz
ⓘ
linked to:
Dela Cruz
|
| isInCategory |
Filipino surnames
ⓘ
Spanish-language surnames ⓘ Surnames of Christian origin ⓘ |
| isOccupationalName | no ⓘ |
| isPatronymicName | no ⓘ |
| isRelatedSurname |
Cruz
ⓘ
Santa Cruz ⓘ |
| isTheophoricName | yes ⓘ |
| isToponymicName | no ⓘ |
| isUsedAsFictionalCharacterSurname | yes ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Guam ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Puerto Rico ⓘ Spain ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| isWrittenWithDiacritics | no ⓘ |
| isWrittenWithSpace | yes ⓘ |
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: Dela Cruz Description of subject: Dela Cruz is a common Spanish-derived surname, especially prevalent in the Philippines and other Spanish-influenced countries.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dela Cruz
linked to: Dela Cruz
linked to: Dela Cruz