Sahagún
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Sahagún was a 16th-century Franciscan friar and pioneering ethnographer whose extensive work recorded the culture, religion, and history of the Aztec people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sahagún canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11241607 — 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: Sahagún Context triple: [Aztec New Fire ceremony, documentedBy, Sahagún]
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A.
Sahagún
Sahagún is a historic town in northwestern Spain, known for its medieval architecture and role along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.
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B.
Sahagún
Sahagún is a municipality and town in northern Colombia’s Córdoba Department, known as a regional commercial and agricultural center.
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C.
Simancas
Simancas is a historic town in Spain renowned for its royal archive, which houses some of the country’s most important state documents.
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D.
San Miguel de Lillo
San Miguel de Lillo is a 9th-century pre-Romanesque church near Oviedo in Asturias, Spain, renowned for its distinctive Asturian architecture and UNESCO World Heritage status.
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E.
Navàs
Navàs is a municipality in the comarca of Bages in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- 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: Sahagún Target entity description: Sahagún was a 16th-century Franciscan friar and pioneering ethnographer whose extensive work recorded the culture, religion, and history of the Aztec people.
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A.
Sahagún
Sahagún is a historic town in northwestern Spain, known for its medieval architecture and role along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.
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B.
Sahagún
Sahagún is a municipality and town in northern Colombia’s Córdoba Department, known as a regional commercial and agricultural center.
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C.
Simancas
Simancas is a historic town in Spain renowned for its royal archive, which houses some of the country’s most important state documents.
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D.
San Miguel de Lillo
San Miguel de Lillo is a 9th-century pre-Romanesque church near Oviedo in Asturias, Spain, renowned for its distinctive Asturian architecture and UNESCO World Heritage status.
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E.
Navàs
Navàs is a municipality in the comarca of Bages in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic priest
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Franciscan friar ⓘ ethnographer ⓘ historian ⓘ human ⓘ missionary ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1499 ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Kingdom of Castile
ⓘ
linked to:
Castile
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Viceroyalty of New Spain ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1590 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Salamanca ⓘ |
| employer |
Franciscan order in New Spain
ⓘ
linked to:
Spanish Franciscans
|
| familyName |
de Sahagún
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linked to:
Bernardino de Sahagún
|
| fieldOfWork |
Nahuatl language studies
ⓘ
anthropology of Mesoamerica ⓘ ethnography ⓘ history of the Aztecs ⓘ |
| fullName | Bernardino de Sahagún ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernardino ⓘ |
| knownFor |
documenting Aztec culture
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documenting Aztec history ⓘ documenting Aztec religion ⓘ pioneering ethnographic methods ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Classical Nahuatl
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Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Order of Friars Minor ⓘ |
| methodologicalInnovation |
parallel bilingual texts in Nahuatl and Spanish
ⓘ
systematic interviews with indigenous informants ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Florentine Codex
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Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España ⓘ |
| occupation |
chronicler
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ethnographer ⓘ friar ⓘ linguist ⓘ missionary ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sahagún, León ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mexico City ⓘ |
| religion |
Catholicism
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| studied |
Aztec history
ⓘ
Aztec medicine ⓘ Aztec religion ⓘ
linked to:
Aztec mythology
Aztec social structure ⓘ |
| usedLanguage |
Latin
ⓘ
Nahuatl ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Mexico City
ⓘ
New Spain ⓘ
linked to:
Viceroyalty of New Spain
Tlatelolco ⓘ |
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: Sahagún Description of subject: Sahagún was a 16th-century Franciscan friar and pioneering ethnographer whose extensive work recorded the culture, religion, and history of the Aztec people.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.