José de Urrea
E168422
José de Urrea was a Mexican general noted for his skilled and largely successful campaigns against Texan forces during the Texas Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| José de Urrea canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1019507 — 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: José de Urrea Context triple: [Texas Revolution, commander, José de Urrea]
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A.
Ignacio de la Carrera
Ignacio de la Carrera was a Chilean patriot and politician who played a key role in the country’s early independence movement as part of its first national governing body.
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B.
Antonio de Villarroel
Antonio de Villarroel was a Spanish military commander best known for leading the defense of Barcelona during the final stages of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Antonio de Oquendo
Antonio de Oquendo was a 17th-century Spanish admiral best known for leading the Spanish fleet in major naval conflicts against the Dutch during the Eighty Years' War.
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D.
Sebastián de Eslava
Sebastián de Eslava was an 18th-century Spanish military officer and colonial administrator best known for his role as viceroy of New Granada and his leadership in defending Cartagena de Indias against British attacks.
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E.
Fernando de Valdés
Fernando de Valdés was a 16th-century Spanish churchman and statesman who served as one of the most powerful and controversial Grand Inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition.
- 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: José de Urrea Target entity description: José de Urrea was a Mexican general noted for his skilled and largely successful campaigns against Texan forces during the Texas Revolution.
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A.
Ignacio de la Carrera
Ignacio de la Carrera was a Chilean patriot and politician who played a key role in the country’s early independence movement as part of its first national governing body.
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B.
Antonio de Villarroel
Antonio de Villarroel was a Spanish military commander best known for leading the defense of Barcelona during the final stages of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Antonio de Oquendo
Antonio de Oquendo was a 17th-century Spanish admiral best known for leading the Spanish fleet in major naval conflicts against the Dutch during the Eighty Years' War.
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D.
Sebastián de Eslava
Sebastián de Eslava was an 18th-century Spanish military officer and colonial administrator best known for his role as viceroy of New Granada and his leadership in defending Cartagena de Indias against British attacks.
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E.
Fernando de Valdés
Fernando de Valdés was a 16th-century Spanish churchman and statesman who served as one of the most powerful and controversial Grand Inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mexican general
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human ⓘ |
| conflict | Texas Revolution ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mexico ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mexican ⓘ |
| familyName | de Urrea ⓘ |
| givenName | José ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| militaryAchievement | defeated several Texan detachments along the Texas coast ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Mexican Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Armed Forces of Mexico
|
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| name | José de Urrea ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Coleto
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Battle of Refugio ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Goliad Campaign ⓘ |
| notableFor | Texas Revolution ⓘ |
| notedFor |
largely successful campaigns against Texan forces
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skilled military campaigns ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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soldier ⓘ |
| opponent | Texan forces ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Texas
ⓘ
northern Mexico ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Mexico
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| reputation |
competent field commander
ⓘ
more successful than other Mexican commanders in Texas campaign ⓘ |
| roleInConflict | Mexican commander ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Antonio López de Santa Anna ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Centralist Mexican government ⓘ |
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: José de Urrea Description of subject: José de Urrea was a Mexican general noted for his skilled and largely successful campaigns against Texan forces during the Texas Revolution.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.