Fernando de Rojas
E180248
Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish Renaissance writer best known as the author of the influential tragicomedy "La Celestina," a foundational work of Spanish literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fernando de Rojas canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1563305 — 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: Fernando de Rojas Context triple: [Spanish Renaissance, notableAuthor, Fernando de Rojas]
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A.
Diego de Montemayor
Diego de Montemayor was a Spanish conquistador and colonial official best known as the 16th-century founder and first leader of the city of Monterrey in present-day Mexico.
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B.
Juan Ruiz de Cabañas
Juan Ruiz de Cabañas was a Spanish-born Catholic bishop and philanthropist best known for founding the Hospicio Cabañas, a major charitable institution in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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C.
Juan Ruiz de Apodaca
Juan Ruiz de Apodaca was a Spanish naval officer and colonial administrator who served as viceroy of New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, leading efforts to suppress the insurgent movement.
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D.
Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega was a seminal 16th-century Spanish poet whose adaptation of Italianate forms and themes helped shape the lyric poetry of the Spanish Renaissance.
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E.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright best known as the author of the classic novel "Don Quixote," often regarded as one of the greatest works of Western literature.
- 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: Fernando de Rojas Target entity description: Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish Renaissance writer best known as the author of the influential tragicomedy "La Celestina," a foundational work of Spanish literature.
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A.
Diego de Montemayor
Diego de Montemayor was a Spanish conquistador and colonial official best known as the 16th-century founder and first leader of the city of Monterrey in present-day Mexico.
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B.
Juan Ruiz de Cabañas
Juan Ruiz de Cabañas was a Spanish-born Catholic bishop and philanthropist best known for founding the Hospicio Cabañas, a major charitable institution in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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C.
Juan Ruiz de Apodaca
Juan Ruiz de Apodaca was a Spanish naval officer and colonial administrator who served as viceroy of New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, leading efforts to suppress the insurgent movement.
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D.
Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega was a seminal 16th-century Spanish poet whose adaptation of Italianate forms and themes helped shape the lyric poetry of the Spanish Renaissance.
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E.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright best known as the author of the classic novel "Don Quixote," often regarded as one of the greatest works of Western literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Renaissance writer
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Spanish writer ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
15th century
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16th century ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Crown of Castile
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La Puebla de Montalbán ⓘ Province of Toledo ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| canonization | foundational author of Spanish literature ⓘ |
| citizenship | Crown of Castile ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Crown of Castile
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Province of Toledo ⓘ Spain ⓘ Talavera de la Reina ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Salamanca ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| genre | tragicomedy ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | converso ⓘ |
| influenced |
European Renaissance literature
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Spanish Golden Age literature ⓘ Spanish drama ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
humanism
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medieval Spanish literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryForm |
dialogue
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dramatic prose ⓘ |
| movement |
Renaissance literature
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Spanish Renaissance ⓘ |
| name | Fernando de Rojas ⓘ |
| nationality | Spanish ⓘ |
| notableFor | authorship of La Celestina ⓘ |
| notableWork | La Celestina ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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mayor ⓘ playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | alcalde of Talavera de la Reina ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| subjectOf | studies in Spanish philology ⓘ |
| work | La Celestina ⓘ |
| workLocation | Talavera de la Reina ⓘ |
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: Fernando de Rojas Description of subject: Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish Renaissance writer best known as the author of the influential tragicomedy "La Celestina," a foundational work of Spanish literature.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.