José Toral y Velázquez
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José Toral y Velázquez was a Spanish general best known for leading Spanish forces in the defense of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| José Toral y Velázquez canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1238761 — 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 Toral y Velázquez Context triple: [Battle of San Juan Hill, commander, José Toral y Velázquez]
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A.
Joaquín de la Pezuela
Joaquín de la Pezuela was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator who served as Viceroy of Peru and led royalist forces against independence movements in South America.
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B.
Félix María Calleja
Félix María Calleja was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain known for leading harsh royalist campaigns to suppress the Mexican War of Independence.
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C.
Simón de Anda y Salazar
Simón de Anda y Salazar was an 18th-century Spanish colonial official who became acting Governor-General of the Philippines and led the resistance against the British during their 1762–1764 occupation of Manila.
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D.
José Fernando de Abascal
José Fernando de Abascal was a Spanish colonial administrator and Viceroy of Peru who became a leading royalist figure in suppressing independence movements in South America in the early 19th century.
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E.
Francisco Javier de Elío
Francisco Javier de Elío was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator best known for serving as the final viceroy of the Río de la Plata during the turbulent period of the Spanish American wars of independence.
- 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 Toral y Velázquez Target entity description: José Toral y Velázquez was a Spanish general best known for leading Spanish forces in the defense of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.
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A.
Joaquín de la Pezuela
Joaquín de la Pezuela was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator who served as Viceroy of Peru and led royalist forces against independence movements in South America.
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B.
Félix María Calleja
Félix María Calleja was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain known for leading harsh royalist campaigns to suppress the Mexican War of Independence.
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C.
Simón de Anda y Salazar
Simón de Anda y Salazar was an 18th-century Spanish colonial official who became acting Governor-General of the Philippines and led the resistance against the British during their 1762–1764 occupation of Manila.
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D.
José Fernando de Abascal
José Fernando de Abascal was a Spanish colonial administrator and Viceroy of Peru who became a leading royalist figure in suppressing independence movements in South America in the early 19th century.
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E.
Francisco Javier de Elío
Francisco Javier de Elío was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator best known for serving as the final viceroy of the Río de la Plata during the turbulent period of the Spanish American wars of independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish Army officer
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general ⓘ human ⓘ |
| conflict | Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Spanish people ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Spanish Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| movement | Spanish colonial military in Cuba ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
siege of Santiago de Cuba
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linked to:
Siege of Santiago
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| notableFor | defense of Santiago de Cuba ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Spanish forces in Cuba
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linked to:
Spanish Army in Cuba
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| placeOfActivity | Cuba ⓘ |
| role | commander of Spanish forces at Santiago de Cuba ⓘ |
| surrenderedTo | United States forces at Santiago de Cuba ⓘ |
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 Toral y Velázquez Description of subject: José Toral y Velázquez was a Spanish general best known for leading Spanish forces in the defense of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.