Alonso de Mendoza
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Alonso de Mendoza was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador best known for founding the city of La Paz in present-day Bolivia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alonso de Mendoza canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1617348 — 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: Alonso de Mendoza Context triple: [La Paz, foundedBy, Alonso de Mendoza]
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A.
Antonio de Mendoza
Antonio de Mendoza was a 16th-century Spanish colonial administrator who became the first viceroy of New Spain, overseeing the early consolidation and governance of Spain’s American territories.
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B.
Alonso Fernández de Lugo
Alonso Fernández de Lugo was a late 15th-century Spanish conquistador best known for leading the conquest of the Canary Islands for the Crown of Castile.
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C.
García Hurtado de Mendoza
García Hurtado de Mendoza was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador and colonial governor known for his role in consolidating Spanish control over Chile during the Arauco War.
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D.
Jerónimo de Loayza
Jerónimo de Loayza was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican friar who became the first bishop and later archbishop of Lima, playing a key role in establishing the Catholic Church in colonial Peru.
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E.
Gómez de Alvarado
Gómez de Alvarado was a Spanish conquistador of the early 16th century who participated in the campaigns of conquest in Central America.
- 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: Alonso de Mendoza Target entity description: Alonso de Mendoza was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador best known for founding the city of La Paz in present-day Bolivia.
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A.
Antonio de Mendoza
Antonio de Mendoza was a 16th-century Spanish colonial administrator who became the first viceroy of New Spain, overseeing the early consolidation and governance of Spain’s American territories.
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B.
Alonso Fernández de Lugo
Alonso Fernández de Lugo was a late 15th-century Spanish conquistador best known for leading the conquest of the Canary Islands for the Crown of Castile.
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C.
García Hurtado de Mendoza
García Hurtado de Mendoza was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador and colonial governor known for his role in consolidating Spanish control over Chile during the Arauco War.
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D.
Jerónimo de Loayza
Jerónimo de Loayza was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican friar who became the first bishop and later archbishop of Lima, playing a key role in establishing the Catholic Church in colonial Peru.
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E.
Gómez de Alvarado
Gómez de Alvarado was a Spanish conquistador of the early 16th century who participated in the campaigns of conquest in Central America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish conquistador
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human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Pedro de la Gasca ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Crown of Castile ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1471 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1549 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spanish ⓘ |
| founded | La Paz ⓘ |
| foundedCityInHonorOf | Spanish victory over Gonzalo Pizarro ⓘ |
| foundingDateOfLaPaz | 20 October 1548 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| name | Alonso de Mendoza ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding the city of La Paz ⓘ |
| occupation | conquistador ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
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civil wars in Peru ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Viceroyalty of Peru
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present-day Bolivia ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Crown of Castile
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Cáceres ⓘ Extremadura ⓘ Garrovillas de Alconétar ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | La Paz ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founder and first organizer of La Paz ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Francisco Pizarro
ⓘ
Pedro de la Gasca ⓘ |
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: Alonso de Mendoza Description of subject: Alonso de Mendoza was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador best known for founding the city of La Paz in present-day Bolivia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.