Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia
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Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, was a Spanish nobleman and military commander best known for serving as the overall commander of Spain’s ill-fated Armada against England in 1588.
All labels observed (2)
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| Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia canonical | 9 |
| Duke of Medina Sidonia | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T184603 — 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 Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia Context triple: [Spanish Armada, leader, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia]
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Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, 8th Marquis of Villena
Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, 8th Marquis of Villena, was a prominent Spanish nobleman and statesman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a key role in promoting Spanish language and culture.
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B.
Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
Mateo de Toro y Zambrano was a Chilean military officer and colonial official who briefly led Chile’s first steps toward independence as president of the First Government Junta in 1810.
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Enrico Caterino Davila
Enrico Caterino Davila was a 17th-century Italian historian best known for his influential history of the French Wars of Religion, "Historia delle guerre civili di Francia."
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Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, was a prominent 16th-century Spanish general and statesman renowned for his successful military campaigns in the Low Countries during the Eighty Years' War.
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Cortes of Spain
The Cortes of Spain is the historical name for Spain’s national legislative assembly, which served as the kingdom’s representative parliament responsible for enacting laws and approving major state decisions.
- 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 Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia Target entity description: Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, was a Spanish nobleman and military commander best known for serving as the overall commander of Spain’s ill-fated Armada against England in 1588.
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A.
Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, 8th Marquis of Villena
Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, 8th Marquis of Villena, was a prominent Spanish nobleman and statesman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a key role in promoting Spanish language and culture.
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B.
Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
Mateo de Toro y Zambrano was a Chilean military officer and colonial official who briefly led Chile’s first steps toward independence as president of the First Government Junta in 1810.
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C.
Enrico Caterino Davila
Enrico Caterino Davila was a 17th-century Italian historian best known for his influential history of the French Wars of Religion, "Historia delle guerre civili di Francia."
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D.
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, was a prominent 16th-century Spanish general and statesman renowned for his successful military campaigns in the Low Countries during the Eighty Years' War.
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E.
Cortes of Spain
The Cortes of Spain is the historical name for Spain’s national legislative assembly, which served as the kingdom’s representative parliament responsible for enacting laws and approving major state decisions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia Description of subject: Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, was a Spanish nobleman and military commander best known for serving as the overall commander of Spain’s ill-fated Armada against England in 1588.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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