Maria of Castile
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Maria of Castile was a 15th-century queen consort of Aragon and Naples, noted for governing Aragon as regent during her husband Alfonso V’s long absences in Italy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maria of Castile canonical | 7 |
| Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon | 3 |
| Maria of Aragon, Queen of Castile | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3076302 — 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: Maria of Castile Context triple: [Alfonso V of Aragon, spouse, Maria of Castile]
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Joanna of Castile
Joanna of Castile, also known as Joanna the Mad, was a queen of Castile and Aragon whose reign marked the dynastic union that led to a unified Spain, though she spent much of her life confined due to alleged mental illness.
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Maria of Spain
Maria of Spain was a 16th-century Spanish infanta and Holy Roman Empress, the daughter of Charles V and Isabella of Portugal and wife of Emperor Maximilian II.
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Berengaria of Navarre
Berengaria of Navarre was a medieval queen consort of England, known as the wife of King Richard the Lionheart and for never having set foot in England during his reign.
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Maria of Aragon
Maria of Aragon was a 15th-century Queen of Castile, daughter of King Ferdinand I of Aragon and consort of King John II of Castile.
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Isabella I of Castile
Isabella I of Castile was the late 15th-century queen of Castile and León who, alongside her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon, completed the Reconquista, sponsored Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage, and centralized royal power in what became a unified Spain.
- 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: Maria of Castile Target entity description: Maria of Castile was a 15th-century queen consort of Aragon and Naples, noted for governing Aragon as regent during her husband Alfonso V’s long absences in Italy.
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A.
Joanna of Castile
Joanna of Castile, also known as Joanna the Mad, was a queen of Castile and Aragon whose reign marked the dynastic union that led to a unified Spain, though she spent much of her life confined due to alleged mental illness.
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B.
Maria of Spain
Maria of Spain was a 16th-century Spanish infanta and Holy Roman Empress, the daughter of Charles V and Isabella of Portugal and wife of Emperor Maximilian II.
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C.
Berengaria of Navarre
Berengaria of Navarre was a medieval queen consort of England, known as the wife of King Richard the Lionheart and for never having set foot in England during his reign.
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Maria of Aragon
Maria of Aragon was a 15th-century Queen of Castile, daughter of King Ferdinand I of Aragon and consort of King John II of Castile.
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Isabella I of Castile
Isabella I of Castile was the late 15th-century queen of Castile and León who, alongside her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon, completed the Reconquista, sponsored Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage, and centralized royal power in what became a unified Spain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Maria of Castile Description of subject: Maria of Castile was a 15th-century queen consort of Aragon and Naples, noted for governing Aragon as regent during her husband Alfonso V’s long absences in Italy.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Catherine of Castile, Princess of Asturias
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Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon
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