1507 world map
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The 1507 world map is a pioneering early 16th-century map by Martin Waldseemüller, famous for being the first known map to use the name "America" for the New World.
All labels observed (1)
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| 1507 world map canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3716392 — 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: 1507 world map Context triple: [Martin Waldseemüller, notableWork, 1507 world map]
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A.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula (world map)
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula is a richly decorated 17th-century world map renowned as one of the masterpieces of Dutch Golden Age cartography.
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B.
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is a pioneering 16th-century world atlas by Abraham Ortelius, often regarded as the first modern atlas for systematically compiling uniform maps of the known world.
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C.
Mercator–Hondius atlas
The Mercator–Hondius atlas is a landmark early 17th-century world atlas that combined and expanded Gerardus Mercator’s pioneering cartographic work under the publishing direction of Jodocus Hondius, becoming one of the most influential map collections of the Dutch Golden Age.
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D.
Waghenaer’s sea atlases
Waghenaer’s sea atlases are pioneering late-16th-century Dutch nautical chart books that revolutionized maritime navigation and helped establish the Netherlands as a leading seafaring and cartographic power.
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E.
Gallery of Maps
The Gallery of Maps is a grand corridor in the Vatican Museums renowned for its 16th-century topographical frescoes depicting detailed maps of the Italian peninsula.
- 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: 1507 world map Target entity description: The 1507 world map is a pioneering early 16th-century map by Martin Waldseemüller, famous for being the first known map to use the name "America" for the New World.
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A.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula (world map)
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula is a richly decorated 17th-century world map renowned as one of the masterpieces of Dutch Golden Age cartography.
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B.
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is a pioneering 16th-century world atlas by Abraham Ortelius, often regarded as the first modern atlas for systematically compiling uniform maps of the known world.
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C.
Mercator–Hondius atlas
The Mercator–Hondius atlas is a landmark early 17th-century world atlas that combined and expanded Gerardus Mercator’s pioneering cartographic work under the publishing direction of Jodocus Hondius, becoming one of the most influential map collections of the Dutch Golden Age.
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D.
Waghenaer’s sea atlases
Waghenaer’s sea atlases are pioneering late-16th-century Dutch nautical chart books that revolutionized maritime navigation and helped establish the Netherlands as a leading seafaring and cartographic power.
-
E.
Gallery of Maps
The Gallery of Maps is a grand corridor in the Vatican Museums renowned for its 16th-century topographical frescoes depicting detailed maps of the Italian peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: 1507 world map Description of subject: The 1507 world map is a pioneering early 16th-century map by Martin Waldseemüller, famous for being the first known map to use the name "America" for the New World.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.