Torre da Carraca
E425754
Torre da Carraca is one of the historic bell towers of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, notable for housing the cathedral’s famous “Carraca” noisemaker used in Holy Week rituals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Torre da Carraca canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4261543 — 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: Torre da Carraca Context triple: [Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, hasTower, Torre da Carraca]
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A.
Torre de Moncorvo
Torre de Moncorvo is a historic municipality in northeastern Portugal, known for its medieval architecture, iron ore mining heritage, and location in the Douro wine region.
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B.
Tavira Tower
Tavira Tower is an 18th-century watchtower in Cádiz, Spain, best known for its historic role as a lookout point and for housing a popular camera obscura offering panoramic views of the city.
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C.
Belém Tower
Belém Tower is a 16th-century fortified tower in Lisbon, Portugal, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned as a symbol of the Age of Discoveries.
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D.
Castelo de Tavira
Castelo de Tavira is a historic medieval castle in the town of Tavira in Portugal’s Algarve region, known for its preserved walls, towers, and panoramic views over the city.
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E.
Fortress of Sagres
The Fortress of Sagres is a historic coastal stronghold in Portugal’s Algarve region, long associated with maritime exploration and the legacy of Prince Henry the Navigator.
- 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: Torre da Carraca Target entity description: Torre da Carraca is one of the historic bell towers of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, notable for housing the cathedral’s famous “Carraca” noisemaker used in Holy Week rituals.
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A.
Torre de Moncorvo
Torre de Moncorvo is a historic municipality in northeastern Portugal, known for its medieval architecture, iron ore mining heritage, and location in the Douro wine region.
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B.
Tavira Tower
Tavira Tower is an 18th-century watchtower in Cádiz, Spain, best known for its historic role as a lookout point and for housing a popular camera obscura offering panoramic views of the city.
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C.
Belém Tower
Belém Tower is a 16th-century fortified tower in Lisbon, Portugal, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned as a symbol of the Age of Discoveries.
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D.
Castelo de Tavira
Castelo de Tavira is a historic medieval castle in the town of Tavira in Portugal’s Algarve region, known for its preserved walls, towers, and panoramic views over the city.
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E.
Fortress of Sagres
The Fortress of Sagres is a historic coastal stronghold in Portugal’s Algarve region, long associated with maritime exploration and the legacy of Prince Henry the Navigator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architectural structure
ⓘ
bell tower ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Carraca noisemaker
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Holy Week traditions in Santiago de Compostela ⓘ Santiago de Compostela Cathedral liturgy ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | part of the ritual soundscape of Holy Week in Santiago de Compostela ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
bell tower
ⓘ
liturgical use ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after the Carraca noisemaker it houses ⓘ |
| heritageContext | historic tower of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Galicia
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Santiago de Compostela ⓘ Santiago de Compostela Cathedral ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| notableFor | housing the cathedral’s Carraca noisemaker ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
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| usedDuring | Holy Week ⓘ |
| usedFor | Holy Week rituals ⓘ |
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: Torre da Carraca Description of subject: Torre da Carraca is one of the historic bell towers of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, notable for housing the cathedral’s famous “Carraca” noisemaker used in Holy Week rituals.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.