Calixto García
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Calixto García was a prominent Cuban general and revolutionary leader who played a major role in Cuba’s 19th-century wars for independence from Spain.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calixto García canonical | 8 |
| Calixto García Íñiguez | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T358109 — 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: Calixto García Context triple: [Cuban War of Independence, keyFigure, Calixto García]
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A.
José Antonio Echeverría
José Antonio Echeverría was a prominent Cuban student leader and revolutionary figure known for his opposition to the Batista dictatorship and his role in the Cuban revolutionary movement of the 1950s.
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B.
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia was a Spanish diplomat, historian, and nobleman who served in various high-ranking diplomatic posts for Spain around the turn of the 20th century.
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C.
Venustiano Carranza
Venustiano Carranza is a borough (delegación) of Mexico City known for encompassing part of the city’s international airport and several major transportation hubs.
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D.
Álvaro Obregón
Álvaro Obregón is a borough (alcaldía) in the southwest of Mexico City known for its mixed residential and commercial areas, hilly terrain, and important transportation routes.
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E.
Francisco González Bocanegra
Francisco González Bocanegra was a 19th-century Mexican poet best known for writing the lyrics of Mexico’s national anthem.
- 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: Calixto García Target entity description: Calixto García was a prominent Cuban general and revolutionary leader who played a major role in Cuba’s 19th-century wars for independence from Spain.
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A.
José Antonio Echeverría
José Antonio Echeverría was a prominent Cuban student leader and revolutionary figure known for his opposition to the Batista dictatorship and his role in the Cuban revolutionary movement of the 1950s.
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B.
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia was a Spanish diplomat, historian, and nobleman who served in various high-ranking diplomatic posts for Spain around the turn of the 20th century.
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C.
Venustiano Carranza
Venustiano Carranza is a borough (delegación) of Mexico City known for encompassing part of the city’s international airport and several major transportation hubs.
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D.
Álvaro Obregón
Álvaro Obregón is a borough (alcaldía) in the southwest of Mexico City known for its mixed residential and commercial areas, hilly terrain, and important transportation routes.
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E.
Francisco González Bocanegra
Francisco González Bocanegra was a 19th-century Mexican poet best known for writing the lyrics of Mexico’s national anthem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cuban revolutionary
ⓘ
human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Cementerio de Colón
ⓘ
linked to:
Colón Cemetery
Havana ⓘ
linked to:
Havana, Cuba
|
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Captaincy General of Cuba
ⓘ
Cuba ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1839-08-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1898-12-11 ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Cuban ⓘ |
| familyName | García ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military strategy
ⓘ
revolutionary warfare ⓘ |
| givenName | Calixto ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
revolutionary leader
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| hasPart |
military expeditions in eastern Cuba
ⓘ
service as a general in the Cuban Liberation Army ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Calixto García Íñiguez Municipality (named in his honor) ⓘ |
| honorificAfter |
Calixto García Íñiguez Airport
ⓘ
Parque Calixto García ⓘ
linked to:
Céspedes Park
|
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| movement |
Cuban independence movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Cuban War of Independence
|
| namedAfter | Calixto García Íñiguez Airport ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempted suicide to avoid capture by Spanish forces
ⓘ
coordination with U.S. forces during the Spanish–American War ⓘ leadership in Cuba's wars of independence from Spain ⓘ |
| notableWork | military campaigns for Cuban independence ⓘ |
| opponent | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Cuban War of 1895–1898
ⓘ
linked to:
Cuban War of Independence
Cuban War of Independence ⓘ Little War ⓘ Ten Years' War ⓘ |
| partOf | Cuban Liberation Army ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Captaincy General of Cuba
ⓘ
Holguín ⓘ
linked to:
Holguín, Cuba
|
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Cuban nationalism ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Cuba ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | role in the siege of Santiago de Cuba (1898) ⓘ |
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: Calixto García Description of subject: Calixto García was a prominent Cuban general and revolutionary leader who played a major role in Cuba’s 19th-century wars for independence from Spain.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Calixto García Íñiguez Municipality (named in his honor)
linked to: Calixto García
subject linked to:
Calixto García Íñiguez Municipality (named in his honor)
linked to: Calixto García
linked to: Calixto García