Ursula de Veramendi
E550724
Ursula de Veramendi was the Mexican wife of American frontiersman and Alamo defender James Bowie, linking him to a prominent San Antonio Tejano family in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ursula de Veramendi canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5846461 — 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: Ursula de Veramendi Context triple: [James Bowie, spouse, Ursula de Veramendi]
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A.
Tomasa de la Quintana
Tomasa de la Quintana was an Argentine woman of the early 19th century best known as the mother of Remedios de Escalada, the wife of independence leader General José de San Martín.
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B.
Leonor Varela
Leonor Varela is a Chilean actress and model best known internationally for her roles in films such as "Blade II" and the TV miniseries "Cleopatra."
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C.
Beatriz de la Cueva
Beatriz de la Cueva was a 16th-century Spanish noblewoman who briefly served as governor of Guatemala, becoming one of the first women to hold such a position in the Americas.
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D.
Maria de Vellorno
Maria de Vellorno is a character in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "A Sicilian Romance," notable for her role in the tale’s intricate web of passion, intrigue, and family conflict.
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E.
María de los Remedios de Escalada
María de los Remedios de Escalada was an Argentine patriot and the wife of independence leader General José de San Martín, remembered for her support of the South American independence cause.
- 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: Ursula de Veramendi Target entity description: Ursula de Veramendi was the Mexican wife of American frontiersman and Alamo defender James Bowie, linking him to a prominent San Antonio Tejano family in the early 19th century.
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A.
Tomasa de la Quintana
Tomasa de la Quintana was an Argentine woman of the early 19th century best known as the mother of Remedios de Escalada, the wife of independence leader General José de San Martín.
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B.
Leonor Varela
Leonor Varela is a Chilean actress and model best known internationally for her roles in films such as "Blade II" and the TV miniseries "Cleopatra."
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C.
Beatriz de la Cueva
Beatriz de la Cueva was a 16th-century Spanish noblewoman who briefly served as governor of Guatemala, becoming one of the first women to hold such a position in the Americas.
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D.
Maria de Vellorno
Maria de Vellorno is a character in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "A Sicilian Romance," notable for her role in the tale’s intricate web of passion, intrigue, and family conflict.
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E.
María de los Remedios de Escalada
María de los Remedios de Escalada was an Argentine patriot and the wife of independence leader General José de San Martín, remembered for her support of the South American independence cause.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alamo defender James Bowie
ⓘ
linked to:
James Bowie
San Antonio Tejano elite ⓘ San Antonio de Béxar society ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Mexico ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Tejano ⓘ |
| familyName | de Veramendi ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Ursula ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Mexican Texas ⓘ |
| languageContext | Spanish-speaking Tejano community ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married (historical) ⓘ |
| marriageLinkedRegion |
Coahuila y Tejas
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ |
| name | Ursula de Veramendi ⓘ |
| nationality | Mexican ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the Mexican wife of American frontiersman James Bowie
ⓘ
linking James Bowie to a prominent San Antonio Tejano family ⓘ |
| partnerOf | James Bowie ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
San Antonio
ⓘ
San Antonio de Béxar ⓘ |
| region |
Béxar
ⓘ
linked to:
San Antonio de Béxar
|
| relativeByMarriage | James Bowie ⓘ |
| spouse | James Bowie ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | role in events leading up to the Battle of the Alamo ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
frontiersman
ⓘ
land speculator ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Ursula de Veramendi Description of subject: Ursula de Veramendi was the Mexican wife of American frontiersman and Alamo defender James Bowie, linking him to a prominent San Antonio Tejano family in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.