María de Peñalosa
E583605
María de Peñalosa was a Spanish noblewoman best known as the wife of explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, linking her to the early era of Spanish conquest in the Americas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| María de Peñalosa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6206912 — 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: María de Peñalosa Context triple: [Vasco Núñez de Balboa, spouse, María de Peñalosa]
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A.
Teresa di Blasco
Teresa di Blasco was the wife of Italian Enlightenment jurist and philosopher Cesare Beccaria, known for his pioneering work on criminal justice reform.
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B.
Ana de Velasco y Girón
Ana de Velasco y Girón was a Spanish noblewoman of the powerful Velasco and Girón families who became Duchess of Braganza and the mother of John IV, the first king of the Portuguese Restoration.
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C.
Catalina de Salazar y Palacios
Catalina de Salazar y Palacios was a Spanish woman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries best known as the wife of the writer Miguel de Cervantes.
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D.
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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E.
María Rosa Urraca Pastor
María Rosa Urraca Pastor was a prominent Spanish Falangist activist and propagandist who became one of the leading female figures of the Francoist regime.
- 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: María de Peñalosa Target entity description: María de Peñalosa was a Spanish noblewoman best known as the wife of explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, linking her to the early era of Spanish conquest in the Americas.
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A.
Teresa di Blasco
Teresa di Blasco was the wife of Italian Enlightenment jurist and philosopher Cesare Beccaria, known for his pioneering work on criminal justice reform.
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B.
Ana de Velasco y Girón
Ana de Velasco y Girón was a Spanish noblewoman of the powerful Velasco and Girón families who became Duchess of Braganza and the mother of John IV, the first king of the Portuguese Restoration.
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C.
Catalina de Salazar y Palacios
Catalina de Salazar y Palacios was a Spanish woman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries best known as the wife of the writer Miguel de Cervantes.
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D.
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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E.
María Rosa Urraca Pastor
María Rosa Urraca Pastor was a prominent Spanish Falangist activist and propagandist who became one of the leading female figures of the Francoist regime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Spanish noblewoman ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Spanish conquest of the Americas
ⓘ
linked to:
Spanish colonization of the Americas
early Spanish exploration in the New World ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Crown of Castile ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spaniards ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Vasco Núñez de Balboa ⓘ |
| occupation | noblewoman ⓘ |
| spouse |
María de Peñalosa
ⓘ
Vasco Núñez de Balboa ⓘ |
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: María de Peñalosa Description of subject: María de Peñalosa was a Spanish noblewoman best known as the wife of explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, linking her to the early era of Spanish conquest in the Americas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
María de Peñalosa