Pedro de Bobadilla
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Pedro de Bobadilla was a Spanish nobleman and colonial official known for serving as the first governor of Paraguay in the early 16th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pedro de Bobadilla canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6454311 — 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: Pedro de Bobadilla Context triple: [Bobadilla, hasNotableBearer, Pedro de Bobadilla]
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A.
José de Bobadilla
José de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial official and governor active in the early 18th century, known for his administrative role in the Americas.
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B.
Andrés de Bobadilla
Andrés de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial official who served as governor of Cuba in the early 16th century.
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C.
Juan Bobadilla
Juan Bobadilla is a notable individual who carries the Bobadilla surname, recognized as a distinguished bearer of this family name.
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D.
Francisco de Bobadilla
Francisco de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial administrator and royal commissioner best known for arresting Christopher Columbus and briefly serving as governor of Hispaniola in the early 16th century.
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E.
Juan de Grijalva
Juan de Grijalva was a Spanish conquistador and explorer known for leading one of the first European expeditions to the coasts of present-day Mexico in the early 16th century.
- 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: Pedro de Bobadilla Target entity description: Pedro de Bobadilla was a Spanish nobleman and colonial official known for serving as the first governor of Paraguay in the early 16th century.
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A.
José de Bobadilla
José de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial official and governor active in the early 18th century, known for his administrative role in the Americas.
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B.
Andrés de Bobadilla
Andrés de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial official who served as governor of Cuba in the early 16th century.
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C.
Juan Bobadilla
Juan Bobadilla is a notable individual who carries the Bobadilla surname, recognized as a distinguished bearer of this family name.
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D.
Francisco de Bobadilla
Francisco de Bobadilla was a Spanish colonial administrator and royal commissioner best known for arresting Christopher Columbus and briefly serving as governor of Hispaniola in the early 16th century.
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E.
Juan de Grijalva
Juan de Grijalva was a Spanish conquistador and explorer known for leading one of the first European expeditions to the coasts of present-day Mexico in the early 16th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish nobleman
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colonial official ⓘ human ⓘ |
| continentOfGovernedTerritory | South America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Crown of Castile ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spaniards ⓘ |
| governedTerritory | Paraguay ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| nobleTitleCountry | Spain ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first governor of Paraguay ⓘ |
| occupation | colonial administrator ⓘ |
| partOf | Spanish colonial administration in South America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
first governor of Paraguay
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governor of Paraguay ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 16th 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: Pedro de Bobadilla Description of subject: Pedro de Bobadilla was a Spanish nobleman and colonial official known for serving as the first governor of Paraguay in the early 16th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.