Castle of La Mota
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The Castle of La Mota is a large, red-brick medieval fortress in Medina del Campo, Spain, renowned for its strategic hilltop location and well-preserved defensive architecture.
All labels observed (1)
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| Castle of La Mota canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6619302 — 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: Castle of La Mota Context triple: [Medina del Campo, hasLandmark, Castle of La Mota]
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Aragonese Castle
Aragonese Castle is a historic medieval fortress perched on a rocky islet off the coast of Ischia in the Bay of Naples, Italy, known for its dramatic views and centuries of strategic and cultural significance.
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B.
Aragonese Castle
Aragonese Castle is a historic medieval fortress in Reggio Calabria, Italy, notable for its strategic coastal position and centuries-long defensive role.
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C.
San Pedro de la Roca Castle
San Pedro de la Roca Castle is a 17th-century Spanish coastal fortress near Santiago de Cuba, renowned for its well-preserved military architecture and strategic position overlooking the Caribbean Sea.
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D.
Castro Marim Castle
Castro Marim Castle is a historic medieval fortress in Portugal’s Algarve region, notable for its strategic hilltop position near the Guadiana River and the Spanish border.
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E.
Gibralfaro Castle
Gibralfaro Castle is a historic Moorish fortress overlooking the city and port of Málaga in southern Spain.
- 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: Castle of La Mota Target entity description: The Castle of La Mota is a large, red-brick medieval fortress in Medina del Campo, Spain, renowned for its strategic hilltop location and well-preserved defensive architecture.
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A.
Aragonese Castle
Aragonese Castle is a historic medieval fortress perched on a rocky islet off the coast of Ischia in the Bay of Naples, Italy, known for its dramatic views and centuries of strategic and cultural significance.
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B.
Aragonese Castle
Aragonese Castle is a historic medieval fortress in Reggio Calabria, Italy, notable for its strategic coastal position and centuries-long defensive role.
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C.
San Pedro de la Roca Castle
San Pedro de la Roca Castle is a 17th-century Spanish coastal fortress near Santiago de Cuba, renowned for its well-preserved military architecture and strategic position overlooking the Caribbean Sea.
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Castro Marim Castle
Castro Marim Castle is a historic medieval fortress in Portugal’s Algarve region, notable for its strategic hilltop position near the Guadiana River and the Spanish border.
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E.
Gibralfaro Castle
Gibralfaro Castle is a historic Moorish fortress overlooking the city and port of Málaga in southern Spain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
castle
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cultural heritage monument ⓘ fortress ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | medieval military architecture ⓘ |
| builtWith | brick construction techniques ⓘ |
| category |
Castles in Castile and León
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Castles in Spain ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| currentUse | museum and cultural venue ⓘ |
| defensiveFeature |
arrow slits
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battlements ⓘ machicolations ⓘ multiple defensive enclosures ⓘ |
| elevation | hill above Medina del Campo ⓘ |
| hasFunction | defensive fortress ⓘ |
| hasPart |
curtain walls
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drawbridge ⓘ gatehouse ⓘ inner ward ⓘ keep ⓘ moat ⓘ outer barbican ⓘ towers ⓘ |
| hasRestoration | 20th-century restoration works ⓘ |
| hasTouristInformationCenter | true ⓘ |
| hasViewOver | Medina del Campo ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Bien de Interés Cultural ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | Spain ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationType | monument ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Castile and León
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Medina del Campo ⓘ Province of Valladolid ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| locatedOn | hilltop ⓘ |
| material | red brick ⓘ |
| municipality | Medina del Campo ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extensive brick fortifications
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strategic hilltop location ⓘ well-preserved defensive architecture ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| operator | Junta de Castilla y León ⓘ |
| ownedBy | public administration of Castile and León ⓘ |
| region | Castile and León ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural events
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historical exhibitions ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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: Castle of La Mota Description of subject: The Castle of La Mota is a large, red-brick medieval fortress in Medina del Campo, Spain, renowned for its strategic hilltop location and well-preserved defensive architecture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.