Alcántara, Spain
E702635
Alcántara, Spain is a historic town in western Spain near the Portuguese border, renowned for its monumental Roman bridge over the Tagus River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alcántara, Cáceres | 2 |
| Alcántara (Spain) | 1 |
| Alcántara, Spain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7986099 — 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: Alcántara, Spain Context triple: [Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, twinTown, Alcántara, Spain]
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A.
San Ildefonso, Spain
San Ildefonso, Spain is a historic town in the province of Segovia, best known for the royal palace and gardens of La Granja, a former summer residence of Spanish monarchs.
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B.
Zamora, Spain
Zamora, Spain is a historic city in the Castile and León region known for its remarkably well-preserved Romanesque architecture and medieval city walls.
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C.
Albolote, Spain
Albolote is a municipality in the province of Granada in southern Spain, known for its proximity to the city of Granada and its mix of residential, agricultural, and industrial areas.
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D.
Rota, Spain
Rota, Spain is a coastal town in the province of Cádiz that hosts a major Spanish–U.S. naval base and serves as a strategic military and maritime hub.
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E.
Zizur Mayor, Spain
Zizur Mayor, Spain is a town in the Navarre region known as the birthplace of professional footballer César Azpilicueta.
- 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: Alcántara, Spain Target entity description: Alcántara, Spain is a historic town in western Spain near the Portuguese border, renowned for its monumental Roman bridge over the Tagus River.
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A.
San Ildefonso, Spain
San Ildefonso, Spain is a historic town in the province of Segovia, best known for the royal palace and gardens of La Granja, a former summer residence of Spanish monarchs.
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B.
Zamora, Spain
Zamora, Spain is a historic city in the Castile and León region known for its remarkably well-preserved Romanesque architecture and medieval city walls.
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C.
Albolote, Spain
Albolote is a municipality in the province of Granada in southern Spain, known for its proximity to the city of Granada and its mix of residential, agricultural, and industrial areas.
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D.
Rota, Spain
Rota, Spain is a coastal town in the province of Cádiz that hosts a major Spanish–U.S. naval base and serves as a strategic military and maritime hub.
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E.
Zizur Mayor, Spain
Zizur Mayor, Spain is a town in the Navarre region known as the birthplace of professional footballer César Azpilicueta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| bridge |
Alcántara Bridge
ⓘ
linked to:
Puente de Alcántara
|
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| crossedBy | Tagus River ⓘ |
| economy |
agriculture
ⓘ
livestock farming ⓘ rural tourism ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage |
Roman archaeology
ⓘ
medieval architecture ⓘ |
| hasFestival | local religious festivals ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Alcántara Bridge
ⓘ
linked to:
Puente de Alcántara
|
| hasNearbyInfrastructure | Alcántara Dam ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 10980 ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding |
Convent of San Benito
ⓘ
linked to:
Convent of San Benito de Alcántara
|
| hasStructure |
historic churches
ⓘ
medieval fortifications ⓘ |
| heritage | historic town ⓘ |
| knownFor | Roman bridge over the Tagus River ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
autonomous community of Extremadura
ⓘ
linked to:
Extremadura
province of Cáceres ⓘ
linked to:
Province of Cáceres
western Spain ⓘ |
| locatedNear | border of Portugal ⓘ |
| locatedOn | right bank of the Tagus River ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | derived from Arabic al-Qanṭarah meaning the bridge ⓘ |
| region | comarca of Tajo-Salor ⓘ |
| river |
Tagus
ⓘ
linked to:
Tagus River
|
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
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: Alcántara, Spain Description of subject: Alcántara, Spain is a historic town in western Spain near the Portuguese border, renowned for its monumental Roman bridge over the Tagus River.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alcántara, Spain
linked to: Alcántara, Spain
linked to: Alcántara, Spain