Upper Peru
E71842
Upper Peru was the colonial-era Spanish administrative region in South America that roughly corresponds to modern-day Bolivia.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Upper Peru canonical | 51 |
| Upper Peru (Bolivia) | 1 |
| Upper Peru (partly) | 1 |
| Upper Peru (present-day Bolivia) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560006 — 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: Upper Peru Context triple: [Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, containsTerritory, Upper Peru]
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A.
Collasuyu
Collasuyu was the southeastern quarter of the Inca Empire, encompassing the highland and lowland regions around Lake Titicaca and extending into parts of present-day Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
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B.
Chinchaysuyu
Chinchaysuyu was the northwestern quarter of the Inca Empire, encompassing coastal and highland regions that are now parts of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.
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C.
Andacollo
Andacollo is a small mining town and municipality in Chile’s Coquimbo Region, known for its copper deposits and the religious shrine of the Virgin of Andacollo.
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D.
Andes cultural area
The Andes cultural area is a pre-Columbian cultural region of western South America encompassing the diverse ancient civilizations that developed along the Andean mountain chain, including coastal and highland societies such as the Paracas culture.
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E.
Cuntisuyu
Cuntisuyu was one of the four main administrative and territorial divisions of the Inca Empire, located to the southwest of Cusco.
- 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: Upper Peru Target entity description: Upper Peru was the colonial-era Spanish administrative region in South America that roughly corresponds to modern-day Bolivia.
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A.
Collasuyu
Collasuyu was the southeastern quarter of the Inca Empire, encompassing the highland and lowland regions around Lake Titicaca and extending into parts of present-day Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
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B.
Chinchaysuyu
Chinchaysuyu was the northwestern quarter of the Inca Empire, encompassing coastal and highland regions that are now parts of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.
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C.
Andacollo
Andacollo is a small mining town and municipality in Chile’s Coquimbo Region, known for its copper deposits and the religious shrine of the Virgin of Andacollo.
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D.
Andes cultural area
The Andes cultural area is a pre-Columbian cultural region of western South America encompassing the diverse ancient civilizations that developed along the Andean mountain chain, including coastal and highland societies such as the Paracas culture.
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E.
Cuntisuyu
Cuntisuyu was one of the four main administrative and territorial divisions of the Inca Empire, located to the southwest of Cusco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Upper Peru Description of subject: Upper Peru was the colonial-era Spanish administrative region in South America that roughly corresponds to modern-day Bolivia.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Upper Peru
linked to: Upper Peru
subject linked to:
José María Paz (as junior officer)
subject linked to:
Battle of Suipacha, 7 November 1810
subject linked to:
Battle of Huaqui, 20 June 1811
linked to: Upper Peru
subject linked to:
city of Charcas (La Plata / Chuquisaca)