Demetrio Castillo
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Demetrio Castillo was a Spanish military officer who commanded Spanish forces during the Battle of Las Guasimas in the Spanish–American War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Demetrio Castillo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9211857 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Demetrio Castillo Context triple: [Battle of Las Guasimas, commander, Demetrio Castillo]
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Arsenio Antonio Dominguez Velasco
Arsenio Antonio Dominguez Velasco is a Panamanian diplomat and maritime policy expert who serves as the current head of the United Nations’ specialized agency responsible for regulating international shipping.
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B.
Luis Emilio Gonzalez
Luis Emilio Gonzalez is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his long career and game-winning hit for the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series.
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C.
Arturo Castro
Arturo Castro is a Guatemalan-born actor and comedian known for his roles on shows like Broad City and Narcos, as well as various film and voice performances.
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D.
Avelino Arredondo
Avelino Arredondo is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that fictionalizes the life of the historical Uruguayan assassin who killed President Juan Idiarte Borda.
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E.
Manuel Becerra
Manuel Becerra is a Madrid Metro station serving as an interchange hub on Line 2 and other lines in the eastern part of the city.
- 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: Demetrio Castillo Target entity description: Demetrio Castillo was a Spanish military officer who commanded Spanish forces during the Battle of Las Guasimas in the Spanish–American War.
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A.
Arsenio Antonio Dominguez Velasco
Arsenio Antonio Dominguez Velasco is a Panamanian diplomat and maritime policy expert who serves as the current head of the United Nations’ specialized agency responsible for regulating international shipping.
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B.
Luis Emilio Gonzalez
Luis Emilio Gonzalez is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his long career and game-winning hit for the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series.
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C.
Arturo Castro
Arturo Castro is a Guatemalan-born actor and comedian known for his roles on shows like Broad City and Narcos, as well as various film and voice performances.
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D.
Avelino Arredondo
Avelino Arredondo is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that fictionalizes the life of the historical Uruguayan assassin who killed President Juan Idiarte Borda.
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E.
Manuel Becerra
Manuel Becerra is a Madrid Metro station serving as an interchange hub on Line 2 and other lines in the eastern part of the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military officer
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person ⓘ |
| conflict | Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spanish ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Spanish Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding Spanish forces at the Battle of Las Guasimas ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Las Guasimas
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Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| role | commander of Spanish forces at the Battle of Las Guasimas ⓘ |
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: Demetrio Castillo Description of subject: Demetrio Castillo was a Spanish military officer who commanded Spanish forces during the Battle of Las Guasimas in the Spanish–American War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.