Old Regime in Spain

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The Old Regime in Spain refers to the pre-19th-century monarchical and social order characterized by absolute royal authority, a rigid estate system, and the dominance of noble and clerical elites.

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Label	Occurrences
Ancien Régime in Spain	5
early modern Spain	5
Bourbon monarchy in Spain	2
Counter-Reformation Spain	2
Early Modern Spain	1
Early modern Spain	1
Iberian absolutism	1
Old Regime in Spain canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12409556 — 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: Old Regime in Spain
Context triple: [Enríquez de Toledo, historicalAssociation, Old Regime in Spain]

A. Regency of Spain
The Regency of Spain was a provisional governing authority that ruled the country during periods when the monarch was absent, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to exercise royal power.
B. Restoration Spain
Restoration Spain was the period of Spanish history from 1874 to 1931 marked by the restored Bourbon monarchy, a constitutional system dominated by alternating conservative and liberal parties, and growing social and political tensions that culminated in the Second Republic.
C. Old Regime in Portugal
The Old Regime in Portugal was the pre-liberal monarchical and aristocratic social, political, and economic order that dominated the country until the early 19th-century constitutional and liberal revolutions.
D. Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización)
The Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización) was a series of 19th-century liberal reforms that expropriated and sold off Church and monastic properties to reduce ecclesiastical power and raise state revenue.
E. Bourbon Spain
Bourbon Spain was the early 18th-century Spanish monarchy under the French-origin Bourbon dynasty, marked by centralizing reforms and involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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: Old Regime in Spain
Target entity description: The Old Regime in Spain refers to the pre-19th-century monarchical and social order characterized by absolute royal authority, a rigid estate system, and the dominance of noble and clerical elites.

A. Regency of Spain
The Regency of Spain was a provisional governing authority that ruled the country during periods when the monarch was absent, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to exercise royal power.
B. Restoration Spain
Restoration Spain was the period of Spanish history from 1874 to 1931 marked by the restored Bourbon monarchy, a constitutional system dominated by alternating conservative and liberal parties, and growing social and political tensions that culminated in the Second Republic.
C. Old Regime in Portugal
The Old Regime in Portugal was the pre-liberal monarchical and aristocratic social, political, and economic order that dominated the country until the early 19th-century constitutional and liberal revolutions.
D. Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización)
The Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización) was a series of 19th-century liberal reforms that expropriated and sold off Church and monastic properties to reduce ecclesiastical power and raise state revenue.
E. Bourbon Spain
Bourbon Spain was the early 18th-century Spanish monarchy under the French-origin Bourbon dynasty, marked by centralizing reforms and involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession.
F. None of above. chosen