Cora
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The Cora are an Indigenous people of Mexico, primarily living in the Sierra del Nayar region of Nayarit and neighboring states, known for their distinct language, traditional religious practices, and rich ceremonial culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cora canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13427725 — 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: Cora Context triple: [San Francisco Cora, ethnicGroup, Cora]
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A.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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B.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
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C.
Cora Hudson
Cora Hudson is a supporting character on the sitcom "Mork & Mindy," known as Mindy’s warm, down-to-earth grandmother.
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D.
Cora Randall
Cora Randall is the enslaved young woman who becomes the central protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s novel "The Underground Railroad," embarking on a perilous journey to escape bondage through a reimagined subterranean rail system.
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E.
Cora Williams
Cora Williams was an actress known for her role in the silent-era film "The Marriage Clause."
- 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: Cora Target entity description: The Cora are an Indigenous people of Mexico, primarily living in the Sierra del Nayar region of Nayarit and neighboring states, known for their distinct language, traditional religious practices, and rich ceremonial culture.
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A.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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B.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
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C.
Cora Hudson
Cora Hudson is a supporting character on the sitcom "Mork & Mindy," known as Mindy’s warm, down-to-earth grandmother.
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D.
Cora Randall
Cora Randall is the enslaved young woman who becomes the central protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s novel "The Underground Railroad," embarking on a perilous journey to escape bondage through a reimagined subterranean rail system.
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E.
Cora Williams
Cora Williams was an actress known for her role in the silent-era film "The Marriage Clause."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people
ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ |
| ceremonialCulture |
complex ritual calendar
ⓘ
elaborate dances ⓘ music and chanting ⓘ use of ritual masks ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| governedBy | traditional community authorities ⓘ |
| hasAutonym | Náayeri ⓘ |
| historicalContactWith | Spanish colonizers ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | resistance to Spanish colonial rule ⓘ |
| language | Cora language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Uto-Aztecan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Uto-Aztecan
|
| locatedIn | Western Mexico ⓘ |
| neighboringState |
Durango
ⓘ
Jalisco ⓘ Zacatecas ⓘ |
| primaryLocation |
Sierra del Nayar
ⓘ
state of Nayarit ⓘ
linked to:
State of Nayarit
|
| recognizedAs | Indigenous people of Mexico ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Huichol
ⓘ
Mexicanero ⓘ Tepehuán ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
traditional Cora religion ⓘ |
| religiousPractice | syncretic rituals combining Indigenous and Catholic elements ⓘ |
| traditionalCraft |
basketry
ⓘ
beadwork ⓘ embroidery ⓘ textile weaving ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy |
bean cultivation
ⓘ
livestock raising ⓘ maize cultivation ⓘ squash cultivation ⓘ subsistence agriculture ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory | Sierra Madre Occidental ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Latin alphabet (for Cora language) ⓘ |
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: Cora Description of subject: The Cora are an Indigenous people of Mexico, primarily living in the Sierra del Nayar region of Nayarit and neighboring states, known for their distinct language, traditional religious practices, and rich ceremonial culture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.