Porfirio Díaz
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Porfirio Díaz was a Mexican military leader and long-serving president whose authoritarian rule and modernization policies defined Mexico’s late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Porfirio Díaz canonical | 24 |
| José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1958975 — 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: Porfirio Díaz Context triple: [Angel of Independence, openedBy, Porfirio Díaz]
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A.
Anastasio Bustamante
Anastasio Bustamante was a 19th-century Mexican military leader and conservative politician who served multiple terms as president during the turbulent early years of independent Mexico.
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B.
Vicente Pérez Rosales
Vicente Pérez Rosales was a 19th-century Chilean politician, colonization agent, and writer who played a key role in promoting European settlement and development in southern Chile.
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C.
Calixto García
Calixto García was a prominent Cuban general and revolutionary leader who played a major role in Cuba’s 19th-century wars for independence from Spain.
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D.
Benito Juárez
Benito Juárez was a 19th-century Mexican lawyer and statesman who served multiple terms as president and is renowned for his liberal reforms and defense of national sovereignty.
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E.
Benito Juárez
Benito Juárez is a centrally located borough (delegación/alcaldía) of Mexico City known for its middle-class residential neighborhoods, commercial areas, and relatively high quality of life.
- 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: Porfirio Díaz Target entity description: Porfirio Díaz was a Mexican military leader and long-serving president whose authoritarian rule and modernization policies defined Mexico’s late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Anastasio Bustamante
Anastasio Bustamante was a 19th-century Mexican military leader and conservative politician who served multiple terms as president during the turbulent early years of independent Mexico.
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B.
Vicente Pérez Rosales
Vicente Pérez Rosales was a 19th-century Chilean politician, colonization agent, and writer who played a key role in promoting European settlement and development in southern Chile.
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C.
Calixto García
Calixto García was a prominent Cuban general and revolutionary leader who played a major role in Cuba’s 19th-century wars for independence from Spain.
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D.
Benito Juárez
Benito Juárez was a 19th-century Mexican lawyer and statesman who served multiple terms as president and is renowned for his liberal reforms and defense of national sovereignty.
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E.
Benito Juárez
Benito Juárez is a centrally located borough (delegación/alcaldía) of Mexico City known for its middle-class residential neighborhoods, commercial areas, and relatively high quality of life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mexican politician
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President of Mexico ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1830-09-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
City of Oaxaca de Juárez
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surface form:
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
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| burialPlace | Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France ⓘ |
| cameToPowerBy | Tuxtepec Revolution ⓘ |
| causeOfResignation | Mexican Revolution ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mexico ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1915-07-02 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
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| educatedAt |
Institute of Sciences and Arts of Oaxaca
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surface form:
Oaxaca Institute of Arts and Sciences
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| ethnicGroup | Mestizo ⓘ |
| exiledTo | France ⓘ |
| familyName |
Diaz
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surface form:
Díaz
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| father | José Faustino Díaz ⓘ |
| fullName |
Porfirio Díaz
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori
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| givenName | Porfirio ⓘ |
| knownFor |
authoritarian rule
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economic modernization of Mexico ⓘ encouraging foreign investment ⓘ expansion of railways in Mexico ⓘ slogan "Orden y Progreso" ⓘ |
| militaryRank | General ⓘ |
| mother | Petrona Mori ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Porfiriato
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surface form:
Porfiriato (period of rule in Mexico)
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| numberOfChildren | 8 ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| opposed |
Maximilian I of Mexico
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surface form:
Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico
French occupation of Mexico ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Puebla
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surface form:
Battle of Puebla (1862)
French intervention in Mexico ⓘ Reform War ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology | authoritarian liberalism ⓘ |
| portrait | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Porfirio_Diaz_in_uniform.jpg ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Oaxaca
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President of Mexico ⓘ |
| precededBy | Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| signature | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Firma_de_Porfirio_D%C3%ADaz.svg ⓘ |
| spouse |
Carmen Romero Rubio
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Delfina Ortega Díaz ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Francisco León de la Barra
ⓘ
Manuel González Flores ⓘ |
| supported |
Mexican Liberal Party
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surface form:
Liberal Party of Mexico
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| termEnd |
1880-11-30
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1911-05-25 ⓘ |
| termStart |
1876-11-28
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1884-12-01 ⓘ |
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: Porfirio Díaz Description of subject: Porfirio Díaz was a Mexican military leader and long-serving president whose authoritarian rule and modernization policies defined Mexico’s late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Monument to Independence (El Ángel)
subject surface form:
Angel of Independence
this entity surface form:
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori
subject surface form:
Francisco León de la Barra
subject surface form:
Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central
subject surface form:
Montparnasse Cemetery