Zacatecas
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Zacatecas is a mountainous state in north-central Mexico known for its rich silver-mining history, colonial architecture, and location along the Sierra Madre Occidental.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zacatecas canonical | 44 |
| State of Zacatecas | 2 |
| state of Zacatecas | 2 |
| Estado de Zacatecas | 1 |
| Zacatecas (state) | 1 |
| Zacatecas mining district | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T132072 — 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: Zacatecas Context triple: [Sierra Madre Occidental, passesThrough, Zacatecas]
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A.
Puebla
Puebla is a historic and culturally rich city in central Mexico, renowned for its colonial architecture, culinary traditions like mole poblano, and its role in the Battle of Puebla commemorated on Cinco de Mayo.
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B.
Nayarit
Nayarit is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its beaches, coastal resorts, and diverse mountainous and tropical landscapes.
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C.
Sinaloa
Sinaloa is a state in northwestern Mexico known for its fertile agricultural lands, Pacific coastline, and significant role in the country's cultural and economic life.
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D.
Veracruz
Veracruz is a coastal state in eastern Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico, known for its major port city, rich colonial and indigenous history, and diverse geography ranging from tropical lowlands to high mountains.
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E.
Baja California
Baja California is a long, narrow peninsula in northwestern Mexico known for its deserts, rugged coastline, and popular tourist destinations such as Tijuana and Ensenada.
- 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: Zacatecas Target entity description: Zacatecas is a mountainous state in north-central Mexico known for its rich silver-mining history, colonial architecture, and location along the Sierra Madre Occidental.
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A.
Puebla
Puebla is a historic and culturally rich city in central Mexico, renowned for its colonial architecture, culinary traditions like mole poblano, and its role in the Battle of Puebla commemorated on Cinco de Mayo.
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B.
Nayarit
Nayarit is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its beaches, coastal resorts, and diverse mountainous and tropical landscapes.
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C.
Sinaloa
Sinaloa is a state in northwestern Mexico known for its fertile agricultural lands, Pacific coastline, and significant role in the country's cultural and economic life.
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D.
Veracruz
Veracruz is a coastal state in eastern Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico, known for its major port city, rich colonial and indigenous history, and diverse geography ranging from tropical lowlands to high mountains.
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E.
Baja California
Baja California is a long, narrow peninsula in northwestern Mexico known for its deserts, rugged coastline, and popular tourist destinations such as Tijuana and Ensenada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Zacatecas Description of subject: Zacatecas is a mountainous state in north-central Mexico known for its rich silver-mining history, colonial architecture, and location along the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
State of Zacatecas
this entity surface form:
Zacatecas mining district
this entity surface form:
Estado de Zacatecas
this entity surface form:
State of Zacatecas
this entity surface form:
Zacatecas (state)
this entity surface form:
state of Zacatecas
subject surface form:
Jalisco
subject surface form:
Jalisco