Mexican Plateau
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The Mexican Plateau is a vast highland region in northern and central Mexico, characterized by its arid to semi-arid climate, elevated basins, and surrounding mountain ranges.
All labels observed (18)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T226568 — 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: Mexican Plateau Context triple: [Sierra Madre Oriental, rainShadowEffectOn, Mexican Plateau]
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A.
Sierra Madre Occidental
The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range in western Mexico known for its rugged terrain, deep canyons, and significant biodiversity.
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B.
Sierra Madre Oriental
The Sierra Madre Oriental is a major mountain range in northeastern Mexico known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and significant influence on the region’s climate and watersheds.
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C.
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca region
The Sierra Madre de Oaxaca region is a mountainous area in southern Mexico known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and numerous indigenous communities.
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D.
Sierra Madre del Sur
Sierra Madre del Sur is a major mountain range in southern Mexico known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and significant influence on the region’s climate and ecosystems.
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E.
Altiplano plateau
The Altiplano plateau is a high, windswept intermontane plateau in the central Andes of South America, known for its vast arid plains, salt flats, and high-altitude lakes.
- 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: Mexican Plateau Target entity description: The Mexican Plateau is a vast highland region in northern and central Mexico, characterized by its arid to semi-arid climate, elevated basins, and surrounding mountain ranges.
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A.
Sierra Madre Occidental
The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range in western Mexico known for its rugged terrain, deep canyons, and significant biodiversity.
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B.
Sierra Madre Oriental
The Sierra Madre Oriental is a major mountain range in northeastern Mexico known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and significant influence on the region’s climate and watersheds.
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C.
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca region
The Sierra Madre de Oaxaca region is a mountainous area in southern Mexico known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and numerous indigenous communities.
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D.
Sierra Madre del Sur
Sierra Madre del Sur is a major mountain range in southern Mexico known for its rugged terrain, rich biodiversity, and significant influence on the region’s climate and ecosystems.
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E.
Altiplano plateau
The Altiplano plateau is a high, windswept intermontane plateau in the central Andes of South America, known for its vast arid plains, salt flats, and high-altitude lakes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (80)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical region
ⓘ
physiographic region ⓘ plateau ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mexican Plateau
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surface form:
Altiplanicie Mexicana
Mexican Plateau ⓘ
surface form:
Mexican Altiplano
|
| averageElevation | about 1100 to 2500 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Sierra Madre Occidental
ⓘ
Sierra Madre Oriental ⓘ Sierra Madre del Sur ⓘ Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt ⓘ |
| climate |
arid
ⓘ
semi-arid ⓘ temperate highland in some areas ⓘ |
| contains |
Bajío
ⓘ
surface form:
Aguascalientes Valley
Valley of Mexico ⓘ
surface form:
Basin of Mexico
Chihuahuan Desert ⓘ
surface form:
Chihuahua Desert
Lerma River basin ⓘ Mapimí Basin ⓘ Valley of Mexico ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| drainage |
endorheic basins
ⓘ
exorheic basins leading to Gulf of Mexico ⓘ internally drained basins ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
cattle ranching
ⓘ
irrigated agriculture ⓘ mining ⓘ |
| ecoregion |
Mexican Plateau
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Central Mexican matorral
Chihuahuan Desert ⓘ Meseta Central matorral ⓘ |
| extendsFrom | U.S.–Mexico border region ⓘ |
| extendsTo |
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
ⓘ
surface form:
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt region
|
| feature |
elevated basins separated by mountain ranges
ⓘ
large endorheic lakes historically present in some basins ⓘ rain shadow conditions from surrounding sierras ⓘ |
| geology |
includes sedimentary basins
ⓘ
largely composed of volcanic rocks ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Mesa Central
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Mesa del Norte ⓘ Northern Plateau ⓘ Southern Plateau ⓘ |
| highestElevation | over 3000 meters in some areas ⓘ |
| historicalInhabitants |
Aztec civilization in the southern part
ⓘ
Teotihuacan culture in the southern part ⓘ Toltec civilization in the southern part ⓘ various Chichimeca groups in the north ⓘ |
| importance |
core area of Mexican agriculture in irrigated valleys
ⓘ
densely populated region of Mexico ⓘ historical center of several pre-Columbian civilizations ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
central Mexico
Northern Mexico ⓘ
surface form:
northern Mexico
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| majorCity |
Aguascalientes
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Chihuahua City ⓘ Durango ⓘ Guadalajara ⓘ León ⓘ Mexico City ⓘ Monterrey ⓘ Puebla ⓘ Querétaro ⓘ Saltillo ⓘ San Luis Potosí ⓘ Toluca ⓘ Zacatecas ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mexican interior
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Aguascalientes
ⓘ
Chihuahua ⓘ Coahuila ⓘ Durango ⓘ Guanajuato ⓘ Hidalgo ⓘ Jalisco ⓘ Estado de México ⓘ
surface form:
Mexico State
Nuevo León ⓘ Puebla ⓘ Querétaro ⓘ San Luis Potosí ⓘ Tlaxcala ⓘ Zacatecas ⓘ |
| relativeLocation | between Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mexican Plateau Description of subject: The Mexican Plateau is a vast highland region in northern and central Mexico, characterized by its arid to semi-arid climate, elevated basins, and surrounding mountain ranges.
Referenced by (78)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mexican Plateau from Pacific coastal lowlands
this entity surface form:
Mexican Plateau transition zone
this entity surface form:
Mexican Altiplano
this entity surface form:
Altiplanicie Mexicana
this entity surface form:
Central Mexican matorral
this entity surface form:
Altiplano Potosino
subject surface form:
Former Lake Zumpango
this entity surface form:
central Mexican Plateau
subject surface form:
Municipality of Corregidora, Querétaro
this entity surface form:
Mexican Highlands
this entity surface form:
Mexican Altiplano
this entity surface form:
Mexican Altiplano
this entity surface form:
Mexican highlands
this entity surface form:
Altiplano region of Mexico
subject surface form:
Otumba
this entity surface form:
Altiplano of central Mexico
this entity surface form:
Central Highlands of Mexico
subject surface form:
Guadalupe, Zacatecas
this entity surface form:
Altiplano Mexicano
this entity surface form:
Altiplano of central Mexico
this entity surface form:
Mexican Plateau physiographic province
this entity surface form:
Mexican highlands