Tarascas Fountain
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Tarascas Fountain is an iconic sculptural fountain in Morelia, Mexico, featuring three Purépecha women holding a large fruit basket and serving as one of the city’s most recognizable symbols.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tarascas Fountain canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4265251 — 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: Tarascas Fountain Context triple: [Morelia, hasLandmark, Tarascas Fountain]
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A.
Nejjarine Fountain
Nejjarine Fountain is a historic public fountain in the medina of Fez, Morocco, renowned for its ornate zellij tilework and carved wood decoration.
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B.
Rimondi Fountain
Rimondi Fountain is a 17th-century Venetian-era public fountain in the old town of Rethymno, Crete, known for its ornate stone architecture and lion-head spouts.
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C.
Latona Fountain
The Latona Fountain is a grand Baroque fountain at the Palace of Versailles, famed for its sculptural depiction of the myth of Latona and its central role in the garden’s axial design.
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D.
Emperor Fountain
The Emperor Fountain is a grand 19th-century ornamental water feature at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England, renowned for its exceptionally high jet and engineering ambition.
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E.
Morosini Fountain
Morosini Fountain is a historic Venetian-era marble fountain in the center of Heraklion, Crete, known for its ornate lion sculptures and role as a prominent city landmark.
- 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: Tarascas Fountain Target entity description: Tarascas Fountain is an iconic sculptural fountain in Morelia, Mexico, featuring three Purépecha women holding a large fruit basket and serving as one of the city’s most recognizable symbols.
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A.
Nejjarine Fountain
Nejjarine Fountain is a historic public fountain in the medina of Fez, Morocco, renowned for its ornate zellij tilework and carved wood decoration.
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B.
Rimondi Fountain
Rimondi Fountain is a 17th-century Venetian-era public fountain in the old town of Rethymno, Crete, known for its ornate stone architecture and lion-head spouts.
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C.
Latona Fountain
The Latona Fountain is a grand Baroque fountain at the Palace of Versailles, famed for its sculptural depiction of the myth of Latona and its central role in the garden’s axial design.
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D.
Emperor Fountain
The Emperor Fountain is a grand 19th-century ornamental water feature at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England, renowned for its exceptionally high jet and engineering ambition.
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E.
Morosini Fountain
Morosini Fountain is a historic Venetian-era marble fountain in the center of Heraklion, Crete, known for its ornate lion sculptures and role as a prominent city landmark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city landmark
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fountain ⓘ public artwork ⓘ |
| artStyle | modern Mexican sculpture ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| depicts |
Purépecha women
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abundance ⓘ basket of regional fruits ⓘ |
| genre | figurative sculpture ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | 19.700°N 101.186°W ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Purépecha people
NERFINISHED
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Tarascan heritage ⓘ |
| hasLighting | night illumination ⓘ |
| hasPart |
large fruit basket
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three Purépecha women sculptures ⓘ water basin ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
emblematic postcard image of the city
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one of the most recognizable symbols of Morelia ⓘ |
| hasUse |
meeting point
ⓘ
photography spot ⓘ urban decoration ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Historic Centre of Morelia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1984 ⓘ |
| isIconOf |
Michoacán tourism
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Morelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfNativeName | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Morelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Michoacán NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricCenter | Historic Centre of Morelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Aqueduct of Morelia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Calle Acueducto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Avenida Francisco I. Madero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | municipal government of Morelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed | bronze ⓘ |
| nativeName | Fuente de las Tarascas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | urban landscape of central Morelia ⓘ |
| replaced | original Tarascas Fountain (1931 sculpture) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Purépecha culture
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fertility ⓘ identity of Morelia ⓘ prosperity ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
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: Tarascas Fountain Description of subject: Tarascas Fountain is an iconic sculptural fountain in Morelia, Mexico, featuring three Purépecha women holding a large fruit basket and serving as one of the city’s most recognizable symbols.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Morelia