Coatlan
E482642
Coatlan was a Mesoamerican city-state that took part in the Tepanec War during the rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coatlan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4917364 — 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: Coatlan Context triple: [Tepanec War, hasParticipant, Coatlan]
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A.
Tututepec
Tututepec was a prominent pre-Columbian Mixtec city-state and political center located on the Pacific coast of present-day Oaxaca, Mexico.
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B.
Bajío
Bajío is a fertile, economically important region in central-western Mexico known for its agriculture, industry, and colonial cities.
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C.
Apatzingán
Apatzingán is a city in the Mexican state of Michoacán, historically notable as a key site in the country’s early independence movement.
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D.
Atzacan
Atzacan is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz that forms part of the greater Orizaba metropolitan region.
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E.
Matlatzinca
Matlatzinca is an indigenous language of central Mexico spoken by the Matlatzinca people, primarily in the State of Mexico.
- 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: Coatlan Target entity description: Coatlan was a Mesoamerican city-state that took part in the Tepanec War during the rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance.
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A.
Tututepec
Tututepec was a prominent pre-Columbian Mixtec city-state and political center located on the Pacific coast of present-day Oaxaca, Mexico.
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B.
Bajío
Bajío is a fertile, economically important region in central-western Mexico known for its agriculture, industry, and colonial cities.
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C.
Apatzingán
Apatzingán is a city in the Mexican state of Michoacán, historically notable as a key site in the country’s early independence movement.
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D.
Atzacan
Atzacan is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz that forms part of the greater Orizaba metropolitan region.
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E.
Matlatzinca
Matlatzinca is an indigenous language of central Mexico spoken by the Matlatzinca people, primarily in the State of Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican city-state
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altepetl ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Aztec Triple Alliance
ⓘ
linked to:
Aztec Empire
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| conflictRoleIn | Tepanec War ⓘ |
| culture | Mesoamerican ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext |
fall of the Tepanec hegemony
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rise of the Aztec Empire ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | defunct polity ⓘ |
| involvedIn | power struggles among central Mexican city-states ⓘ |
| languageFamilyLikelySpoken | Uto-Aztecan languages ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod |
Postclassic Mesoamerica
ⓘ
linked to:
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica
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| participatedIn | Tepanec War ⓘ |
| partOfHistoricalRegion | Central Mexico ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | city-state polity ⓘ |
| regionType |
Nahua cultural area
ⓘ
linked to:
Nahua cultural sphere
|
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: Coatlan Description of subject: Coatlan was a Mesoamerican city-state that took part in the Tepanec War during the rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.