Tulum
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Tulum is a coastal town in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula best known for its well-preserved Mayan ruins perched on cliffs overlooking the Caribbean Sea and its popular beaches and resorts.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tulum canonical | 20 |
| Tulum archaeological site | 3 |
| Tulum Municipality | 2 |
| Tulum town | 2 |
| Tulum beach zone | 1 |
| Tulum hotel zone | 1 |
| Tulum, Quintana Roo | 1 |
| municipality of Tulum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T351713 — 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: Tulum Context triple: [Yucatán Peninsula, hasArchaeologicalSite, Tulum]
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A.
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Playa del Carmen, Mexico is a popular Caribbean coastal resort city on the Riviera Maya known for its beaches, tourism, and role as a venue for major regional and international events.
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B.
Cancún
Cancún is a major Mexican resort city on the Caribbean coast, renowned for its beaches, tourism industry, and role as a host for international conferences and summits.
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C.
Acapulco
Acapulco is a historic Mexican Pacific coastal city that flourished as a major colonial-era seaport and remains a prominent tourist destination.
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D.
Uxmal
Uxmal is a major ancient Maya city in present-day Mexico, renowned for its well-preserved Puuc-style architecture and impressive pyramids and palaces.
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E.
Chetumal
Chetumal is a coastal city in southeastern Mexico that serves as the capital of the state of Quintana Roo and a key gateway to the Caribbean and Belize.
- 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: Tulum Target entity description: Tulum is a coastal town in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula best known for its well-preserved Mayan ruins perched on cliffs overlooking the Caribbean Sea and its popular beaches and resorts.
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A.
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Playa del Carmen, Mexico is a popular Caribbean coastal resort city on the Riviera Maya known for its beaches, tourism, and role as a venue for major regional and international events.
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B.
Cancún
Cancún is a major Mexican resort city on the Caribbean coast, renowned for its beaches, tourism industry, and role as a host for international conferences and summits.
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C.
Acapulco
Acapulco is a historic Mexican Pacific coastal city that flourished as a major colonial-era seaport and remains a prominent tourist destination.
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D.
Uxmal
Uxmal is a major ancient Maya city in present-day Mexico, renowned for its well-preserved Puuc-style architecture and impressive pyramids and palaces.
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E.
Chetumal
Chetumal is a coastal city in southeastern Mexico that serves as the capital of the state of Quintana Roo and a key gateway to the Caribbean and Belize.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
ⓘ
tourist destination ⓘ town ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica
ⓘ
surface form:
Maya Postclassic
|
| climate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| coastType | Caribbean coast ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| economySector |
hospitality industry
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Tulum International Airport ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cenote systems
ⓘ
coral reefs offshore ⓘ limestone cliffs ⓘ white sand beaches ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Tulum
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tulum archaeological site
Tulum self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tulum beach zone
Tulum self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tulum town
|
| heritageType | pre-Columbian archaeological heritage ⓘ |
| historicalCulture | Maya civilization ⓘ |
| indigenousLanguagePresence | Yucatec Maya ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Maya ruins
ⓘ
beaches ⓘ cenotes ⓘ cliffside views ⓘ eco-tourism ⓘ resorts ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Quintana Roo
ⓘ
Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
| locatedInMunicipality |
Tulum
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tulum Municipality
|
| locatedOn | Caribbean Sea ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf |
Cancún
ⓘ
Playa del Carmen, Mexico ⓘ
surface form:
Playa del Carmen
|
| nearbyArchaeologicalSite | Cobá ⓘ |
| nearbyBodyOfWater | Caribbean Sea ⓘ |
| nearbyProtectedArea | Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve ⓘ |
| partOf |
Riviera Maya region
ⓘ
surface form:
Riviera Maya
|
| popularActivity |
scuba diving
ⓘ
snorkeling ⓘ visiting archaeological ruins ⓘ visiting cenotes ⓘ yoga retreats ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| region |
Yucatán Peninsula
ⓘ
surface form:
Caribbean Mexico
|
| state | Quintana Roo ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Eastern Standard Time (Panama)
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Standard Time
|
| tourismType |
adventure tourism
ⓘ
beach tourism ⓘ cultural tourism ⓘ |
| transportConnection | Federal Highway 307 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tulum Description of subject: Tulum is a coastal town in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula best known for its well-preserved Mayan ruins perched on cliffs overlooking the Caribbean Sea and its popular beaches and resorts.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Playa del Carmen
this entity surface form:
Tulum archaeological site
subject surface form:
Quintana Roo
subject surface form:
Quintana Roo
this entity surface form:
Tulum Municipality
subject surface form:
Quintana Roo
subject surface form:
Quintana Roo
this entity surface form:
Tulum archaeological site
this entity surface form:
Tulum archaeological site
this entity surface form:
Tulum Municipality
subject surface form:
Riviera Maya
this entity surface form:
Tulum hotel zone
this entity surface form:
Tulum, Quintana Roo
this entity surface form:
Tulum town