Sinaloa Cartel
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The Sinaloa Cartel is one of Mexico’s most powerful and influential drug trafficking organizations, long associated with large-scale narcotics smuggling and figures such as Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sinaloa Cartel canonical | 14 |
| Cartel de Sinaloa | 1 |
| Pacific Cartel | 1 |
| Sinaloa cartel (fictional context) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6128714 — 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: Sinaloa Cartel Context triple: [Mexican drug cartels, hasMember, Sinaloa Cartel]
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A.
Mexican drug cartels
Mexican drug cartels are powerful and violent criminal organizations in Mexico that dominate the illegal drug trade and are known for their extensive trafficking networks and brutal tactics.
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B.
Barksdale Organization
The Barksdale Organization is a powerful fictional Baltimore drug trafficking syndicate featured in the television series "The Wire."
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C.
Colombian drug cartels
Colombian drug cartels are powerful and violent criminal organizations in Colombia that dominate large-scale cocaine production and trafficking networks across the Americas and beyond.
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D.
Mayans M.C.
Mayans M.C. is an American crime drama television series that follows a Latino outlaw motorcycle club on the California–Mexico border in the same universe as Sons of Anarchy.
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E.
Clan del Golfo
Clan del Golfo is a powerful Colombian neo-paramilitary and drug trafficking organization known for controlling key cocaine routes and engaging in widespread violence and criminal activity.
- 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: Sinaloa Cartel Target entity description: The Sinaloa Cartel is one of Mexico’s most powerful and influential drug trafficking organizations, long associated with large-scale narcotics smuggling and figures such as Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
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A.
Mexican drug cartels
Mexican drug cartels are powerful and violent criminal organizations in Mexico that dominate the illegal drug trade and are known for their extensive trafficking networks and brutal tactics.
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B.
Barksdale Organization
The Barksdale Organization is a powerful fictional Baltimore drug trafficking syndicate featured in the television series "The Wire."
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C.
Colombian drug cartels
Colombian drug cartels are powerful and violent criminal organizations in Colombia that dominate large-scale cocaine production and trafficking networks across the Americas and beyond.
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D.
Mayans M.C.
Mayans M.C. is an American crime drama television series that follows a Latino outlaw motorcycle club on the California–Mexico border in the same universe as Sons of Anarchy.
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E.
Clan del Golfo
Clan del Golfo is a powerful Colombian neo-paramilitary and drug trafficking organization known for controlling key cocaine routes and engaging in widespread violence and criminal activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal organization
ⓘ
drug trafficking organization ⓘ transnational criminal organization ⓘ |
| alias |
Cartel de Sinaloa
ⓘ
linked to:
Sinaloa Cartel
Pacific Cartel ⓘ
linked to:
Sinaloa Cartel
|
| associatedWith |
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
ⓘ
linked to:
Joaquín Guzmán (El Chapo)
|
| basedIn |
Culiacán
ⓘ
Sinaloa ⓘ |
| controlsTraffickingOf |
cocaine
ⓘ
fentanyl ⓘ heroin ⓘ marijuana ⓘ methamphetamine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Mexico ⓘ |
| designatedAs | Transnational Criminal Organization by the United States ⓘ |
| designatedBy |
United States Department of Justice
ⓘ
United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| foundedInCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | late 1980s ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Gente Nueva
ⓘ
Los Chapitos ⓘ Los Ántrax ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Culiacán ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
arms trafficking
ⓘ
corruption ⓘ narcotics smuggling ⓘ violent crime ⓘ |
| knownFor |
alliances with other criminal groups
ⓘ
extensive international distribution networks ⓘ large-scale narcotics smuggling ⓘ use of bribery and corruption ⓘ |
| notableLeader |
Héctor Luis Palma Salazar
ⓘ
Ismael Zambada García ⓘ Joaquín Guzmán ⓘ
linked to:
Joaquín Guzmán (El Chapo)
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno ⓘ |
| operationalStructure | federation of semi-autonomous cells ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Mexican government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Mexico
United States law enforcement agencies ⓘ
linked to:
United States federal law enforcement
|
| primaryActivity |
drug trafficking
ⓘ
money laundering ⓘ organized crime ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ Mexico ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| rival |
Beltrán Leyva Cartel
ⓘ
linked to:
Beltrán-Leyva Cartel
Jalisco New Generation Cartel ⓘ Juárez Cartel ⓘ Tijuana Cartel ⓘ |
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: Sinaloa Cartel Description of subject: The Sinaloa Cartel is one of Mexico’s most powerful and influential drug trafficking organizations, long associated with large-scale narcotics smuggling and figures such as Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sinaloa Cartel
linked to: Sinaloa Cartel
subject linked to:
Brenda in Queen of the South
linked to: Sinaloa Cartel