Capture of Oaxaca (1812)
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The Capture of Oaxaca (1812) was a major Mexican War of Independence victory in which insurgent forces seized the important colonial city of Oaxaca from Spanish royalist control.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Capture of Oaxaca (1812) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6324274 — 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: Capture of Oaxaca (1812) Context triple: [José María Morelos y Pavón, participatedIn, Capture of Oaxaca (1812)]
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A.
Siege of Cuautla
The Siege of Cuautla was a pivotal 1812 confrontation in the Mexican War of Independence, where insurgent forces led by José María Morelos withstood a prolonged royalist siege, boosting the rebel cause despite ultimately withdrawing.
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B.
Battle of Cerro Gordo
The Battle of Cerro Gordo was a pivotal 1847 engagement in which U.S. forces under General Winfield Scott outflanked and decisively defeated Mexican troops defending the road to Mexico City.
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C.
Battle of Monterrey
The Battle of Monterrey was a key 1846 engagement in the Mexican–American War in which U.S. forces captured the strategically important city of Monterrey after intense urban combat and negotiations for surrender.
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D.
Siege of Veracruz
The Siege of Veracruz was a pivotal 1847 U.S. amphibious assault and bombardment of the Mexican port city of Veracruz that opened the road to Mexico City during the Mexican–American War.
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E.
Southern campaign of the Mexican War of Independence
The Southern campaign of the Mexican War of Independence was a key series of insurgent military operations in southern New Spain, led largely by figures like Vicente Guerrero, that helped secure Mexico’s eventual independence from Spanish rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Capture of Oaxaca (1812) Target entity description: The Capture of Oaxaca (1812) was a major Mexican War of Independence victory in which insurgent forces seized the important colonial city of Oaxaca from Spanish royalist control.
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A.
Siege of Cuautla
The Siege of Cuautla was a pivotal 1812 confrontation in the Mexican War of Independence, where insurgent forces led by José María Morelos withstood a prolonged royalist siege, boosting the rebel cause despite ultimately withdrawing.
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B.
Battle of Cerro Gordo
The Battle of Cerro Gordo was a pivotal 1847 engagement in which U.S. forces under General Winfield Scott outflanked and decisively defeated Mexican troops defending the road to Mexico City.
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C.
Battle of Monterrey
The Battle of Monterrey was a key 1846 engagement in the Mexican–American War in which U.S. forces captured the strategically important city of Monterrey after intense urban combat and negotiations for surrender.
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D.
Siege of Veracruz
The Siege of Veracruz was a pivotal 1847 U.S. amphibious assault and bombardment of the Mexican port city of Veracruz that opened the road to Mexico City during the Mexican–American War.
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E.
Southern campaign of the Mexican War of Independence
The Southern campaign of the Mexican War of Independence was a key series of insurgent military operations in southern New Spain, led largely by figures like Vicente Guerrero, that helped secure Mexico’s eventual independence from Spanish rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battle
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military engagement ⓘ |
| afterEffect | weakened Spanish royalist control in southern New Spain ⓘ |
| combatant |
Mexican insurgents
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Spanish royalists ⓘ |
| conflict | Mexican War of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controlledAfter | Mexican insurgents ⓘ |
| controlledBefore | Spanish royalists ⓘ |
| country | Viceroyalty of New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
Mexican insurgent forces
NERFINISHED
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Spanish royalist forces ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Oaxaca
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oaxaca City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| objective | seizure of the colonial city of Oaxaca from royalist control ⓘ |
| opponent |
Spanish Empire
NERFINISHED
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royalist forces of New Spain ⓘ |
| outcome | insurgents seized Oaxaca City ⓘ |
| partOf | Mexican War of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Mexican independence movement
NERFINISHED
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Spanish American wars of independence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| result | insurgent victory ⓘ |
| significance |
major victory for Mexican insurgents
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secured an important colonial city for the insurgent movement ⓘ |
| temporalContext | early phase of the Mexican War of Independence ⓘ |
| typeOfLocationCaptured | colonial city ⓘ |
| year | 1812 ⓘ |
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: Capture of Oaxaca (1812) Description of subject: The Capture of Oaxaca (1812) was a major Mexican War of Independence victory in which insurgent forces seized the important colonial city of Oaxaca from Spanish royalist control.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
José María Morelos y Pavón