Mexican Inquisition
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The Mexican Inquisition was a tribunal of the Catholic Church established in New Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, targeting heresy, crypto-Judaism, and other perceived deviations from Catholic doctrine during the colonial period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mexican Inquisition canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9086682 — 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: Mexican Inquisition Context triple: [Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, associatedWith, Mexican Inquisition]
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Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition was a powerful Catholic institution established in late 15th-century Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, often through persecution, trials, and expulsions of Jews, Muslims, and other perceived heretics.
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Portuguese Inquisition
The Portuguese Inquisition was a powerful religious tribunal established in Portugal in the 16th century that persecuted Jews, conversos, and other alleged heretics under the authority of the Catholic Church and the Portuguese crown.
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Roman Inquisition
The Roman Inquisition was a system of tribunals established by the Catholic Church in the 16th century to combat heresy and enforce doctrinal orthodoxy, particularly in response to the Protestant Reformation.
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Inquisition
The Inquisition was a powerful ecclesiastical tribunal system of the Catholic Church and allied monarchies, created to identify, try, and punish heresy and enforce religious orthodoxy.
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Archdiocesan tribunal of Guadalajara
The Archdiocesan tribunal of Guadalajara is the main ecclesiastical court of the Roman Catholic Church in Guadalajara, responsible for adjudicating matters of canon law such as marriage nullity cases and other internal church legal issues.
- 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: Mexican Inquisition Target entity description: The Mexican Inquisition was a tribunal of the Catholic Church established in New Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, targeting heresy, crypto-Judaism, and other perceived deviations from Catholic doctrine during the colonial period.
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A.
Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition was a powerful Catholic institution established in late 15th-century Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, often through persecution, trials, and expulsions of Jews, Muslims, and other perceived heretics.
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B.
Portuguese Inquisition
The Portuguese Inquisition was a powerful religious tribunal established in Portugal in the 16th century that persecuted Jews, conversos, and other alleged heretics under the authority of the Catholic Church and the Portuguese crown.
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C.
Roman Inquisition
The Roman Inquisition was a system of tribunals established by the Catholic Church in the 16th century to combat heresy and enforce doctrinal orthodoxy, particularly in response to the Protestant Reformation.
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D.
Inquisition
The Inquisition was a powerful ecclesiastical tribunal system of the Catholic Church and allied monarchies, created to identify, try, and punish heresy and enforce religious orthodoxy.
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E.
Archdiocesan tribunal of Guadalajara
The Archdiocesan tribunal of Guadalajara is the main ecclesiastical court of the Roman Catholic Church in Guadalajara, responsible for adjudicating matters of canon law such as marriage nullity cases and other internal church legal issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic ecclesiastical court
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inquisition ⓘ religious tribunal ⓘ |
| abolishedBy | liberal Spanish Cortes decrees ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Central America (parts of New Spain)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ colonial Mexico ⓘ |
| archivesAt |
Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Archivo Histórico Nacional (Spain) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Viceroyalty of New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved |
1820
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1821 ⓘ |
| endTime | early 19th century ⓘ |
| facetOf |
history of Mexico
ⓘ
history of the Catholic Church in Latin America ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Catholic Church
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
censorship of religious and philosophical ideas
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close collaboration between church and crown ⓘ focus on Old Christian purity of blood (limpieza de sangre) ⓘ regulation of moral behavior ⓘ targeting conversos suspected of Judaizing ⓘ |
| hasMainOrgan | tribunal in Mexico City ⓘ |
| hasPart |
autos-da-fé
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ecclesiastical prisons ⓘ local commissariats ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Mexico City ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Spanish colonial period in Mexico ⓘ |
| inception | 1571 ⓘ |
| influenced |
censorship practices in New Spain
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religious culture in colonial Mexico ⓘ social attitudes toward conversos and minorities ⓘ |
| language |
Latin
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Spanish ⓘ |
| legalForm |
ecclesiastical court
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royal institution ⓘ |
| location | Mexico City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Islam (Moriscos)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Protestantism ⓘ bigamy ⓘ blasphemy ⓘ crypto-Judaism ⓘ heresy ⓘ indigenous religious practices (to a limited extent) ⓘ religious orthodoxy ⓘ sorcery ⓘ |
| objective |
control religious dissent
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enforce Catholic orthodoxy ⓘ suppress heresy ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Enlightenment-influenced reformers ⓘ |
| partOf | Spanish Inquisition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| significantEvent |
first auto-da-fé in Mexico City in 1574
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persecution of English and Dutch Protestants in New Spain ⓘ suppression of certain indigenous religious leaders ⓘ temporary suspension during liberal reforms in Spain in 1812 ⓘ trials of crypto-Jews in the late 16th and 17th centuries ⓘ |
| startTime | 1571 ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Spanish monarchy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses |
censorship of books
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confiscation of property ⓘ execution by burning (in some cases) ⓘ judicial torture ⓘ public penance rituals ⓘ |
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Subject: Mexican Inquisition Description of subject: The Mexican Inquisition was a tribunal of the Catholic Church established in New Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, targeting heresy, crypto-Judaism, and other perceived deviations from Catholic doctrine during the colonial period.
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