Xcalak
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Xcalak is a small coastal village in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, known for its remote location, coral reefs, and role as a gateway to the Banco Chinchorro atoll.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Xcalak canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10398655 — 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: Xcalak Context triple: [Othón P. Blanco Municipality, hasSettlement, Xcalak]
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A.
Dzibilchaltún
Dzibilchaltún is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, noted for its Temple of the Seven Dolls and precise solar alignments during the equinoxes.
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B.
Oxkutzcab
Oxkutzcab is a town in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico known for its agricultural production, especially citrus fruits, and its proximity to several Maya archaeological sites.
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C.
Ixchiguán
Ixchiguán is a highland municipality in western Guatemala known for its cold climate, mountainous terrain, and traditional indigenous communities.
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D.
Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ
Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ was the founding dynastic ruler of the ancient Maya city-state of Copán, revered as a powerful king whose reign initiated its political and architectural florescence.
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E.
Oxkintok
Oxkintok is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, notable for its early architecture and long history of occupation.
- 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: Xcalak Target entity description: Xcalak is a small coastal village in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, known for its remote location, coral reefs, and role as a gateway to the Banco Chinchorro atoll.
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A.
Dzibilchaltún
Dzibilchaltún is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, noted for its Temple of the Seven Dolls and precise solar alignments during the equinoxes.
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B.
Oxkutzcab
Oxkutzcab is a town in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico known for its agricultural production, especially citrus fruits, and its proximity to several Maya archaeological sites.
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C.
Ixchiguán
Ixchiguán is a highland municipality in western Guatemala known for its cold climate, mountainous terrain, and traditional indigenous communities.
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D.
Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ
Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ was the founding dynastic ruler of the ancient Maya city-state of Copán, revered as a powerful king whose reign initiated its political and architectural florescence.
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E.
Oxkintok
Oxkintok is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, notable for its early architecture and long history of occupation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal village
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ village ⓘ |
| accessibleFrom |
Chetumal
ⓘ
Mahahual ⓘ |
| climate | tropical ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| distanceToChetumal | approximately 200 km north ⓘ |
| distanceToMahahual | approximately 60 km south ⓘ |
| governedBy |
state of Quintana Roo
ⓘ
linked to:
Quintana Roo
|
| hasConservationFocus |
marine biodiversity protection
ⓘ
reef conservation ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureCharacteristic |
few paved roads
ⓘ
limited services ⓘ |
| hasMarineEcosystem |
coral reefs
ⓘ
mangroves ⓘ seagrass beds ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve (regionally nearby)
ⓘ
linked to:
Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve
|
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | small population ⓘ |
| hasProtectedAreaStatus | within Xcalak Reefs National Park ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffset | −05:00 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coral reefs
ⓘ
diving ⓘ eco‑tourism ⓘ remote location ⓘ snorkeling ⓘ sport fishing ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Quintana Roo
ⓘ
southern Quintana Roo ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Eastern Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
| locatedNear | border between Mexico and Belize ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Caribbean Sea
ⓘ
Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
| near | Banco Chinchorro ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
ⓘ
Municipality of Othón P. Blanco ⓘ |
| popularActivity |
fly‑fishing for bonefish
ⓘ
fly‑fishing for permit ⓘ fly‑fishing for tarpon ⓘ |
| role | gateway to Banco Chinchorro atoll ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
hurricanes
ⓘ
tropical storms ⓘ |
| tourismType |
low‑impact tourism
ⓘ
off‑the‑beaten‑path destination ⓘ |
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: Xcalak Description of subject: Xcalak is a small coastal village in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, known for its remote location, coral reefs, and role as a gateway to the Banco Chinchorro atoll.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.