Mexica
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The Mexica were a Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of central Mexico who founded the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and became the dominant power in the Aztec Empire.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mexica canonical | 51 |
| Aztecs | 13 |
| Mexica people | 12 |
| Aztec | 5 |
| Mexica civilization | 2 |
| Tenochca royal dynasty | 2 |
| Aztec (Mexica) | 1 |
| Aztec peoples | 1 |
| Mexica (Aztec) | 1 |
| Mexica (Aztec) forces of Tenochtitlan | 1 |
| Mexica (Aztecs) | 1 |
| Mexica of Tenochtitlan | 1 |
| Mexica warriors of Tenochtitlan | 1 |
| Tenochca Mexica | 1 |
| Tenochca dynasty | 1 |
| Tenochca ruling dynasty | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T741790 — 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: Mexica Context triple: [Tenochtitlan founding legend, associatedWithPeople, Mexica]
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A.
Totonac
Totonac is an indigenous language family of eastern Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Totonac people primarily in the states of Veracruz and Puebla.
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B.
Mazatec
Mazatec is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language (or group of closely related languages) spoken primarily by the Mazatec people in the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz.
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C.
Huastec
Huastec is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in northeastern Mexico, especially in parts of Veracruz and neighboring states.
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D.
Tarascan (Purépecha) civilization
The Tarascan (Purépecha) civilization was a powerful pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture centered in western Mexico, noted for its sophisticated metallurgy, strong military state, and successful resistance to Aztec expansion.
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E.
Popoluca
Popoluca refers to several closely related indigenous languages of the Mixe–Zoquean family spoken by native communities in southern Veracruz, Mexico.
- 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: Mexica Target entity description: The Mexica were a Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of central Mexico who founded the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and became the dominant power in the Aztec Empire.
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A.
Totonac
Totonac is an indigenous language family of eastern Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Totonac people primarily in the states of Veracruz and Puebla.
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B.
Mazatec
Mazatec is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language (or group of closely related languages) spoken primarily by the Mazatec people in the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz.
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C.
Huastec
Huastec is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in northeastern Mexico, especially in parts of Veracruz and neighboring states.
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D.
Tarascan (Purépecha) civilization
The Tarascan (Purépecha) civilization was a powerful pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture centered in western Mexico, noted for its sophisticated metallurgy, strong military state, and successful resistance to Aztec expansion.
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E.
Popoluca
Popoluca refers to several closely related indigenous languages of the Mixe–Zoquean family spoken by native communities in southern Veracruz, Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Mexica Description of subject: The Mexica were a Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of central Mexico who founded the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and became the dominant power in the Aztec Empire.
Referenced by (95)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aztecs
this entity surface form:
Aztecs
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Tenochca royal dynasty
this entity surface form:
Tenochca ruling dynasty
this entity surface form:
Mexica (Aztec) forces of Tenochtitlan
this entity surface form:
Mexica warriors of Tenochtitlan
this entity surface form:
Mexica people
this entity surface form:
Mexica people
this entity surface form:
Mexica people
this entity surface form:
Mexica civilization
this entity surface form:
Mexica people
this entity surface form:
Mexica people
this entity surface form:
Aztec
this entity surface form:
Mexica civilization
this entity surface form:
Mexica people
this entity surface form:
Mexica people
subject surface form:
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
this entity surface form:
Aztec (Mexica)
this entity surface form:
Aztec
this entity surface form:
Mexica (Aztecs)
this entity surface form:
Mexica of Tenochtitlan
this entity surface form:
Aztec
this entity surface form:
Aztec