Cinco de Mayo
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Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday that commemorates the 1862 victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla and is widely celebrated, especially in the United States, as a festival of Mexican culture and heritage.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cinco de Mayo canonical | 19 |
| Cinco de Mayo celebrations | 4 |
| Cinco de Mayo festival | 1 |
| Cinco de Mayo festivities | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T62109 — 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: Cinco de Mayo Context triple: [Independence Day (Mexico), distinctFrom, Cinco de Mayo]
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A.
Fiestas Patrias
Fiestas Patrias is Chile’s major national celebration in mid-September, marked by parades, traditional music and dance, barbecues, and patriotic festivities commemorating the country’s independence.
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B.
King's Day
King's Day is a nationwide Dutch holiday celebrated each April with street festivals, orange-themed festivities, and open-air markets honoring the birthday of the reigning monarch.
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C.
Bastille Day
Bastille Day is France’s annual national day commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.
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D.
La Candelaria
La Candelaria is Bogotá’s historic downtown neighborhood, known for its colonial architecture, cobblestone streets, and many of the city’s main cultural and political landmarks.
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E.
Puerto Rican Day Parade
The Puerto Rican Day Parade is an annual celebration of Puerto Rican culture and heritage in New York City, featuring vibrant floats, music, and community groups marching through Manhattan.
- 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: Cinco de Mayo Target entity description: Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday that commemorates the 1862 victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla and is widely celebrated, especially in the United States, as a festival of Mexican culture and heritage.
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A.
Fiestas Patrias
Fiestas Patrias is Chile’s major national celebration in mid-September, marked by parades, traditional music and dance, barbecues, and patriotic festivities commemorating the country’s independence.
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B.
King's Day
King's Day is a nationwide Dutch holiday celebrated each April with street festivals, orange-themed festivities, and open-air markets honoring the birthday of the reigning monarch.
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C.
Bastille Day
Bastille Day is France’s annual national day commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.
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D.
La Candelaria
La Candelaria is Bogotá’s historic downtown neighborhood, known for its colonial architecture, cobblestone streets, and many of the city’s main cultural and political landmarks.
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E.
Puerto Rican Day Parade
The Puerto Rican Day Parade is an annual celebration of Puerto Rican culture and heritage in New York City, featuring vibrant floats, music, and community groups marching through Manhattan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mexican holiday
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cultural celebration ⓘ holiday ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mexican-American culture
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commercial promotions ⓘ folk dancing ⓘ mariachi bands ⓘ music ⓘ parades ⓘ public festivals ⓘ traditional Mexican food ⓘ |
| calendarSystem |
Gregorian calendar
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linked to:
Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
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| commemorates |
Battle of Puebla
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Mexican victory over French forces ⓘ |
| commemorationYear | 1862 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Mexico ⓘ |
| culturalFocusInUS |
Latino identity
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Mexican heritage ⓘ |
| date | May 5 ⓘ |
| dayOfYear | 5 May ⓘ |
| follows | May 4 ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| historicalEventCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| historicalEventLocation | Puebla ⓘ |
| historicalEventYear | 1862 ⓘ |
| independenceDayOf | none ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Chicano movement
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beer marketing campaigns ⓘ |
| literalMeaningOfName | Fifth of May ⓘ |
| majorCelebrationIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notToBeConfusedWith | Mexican Independence Day ⓘ |
| observedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
various countries ⓘ |
| oftenMisconstruedAs | Mexican Independence Day ⓘ |
| opponentInBattle |
Second French Empire
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linked to:
Second Empire of France
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| popularizedInUSDuring | 20th century ⓘ |
| precedes | May 6 ⓘ |
| primaryMexicanObservanceLocation |
city of Puebla
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linked to:
Puebla
state of Puebla ⓘ
linked to:
Puebla
|
| significanceInMexico | regional holiday ⓘ |
| typeOfCelebration |
celebration of Mexican culture
ⓘ
celebration of Mexican heritage ⓘ |
| victoriousSide | Mexican forces ⓘ |
| workStatusInMexico |
not a federal public holiday nationwide
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public holiday in Puebla ⓘ |
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: Cinco de Mayo Description of subject: Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday that commemorates the 1862 victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla and is widely celebrated, especially in the United States, as a festival of Mexican culture and heritage.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Independence Day
linked to: Cinco de Mayo
subject linked to:
Zaragoza (in honor of Ignacio Zaragoza)
linked to: Cinco de Mayo
linked to: Cinco de Mayo
linked to: Cinco de Mayo
linked to: Cinco de Mayo
linked to: Cinco de Mayo
subject linked to:
album Libertad 548
subject linked to:
states of Tlaxcala and Puebla