Texcoco
E113717
Texcoco was a major Acolhua city-state in the Valley of Mexico and a key member of the Aztec Triple Alliance that dominated central Mexico before the Spanish conquest.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Texcoco canonical | 69 |
| Texcoco Municipality | 2 |
| Texcoco de Mora | 2 |
| Texcoco (Acolhua city-state) | 1 |
| Texcoco (Acolhua city‑state) | 1 |
| Texcoco (altepetl) | 1 |
| Texcoco (city) | 1 |
| Texcoco (pre-Columbian city-state) | 1 |
| Texcoco (pre‑Hispanic city) | 1 |
| Texcoco Lake area | 1 |
| Texcoco Valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T798600 — 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: Texcoco Context triple: [Tenochtitlan, alliedWith, Texcoco]
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A.
Huixquilucan
Huixquilucan is a municipality in the State of Mexico that forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area and is known for its rapidly growing residential and commercial zones.
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B.
Tláhuac
Tláhuac is a largely semi-rural borough in the southeastern part of Mexico City, known for its chinampas (traditional canal-based agriculture) and rapid urbanization.
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C.
Iztacalco
Iztacalco is one of the boroughs of Mexico City, known for its dense urban character, historic canals, and traditional neighborhoods.
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D.
Xochimilco
Xochimilco is a southern borough of Mexico City famous for its historic canals, colorful trajinera boats, and UNESCO-listed chinampa (floating garden) agricultural system.
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E.
Naucalpan de Juárez
Naucalpan de Juárez is a large industrial and residential city in the State of Mexico that forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area.
- 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: Texcoco Target entity description: Texcoco was a major Acolhua city-state in the Valley of Mexico and a key member of the Aztec Triple Alliance that dominated central Mexico before the Spanish conquest.
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A.
Huixquilucan
Huixquilucan is a municipality in the State of Mexico that forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area and is known for its rapidly growing residential and commercial zones.
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B.
Tláhuac
Tláhuac is a largely semi-rural borough in the southeastern part of Mexico City, known for its chinampas (traditional canal-based agriculture) and rapid urbanization.
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C.
Iztacalco
Iztacalco is one of the boroughs of Mexico City, known for its dense urban character, historic canals, and traditional neighborhoods.
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D.
Xochimilco
Xochimilco is a southern borough of Mexico City famous for its historic canals, colorful trajinera boats, and UNESCO-listed chinampa (floating garden) agricultural system.
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E.
Naucalpan de Juárez
Naucalpan de Juárez is a large industrial and residential city in the State of Mexico that forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Acolhua altepetl
ⓘ
member of the Aztec Triple Alliance ⓘ pre-Columbian city-state ⓘ |
| allianceType |
military alliance
ⓘ
tribute-sharing alliance ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Aztec civilization
ⓘ
linked to:
Aztec Empire
|
| capitalOf |
Acolhua people
ⓘ
linked to:
Acolhua
|
| conqueredBy | Spanish conquistadors ⓘ |
| conquestContext | Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
center of law and codification
ⓘ
center of poetry and philosophy ⓘ |
| dominated | parts of central Mexico ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
regional trade ⓘ tribute ⓘ |
| ethnicAffiliation | Acolhua ⓘ |
| flourishedDuring |
14th century
ⓘ
15th century ⓘ early 16th century ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | important site of pre-Hispanic history of Mexico ⓘ |
| knownFor |
intellectual elite and scribes
ⓘ
legal reforms under Nezahualcoyotl ⓘ poetic tradition ⓘ |
| language | Classical Nahuatl ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Valley of Mexico
ⓘ
central Mexico ⓘ
linked to:
Central Mexico
|
| modernCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| notableRuler |
Nezahualcoyotl
ⓘ
Nezahualpilli ⓘ |
| partOf |
Acolhua region
ⓘ
Aztec Empire ⓘ |
| preConquestStatus | key member of the Aztec Triple Alliance ⓘ |
| regionFeature | near Lake Texcoco ⓘ |
| religion | Mesoamerican polytheism ⓘ |
| roleInTripleAlliance |
cultural and intellectual center
ⓘ
major political center ⓘ |
| rulerTitle | tlatoani ⓘ |
| sharesPowerWith |
Tenochtitlan
ⓘ
Tlacopan ⓘ
linked to:
Tepanec
|
| successorPoliticalEntity |
New Spain
ⓘ
linked to:
Viceroyalty of New Spain
|
| timePeriod | Late Postclassic Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| tributeShareInAlliance | two-fifths of collected tribute (traditional account) ⓘ |
| urbanFeature |
causeways
ⓘ
gardens ⓘ palaces ⓘ temples ⓘ |
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: Texcoco Description of subject: Texcoco was a major Acolhua city-state in the Valley of Mexico and a key member of the Aztec Triple Alliance that dominated central Mexico before the Spanish conquest.
Referenced by (81)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Texcoco
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subject linked to:
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