Sonora
E30806
Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sonora canonical | 282 |
| Sonora y Sinaloa | 4 |
| state of Sonora | 2 |
| Northwestern Sonora | 1 |
| Sonora (historical) | 1 |
| Sonora time zone | 1 |
| Southern Sonora | 1 |
| State of Sonora | 1 |
| State of Sonora y Sinaloa | 1 |
| Yuma–San Luis region | 1 |
| interior Sonora | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T132074 — 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: Sonora Context triple: [Sierra Madre Occidental, passesThrough, Sonora]
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A.
Sinaloa
Sinaloa is a state in northwestern Mexico known for its fertile agricultural lands, Pacific coastline, and significant role in the country's cultural and economic life.
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B.
Baja California
Baja California is a long, narrow peninsula in northwestern Mexico known for its deserts, rugged coastline, and popular tourist destinations such as Tijuana and Ensenada.
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C.
Nayarit
Nayarit is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its beaches, coastal resorts, and diverse mountainous and tropical landscapes.
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D.
Zacatecas
Zacatecas is a mountainous state in north-central Mexico known for its rich silver-mining history, colonial architecture, and location along the Sierra Madre Occidental.
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E.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
- 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: Sonora Target entity description: Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
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A.
Sinaloa
Sinaloa is a state in northwestern Mexico known for its fertile agricultural lands, Pacific coastline, and significant role in the country's cultural and economic life.
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B.
Baja California
Baja California is a long, narrow peninsula in northwestern Mexico known for its deserts, rugged coastline, and popular tourist destinations such as Tijuana and Ensenada.
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C.
Nayarit
Nayarit is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its beaches, coastal resorts, and diverse mountainous and tropical landscapes.
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D.
Zacatecas
Zacatecas is a mountainous state in north-central Mexico known for its rich silver-mining history, colonial architecture, and location along the Sierra Madre Occidental.
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E.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Sonora Description of subject: Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
Referenced by (296)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
U.S. state of Arizona
linked to: Sonora
subject linked to:
connected by Mexican Federal Highway 15
linked to: Sonora
linked to: Sonora
subject linked to:
Hermosillo, Mexico
subject linked to:
Hermosillo, Mexico