Mérida
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Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán, known for its rich Mayan and colonial heritage and its role as a cultural and economic hub of the Yucatán Peninsula.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mérida canonical | 31 |
| Mérida, Yucatán | 14 |
| Mérida, Mexico | 3 |
| city of Mérida | 3 |
| Merida | 1 |
| Mérida metropolitan area | 1 |
| Mérida urban area | 1 |
| Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico | 1 |
| Mérida, Yucatán, Viceroyalty of New Spain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T351706 — 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: Mérida Context triple: [Yucatán Peninsula, hasCity, Mérida]
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A.
Guadalajara
Guadalajara is a large cultural and economic hub in western Mexico, renowned for its colonial architecture, mariachi music, and role as a major center of industry and technology.
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B.
Oaxaca
Oaxaca is a culturally rich state in southern Mexico known for its Indigenous heritage, colonial architecture, diverse cuisine, and varied geography ranging from Pacific coastlines to rugged mountain ranges.
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Trujillo
Trujillo is a major coastal city in northwestern Peru known for its colonial architecture, cultural festivals, and proximity to important pre-Columbian archaeological sites.
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Cancún
Cancún is a major Mexican resort city on the Caribbean coast, renowned for its beaches, tourism industry, and role as a host for international conferences and summits.
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Ciudad Serdán
Ciudad Serdán is a town in the Mexican state of Puebla, known as a gateway community to the nearby Pico de Orizaba volcano and surrounding highland region.
- 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: Mérida Target entity description: Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán, known for its rich Mayan and colonial heritage and its role as a cultural and economic hub of the Yucatán Peninsula.
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A.
Guadalajara
Guadalajara is a large cultural and economic hub in western Mexico, renowned for its colonial architecture, mariachi music, and role as a major center of industry and technology.
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B.
Oaxaca
Oaxaca is a culturally rich state in southern Mexico known for its Indigenous heritage, colonial architecture, diverse cuisine, and varied geography ranging from Pacific coastlines to rugged mountain ranges.
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C.
Trujillo
Trujillo is a major coastal city in northwestern Peru known for its colonial architecture, cultural festivals, and proximity to important pre-Columbian archaeological sites.
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D.
Cancún
Cancún is a major Mexican resort city on the Caribbean coast, renowned for its beaches, tourism industry, and role as a host for international conferences and summits.
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E.
Ciudad Serdán
Ciudad Serdán is a town in the Mexican state of Puebla, known as a gateway community to the nearby Pico de Orizaba volcano and surrounding highland region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mérida Description of subject: Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán, known for its rich Mayan and colonial heritage and its role as a cultural and economic hub of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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eastern Mexico
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southern Mexico
subject linked to:
state of Yucatán
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state of Yucatán
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subject linked to:
Yucatán state
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Yucatán state
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Yucatán state
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southeastern Mexico
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