Colima Territory
E51134
Colima Territory was a former federal territory in western Mexico that later became the state of Colima.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colima Territory canonical | 1 |
| Free and Sovereign State of Colima | 1 |
| State of Colima | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T343760 — 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: Colima Territory Context triple: [Mexican Constitution of 1824, createdTerritory, Colima Territory]
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A.
Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city-state and region in central Mexico known for its fierce independence from the Aztec Empire and its pivotal alliance with Spanish conquistadors.
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B.
Puebla
Puebla is a historic and culturally rich city in central Mexico, renowned for its colonial architecture, culinary traditions like mole poblano, and its role in the Battle of Puebla commemorated on Cinco de Mayo.
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C.
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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D.
San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí is a central Mexican state known for its diverse landscapes—from the arid high plateau to the lush Huasteca region—rich mining history, and colonial-era architecture.
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E.
Nayarit
Nayarit is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its beaches, coastal resorts, and diverse mountainous and tropical landscapes.
- 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: Colima Territory Target entity description: Colima Territory was a former federal territory in western Mexico that later became the state of Colima.
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A.
Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city-state and region in central Mexico known for its fierce independence from the Aztec Empire and its pivotal alliance with Spanish conquistadors.
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B.
Puebla
Puebla is a historic and culturally rich city in central Mexico, renowned for its colonial architecture, culinary traditions like mole poblano, and its role in the Battle of Puebla commemorated on Cinco de Mayo.
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C.
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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D.
San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí is a central Mexican state known for its diverse landscapes—from the arid high plateau to the lush Huasteca region—rich mining history, and colonial-era architecture.
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E.
Nayarit
Nayarit is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its beaches, coastal resorts, and diverse mountainous and tropical landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former federal territory of Mexico ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Jalisco
ⓘ
Michoacán ⓘ |
| capital | Colima City ⓘ |
| category | Former federal territories of Mexico ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| followedBy |
State of Colima
ⓘ
linked to:
Colima
|
| formerSubdivisionOf | Mexican Federation ⓘ |
| governmentType | federal territory administration ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor |
Free and Sovereign State of Colima
ⓘ
linked to:
Colima Territory
|
| historicalRegion |
Occidente (Western Mexico)
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Mexico
|
| historicalRole | precursor to the modern state of Colima ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| legalStatus | federal territory under Mexican constitution of its time ⓘ |
| locatedIn | western Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Pacific coast of Mexico ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Colima City ⓘ |
| partOf |
Centralist Republic of Mexico
ⓘ
First Mexican Republic ⓘ Second Mexican Empire ⓘ United Mexican States ⓘ
linked to:
Mexico
|
| predecessorOf |
State of Colima
ⓘ
linked to:
Colima Territory
|
| region | Colima ⓘ |
| sovereignState | Mexico ⓘ |
| status | defunct administrative division ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
19th–20th centuries ⓘ |
| usedCurrency | Mexican peso ⓘ |
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: Colima Territory Description of subject: Colima Territory was a former federal territory in western Mexico that later became the state of Colima.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Colima Territory
linked to: Colima Territory