Tampico, Mexico
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Tampico, Mexico is a major port city on the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas, known historically for its oil industry and commercial significance.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tampico | 35 |
| Port of Tampico | 4 |
| Tampico, Tamaulipas | 3 |
| Tampico, Mexico canonical | 2 |
| Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico | 2 |
| Tampico area | 1 |
| Tampico port | 1 |
| city of Tampico | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T639381 — 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: Tampico, Mexico Context triple: [Tampico, Illinois, namedAfter, Tampico, Mexico]
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Port of Veracruz
The Port of Veracruz is one of Mexico’s oldest and most important seaports, serving as a key hub for international trade on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Tampico, Illinois, United States
Tampico, Illinois, United States, is a small rural village best known as the birthplace of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States.
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Texcoco, Mexico
Texcoco, Mexico is a municipality in the State of Mexico known for its agricultural research institutions, historical significance near ancient Lake Texcoco, and proximity to Mexico City.
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Acapulco
Acapulco is a historic Mexican Pacific coastal city that flourished as a major colonial-era seaport and remains a prominent tourist destination.
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Campeche
Campeche is a historic coastal city in southeastern Mexico known for its well-preserved colonial fortifications and colorful architecture on the Gulf of Mexico.
- 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: Tampico, Mexico Target entity description: Tampico, Mexico is a major port city on the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas, known historically for its oil industry and commercial significance.
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A.
Port of Veracruz
The Port of Veracruz is one of Mexico’s oldest and most important seaports, serving as a key hub for international trade on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Tampico, Illinois, United States
Tampico, Illinois, United States, is a small rural village best known as the birthplace of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States.
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Texcoco, Mexico
Texcoco, Mexico is a municipality in the State of Mexico known for its agricultural research institutions, historical significance near ancient Lake Texcoco, and proximity to Mexico City.
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Acapulco
Acapulco is a historic Mexican Pacific coastal city that flourished as a major colonial-era seaport and remains a prominent tourist destination.
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E.
Campeche
Campeche is a historic coastal city in southeastern Mexico known for its well-preserved colonial fortifications and colorful architecture on the Gulf of Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Tampico, Mexico Description of subject: Tampico, Mexico is a major port city on the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas, known historically for its oil industry and commercial significance.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Tampico, Illinois, United States
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eastern Mexico
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eastern Mexico
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Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (campus Tampico)
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