Chʼol Maya
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Chʼol Maya are an indigenous Maya people of southern Mexico known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich ritual and cultural practices.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chʼol Maya canonical | 5 |
| Chol Maya | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9778193 — 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: Chʼol Maya Context triple: [Maya peoples, hasSubgroup, Chʼol Maya]
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A.
Kʼicheʼ Maya
The Kʼicheʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic and cultural heritage and for preserving traditions that predate the Spanish conquest.
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B.
Qʼeqchiʼ Maya
Qʼeqchiʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of Guatemala and Belize known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agrarian lifestyle, and strong preservation of cultural and spiritual practices.
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C.
Poqomchiʼ Maya
The Poqomchiʼ Maya are an indigenous Mayan people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich ceremonial and cultural practices.
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D.
Tojolabal Maya
Tojolabal Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tojolabal people in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico.
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E.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
- 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: Chʼol Maya Target entity description: Chʼol Maya are an indigenous Maya people of southern Mexico known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich ritual and cultural practices.
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A.
Kʼicheʼ Maya
The Kʼicheʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic and cultural heritage and for preserving traditions that predate the Spanish conquest.
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B.
Qʼeqchiʼ Maya
Qʼeqchiʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of Guatemala and Belize known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agrarian lifestyle, and strong preservation of cultural and spiritual practices.
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C.
Poqomchiʼ Maya
The Poqomchiʼ Maya are an indigenous Mayan people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich ceremonial and cultural practices.
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D.
Tojolabal Maya
Tojolabal Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tojolabal people in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico.
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E.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maya people
ⓘ
indigenous people ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Usumacinta River region ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| culture | Maya culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf | Mexico ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage |
Maya cosmology
ⓘ
Mesoamerican calendar traditions ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractice |
oral tradition
ⓘ
ritual ceremonies ⓘ traditional dance ⓘ traditional dress ⓘ traditional music ⓘ |
| hasSocialOrganization |
community assemblies
ⓘ
extended family networks ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalBelief |
agricultural rituals
ⓘ
veneration of natural spirits ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalKnowledge |
forest management
ⓘ
herbal medicine ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Palenque area
ⓘ
linked to:
Palenque
|
| languageBranch |
Western Maya languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Mayan languages
|
| languageFamily | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chiapas
ⓘ
Tabasco ⓘ southern Mexico ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mesoamerican indigenous peoples
ⓘ
indigenous peoples of Mexico ⓘ |
| populationGroupIn |
Chiapas
ⓘ
Tabasco ⓘ |
| practices |
maize cultivation
ⓘ
milpa agriculture ⓘ traditional agriculture ⓘ |
| region |
Maya Lowlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Maya lowlands
|
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Lacandon Maya
ⓘ
linked to:
Lacandon
Tzeltal Maya ⓘ Tzotzil Maya ⓘ
linked to:
Tzotzil
Yucatec Maya ⓘ |
| religion |
Maya religion
ⓘ
Protestantism ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Maya civilization ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
agriculture
ⓘ
gathering ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
Chʼol language
ⓘ
linked to:
Chol language
|
| usesWritingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
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: Chʼol Maya Description of subject: Chʼol Maya are an indigenous Maya people of southern Mexico known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich ritual and cultural practices.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.