muxe
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A muxe is a person in Zapotec culture, particularly in Oaxaca, Mexico, who is assigned male at birth but embodies a feminine or nonbinary gender role recognized as a distinct, traditional third gender.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| muxe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10689354 — 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: muxe Context triple: [Juchitán de Zaragoza, hasNotableGroup, muxe]
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A.
MUT
MUT is the station code for Meerut Cantt railway station in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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B.
MUF
MUF is the youth wing of Sweden's Moderate Party, engaging young people in center-right politics and policy issues.
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C.
MUG
MUG is the commonly used abbreviation for the Medical University of Gdańsk, a major medical education and research institution in Poland.
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D.
Mul
Mul is a town in Maharashtra, India, known as a local commercial and administrative center within Chandrapur district.
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E.
MUGI
MUGI is a stream cipher designed by cryptographer Joan Daemen, known for its role in modern symmetric-key cryptography research.
- 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: muxe Target entity description: A muxe is a person in Zapotec culture, particularly in Oaxaca, Mexico, who is assigned male at birth but embodies a feminine or nonbinary gender role recognized as a distinct, traditional third gender.
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A.
MUT
MUT is the station code for Meerut Cantt railway station in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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B.
MUF
MUF is the youth wing of Sweden's Moderate Party, engaging young people in center-right politics and policy issues.
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C.
MUG
MUG is the commonly used abbreviation for the Medical University of Gdańsk, a major medical education and research institution in Poland.
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D.
Mul
Mul is a town in Maharashtra, India, known as a local commercial and administrative center within Chandrapur district.
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E.
MUGI
MUGI is a stream cipher designed by cryptographer Joan Daemen, known for its role in modern symmetric-key cryptography research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gender identity
ⓘ
social role ⓘ third gender ⓘ |
| assignedSexAtBirth | male ⓘ |
| associatedEthnicGroup | Zapotec people ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Vela de las Intrépidas ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Western binary gender norms ⓘ |
| embodiesGenderExpression |
feminine
ⓘ
nonbinary ⓘ |
| genderCategoryIncludes |
people with feminine gender roles
ⓘ
people with male-assigned bodies ⓘ people with nonbinary gender roles ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
Mexico
ⓘ
Oaxaca ⓘ Zapotec culture ⓘ
linked to:
Zapotec civilization
|
| hasDimension |
gender expression
ⓘ
gender identity ⓘ social role ⓘ |
| hasRepresentationIn |
Mexican media
ⓘ
anthropological literature ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
community rituals
ⓘ
family life ⓘ local economy ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus |
often socially integrated
ⓘ
sometimes honored in community ⓘ |
| historicallyDocumentedSince | at least 20th century ⓘ |
| isExampleOf | indigenous third-gender tradition ⓘ |
| isPartOf | indigenous gender systems in Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | Zapotec ⓘ |
| mayEngageIn |
artisanal work
ⓘ
care work ⓘ commerce ⓘ |
| mayPractice |
Catholicism
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| notIdenticalTo |
Western concept of gay man
ⓘ
Western concept of transgender woman ⓘ |
| primarilyFoundIn |
Isthmus of Tehuantepec
ⓘ
Juchitán de Zaragoza ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
distinct gender category
ⓘ
traditional third gender ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
Zapotec communities
ⓘ
linked to:
Zapotec people
|
| relatedConcept |
faʻafafine
ⓘ
hijra ⓘ two-spirit ⓘ |
| sometimesComparedTo |
nonbinary identities
ⓘ
transgender identities ⓘ |
| spelledVariant | muxhe ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
LGBTQ+ studies
ⓘ
anthropological research ⓘ gender studies ⓘ |
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: muxe Description of subject: A muxe is a person in Zapotec culture, particularly in Oaxaca, Mexico, who is assigned male at birth but embodies a feminine or nonbinary gender role recognized as a distinct, traditional third gender.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.