Maya coastal trade network

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maritime trade system prehistoric trade route system trade network

The Maya coastal trade network was an extensive system of maritime and shoreline routes that facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and cultural influences among Maya cities and other Mesoamerican regions along the Gulf and Caribbean coasts.

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Label	Occurrences
Maya coastal trade network canonical	1
Maya maritime trade network	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11005360 — 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.

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Target entity: Maya coastal trade network
Context triple: [Ah Kim Pech, partOf, Maya coastal trade network]

A. Maya city‑states
The Maya city-states were independent, often rivalrous urban centers in Mesoamerica, each ruled by its own king and serving as political, religious, and economic hubs of Maya civilization.
B. Maya resistance in Yucatán
The Maya resistance in Yucatán was a prolonged series of indigenous uprisings and guerrilla struggles by the Maya peoples against Spanish colonial and later Mexican rule in the Yucatán Peninsula.
C. Mundo Maya
Mundo Maya is a themed exhibit area that immerses visitors in the wildlife, ecosystems, and cultural heritage of the ancient Mayan region.
D. Olmecas de Tabasco
Olmecas de Tabasco is a professional baseball team from the Mexican state of Tabasco that competes in the Mexican League.
E. Pre-Columbian Oaxaca
Pre-Columbian Oaxaca refers to the culturally rich region in southern Mexico that was home to advanced Indigenous civilizations such as the Zapotecs and Mixtecs before Spanish contact.
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: Maya coastal trade network
Target entity description: The Maya coastal trade network was an extensive system of maritime and shoreline routes that facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and cultural influences among Maya cities and other Mesoamerican regions along the Gulf and Caribbean coasts.

A. Maya city‑states
The Maya city-states were independent, often rivalrous urban centers in Mesoamerica, each ruled by its own king and serving as political, religious, and economic hubs of Maya civilization.
B. Maya resistance in Yucatán
The Maya resistance in Yucatán was a prolonged series of indigenous uprisings and guerrilla struggles by the Maya peoples against Spanish colonial and later Mexican rule in the Yucatán Peninsula.
C. Mundo Maya
Mundo Maya is a themed exhibit area that immerses visitors in the wildlife, ecosystems, and cultural heritage of the ancient Mayan region.
D. Olmecas de Tabasco
Olmecas de Tabasco is a professional baseball team from the Mexican state of Tabasco that competes in the Mexican League.
E. Pre-Columbian Oaxaca
Pre-Columbian Oaxaca refers to the culturally rich region in southern Mexico that was home to advanced Indigenous civilizations such as the Zapotecs and Mixtecs before Spanish contact.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	maritime trade system ⓘ prehistoric trade route system ⓘ trade network ⓘ
archaeologicalEvidence	foreign ceramics at coastal sites ⓘ port facilities ⓘ shell and coral artifacts inland ⓘ
connected	Caribbean regions of Mesoamerica ⓘ Central Mexican trade networks ⓘ Gulf Coast regions of Mesoamerica ⓘ linked to: Mexican Gulf lowlands highland Maya trade routes ⓘ inland Maya cities ⓘ
culturalRole	mediated interregional interaction ⓘ spread foreign iconography ⓘ supported pilgrimage traffic ⓘ
economicRole	facilitated long-distance exchange ⓘ integrated regional economies ⓘ supported elite consumption ⓘ
enabled	diffusion of technological knowledge ⓘ exchange of ideas ⓘ spread of artistic styles ⓘ spread of religious practices ⓘ
geographicRegion	Belize coast ⓘ linked to: Caribbean coast of Belize Caribbean Sea coast ⓘ linked to: Caribbean Sea coastline Guatemala Caribbean coast ⓘ linked to: southeastern Guatemala Gulf of Mexico coast ⓘ linked to: Gulf of Mexico coastline Honduras Caribbean coast ⓘ linked to: Caribbean coast of Honduras Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ
hadNodeType	coastal trading town ⓘ island waystation ⓘ port city ⓘ
involvedActivity	portage between rivers and coasts ⓘ
linkedTo	Calakmul via overland connections ⓘ Chichén Itzá ⓘ Copán via riverine routes ⓘ Mayapán ⓘ
majorPort	Champotón ⓘ Cozumel ⓘ Isla Cerritos ⓘ Nito ⓘ Tulum ⓘ Xcaret ⓘ linked to: Xcaret Park Xelha ⓘ
navigationFeature	daytime coastal navigation ⓘ use of islands as landmarks ⓘ
operatedInPeriod	Classic period ⓘ Postclassic period ⓘ Preclassic period ⓘ
technology	dugout canoes ⓘ
timeDepth	several centuries of continuous use ⓘ
transportedGood	cacao ⓘ ceramics ⓘ cotton textiles ⓘ feathers ⓘ jade ⓘ marine resources ⓘ metal objects in Late Postclassic period ⓘ obsidian ⓘ quartz ⓘ salt ⓘ shells ⓘ
transportMode	canoes ⓘ shoreline navigation ⓘ
usedBy	Maya civilization ⓘ