Tepanec War
E110380
The Tepanec War was a pivotal early 15th-century conflict in central Mexico in which subject city-states, led by Tenochtitlan and its allies, overthrew Tepanec dominance and cleared the way for the rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance empire.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tepanec War canonical | 1 |
| Tepanec hegemony of Azcapotzalco | 1 |
| siege of Azcapotzalco | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T924613 — 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.
Target entity: Tepanec War Context triple: [Triple Alliance, formedAfter, Tepanec War]
-
A.
Siege of Cuautla
The Siege of Cuautla was a pivotal 1812 confrontation in the Mexican War of Independence, where insurgent forces led by José María Morelos withstood a prolonged royalist siege, boosting the rebel cause despite ultimately withdrawing.
-
B.
Hualapai War
The Hualapai War was a mid-19th-century conflict between the Hualapai people and the United States in what is now Arizona, driven largely by tensions over land, resources, and encroaching settlement.
-
C.
Battle of Calderón Bridge
The Battle of Calderón Bridge was a major 1811 royalist victory over insurgent forces during the Mexican War of Independence that marked a turning point by halting the early rebel advance.
-
D.
Spanish conquest of Yucatán
The Spanish conquest of Yucatán was a protracted 16th-century campaign in which Spanish forces and their indigenous allies subdued the Maya polities of the Yucatán Peninsula, integrating the region into the Spanish colonial empire.
-
E.
Battle of Puebla
The Battle of Puebla was an 1862 military engagement during the French intervention in Mexico in which Mexican forces achieved a symbolic victory over the French, commemorated annually as Cinco de Mayo.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Tepanec War Target entity description: The Tepanec War was a pivotal early 15th-century conflict in central Mexico in which subject city-states, led by Tenochtitlan and its allies, overthrew Tepanec dominance and cleared the way for the rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance empire.
-
A.
Siege of Cuautla
The Siege of Cuautla was a pivotal 1812 confrontation in the Mexican War of Independence, where insurgent forces led by José María Morelos withstood a prolonged royalist siege, boosting the rebel cause despite ultimately withdrawing.
-
B.
Hualapai War
The Hualapai War was a mid-19th-century conflict between the Hualapai people and the United States in what is now Arizona, driven largely by tensions over land, resources, and encroaching settlement.
-
C.
Battle of Calderón Bridge
The Battle of Calderón Bridge was a major 1811 royalist victory over insurgent forces during the Mexican War of Independence that marked a turning point by halting the early rebel advance.
-
D.
Spanish conquest of Yucatán
The Spanish conquest of Yucatán was a protracted 16th-century campaign in which Spanish forces and their indigenous allies subdued the Maya polities of the Yucatán Peninsula, integrating the region into the Spanish colonial empire.
-
E.
Battle of Puebla
The Battle of Puebla was an 1862 military engagement during the French intervention in Mexico in which Mexican forces achieved a symbolic victory over the French, commemorated annually as Cinco de Mayo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican war
ⓘ
conflict ⓘ war ⓘ |
| commandedBy |
Itzcoatl
ⓘ
Nezahualcoyotl ⓘ Totoquihuaztli I ⓘ |
| conflictType | civil war within the Tepanec sphere ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Codex Chimalpahin
ⓘ
Codex Xolotl ⓘ Codex Azcatitlan ⓘ
surface form:
Crónica Mexicayotl
works of Fernando Alva Ixtlilxochitl ⓘ |
| endTime | c. 1428 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Aztec imperial expansion in Central Mexico ⓘ |
| hasCause |
Maxtla’s attempt to consolidate power over subject cities
ⓘ
Texcoco’s resistance to Tepanec domination ⓘ assassination of Chimalpopoca ⓘ succession crisis in Azcapotzalco ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
destruction of Azcapotzalco’s political dominance
ⓘ
expansion of Tenochtitlan’s power ⓘ foundation of the Aztec Empire ⓘ overthrow of Tepanec hegemony in the Valley of Mexico ⓘ redistribution of tribute rights among victorious cities ⓘ restoration of Nezahualcoyotl to the throne of Texcoco ⓘ rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
Acolhua
ⓘ
surface form:
Acolhua people
Azcapotzalco ⓘ Chalco ⓘ Coatlan ⓘ Coyoacán ⓘ
surface form:
Coyoacan
Culhuacán ⓘ
surface form:
Culhuacan
Huexotla ⓘ Itzcoatl ⓘ Maxtla ⓘ Mexica ⓘ
surface form:
Mexica (Aztecs)
Nezahualcoyotl ⓘ Tayauh ⓘ Tenochtitlan ⓘ Tepanec ⓘ
surface form:
Tepanec people
Tepetlaoztoc ⓘ Texcoco ⓘ Tlacopan polity ⓘ
surface form:
Tlacopan
Tlatelolco altepetl ⓘ
surface form:
Tlatelolco
Totoquihuaztli I ⓘ Xochimilco ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Nahuatl ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Mexico
ⓘ
Valley of Mexico ⓘ |
| mainBattle |
Tepanec War
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
siege of Azcapotzalco
|
| opposedBy | Maxtla ⓘ |
| partOf | history of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| precededBy | Tepanec expansion under Tezozomoc ⓘ |
| result |
creation of the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan
ⓘ
defeat of Maxtla ⓘ victory of the coalition led by Tenochtitlan and Texcoco ⓘ |
| significantFor |
consolidation of the political structure of the Aztec Empire
ⓘ
transition from Tepanec to Mexica dominance ⓘ |
| startTime | c. 1426 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 15th century ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Tepanec War Description of subject: The Tepanec War was a pivotal early 15th-century conflict in central Mexico in which subject city-states, led by Tenochtitlan and its allies, overthrew Tepanec dominance and cleared the way for the rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance empire.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.