Valle del Mezquital
E169557
Valle del Mezquital is a semi-arid cultural and agricultural region in central Mexico known for its indigenous Otomí communities and traditional maguey cultivation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valle del Mezquital canonical | 3 |
| Mezquital Valley | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1444397 — 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: Valle del Mezquital Context triple: [Hidalgo, hasRegion, Valle del Mezquital]
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A.
Valle de la Trinidad
Valle de la Trinidad is a region in northern Baja California, Mexico, known as part of the ancestral homeland of the Indigenous Kiliwa people.
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B.
Puebla Valley
Puebla Valley is a highland basin in central Mexico known for its fertile agricultural lands and proximity to the city of Puebla and the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanoes.
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C.
Valle de Guadalupe
Valle de Guadalupe is Mexico’s premier wine-producing region, renowned for its vineyards, boutique wineries, and gourmet food scene in the state of Baja California.
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D.
Guarijío
Guarijío is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Guarijío people of northern Mexico, particularly in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora.
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E.
Ocoyoacac
Ocoyoacac is a municipality in the State of Mexico located on the western edge of the Valley of Mexico, known for its forests, mountainous terrain, and proximity to Mexico City.
- 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: Valle del Mezquital Target entity description: Valle del Mezquital is a semi-arid cultural and agricultural region in central Mexico known for its indigenous Otomí communities and traditional maguey cultivation.
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A.
Valle de la Trinidad
Valle de la Trinidad is a region in northern Baja California, Mexico, known as part of the ancestral homeland of the Indigenous Kiliwa people.
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B.
Puebla Valley
Puebla Valley is a highland basin in central Mexico known for its fertile agricultural lands and proximity to the city of Puebla and the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanoes.
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C.
Valle de Guadalupe
Valle de Guadalupe is Mexico’s premier wine-producing region, renowned for its vineyards, boutique wineries, and gourmet food scene in the state of Baja California.
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D.
Guarijío
Guarijío is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Guarijío people of northern Mexico, particularly in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora.
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E.
Ocoyoacac
Ocoyoacac is a municipality in the State of Mexico located on the western edge of the Valley of Mexico, known for its forests, mountainous terrain, and proximity to Mexico City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agricultural region
ⓘ
cultural region ⓘ geographical region ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| hasAgriculturalPractice |
terracing in some areas
ⓘ
use of maguey for soil conservation ⓘ |
| hasClimate | semi-arid ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage |
Otomí cuisine
ⓘ
traditional Otomí dress ⓘ traditional Otomí festivals ⓘ traditional irrigation systems ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
handicrafts ⓘ livestock raising ⓘ maguey sap extraction ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalCharacteristic |
high solar radiation
ⓘ
water scarcity ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Hñähñu (Otomí) ⓘ |
| hasHydrology | limited surface water ⓘ |
| hasIndigenousPeople |
Otomi
ⓘ
surface form:
Otomí
|
| hasLandUse |
irrigated agriculture
ⓘ
rainfed agriculture ⓘ |
| hasMainLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasNameMeaning | Mezquital Valley in Spanish ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | high proportion of indigenous inhabitants ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryCrop |
barley
ⓘ
beans ⓘ maguey (agave) ⓘ maize ⓘ |
| hasReligion | predominantly Roman Catholic with indigenous syncretism ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryLanguage |
Otomi
ⓘ
surface form:
Otomí
|
| hasSoilType | semi-arid soils ⓘ |
| hasTopography | valley ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalCulture | Otomí cultural practices ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalLanguage |
Otomi language
ⓘ
surface form:
Otomí language
|
| hasTraditionalProduct |
maguey fiber (ixtle)
ⓘ
maguey syrup ⓘ pulque ⓘ |
| hasVegetation |
maguey stands
ⓘ
xerophytic vegetation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agave-based agriculture
ⓘ
dryland farming practices ⓘ pulque production ⓘ traditional maguey cultivation ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Hidalgo (state)
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Hidalgo
|
| partOf |
La Huasteca Hidalguense
ⓘ
surface form:
Hidalgo cultural regions
Mexican Plateau ⓘ |
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: Valle del Mezquital Description of subject: Valle del Mezquital is a semi-arid cultural and agricultural region in central Mexico known for its indigenous Otomí communities and traditional maguey cultivation.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mezquital Valley
this entity surface form:
Mezquital Valley