La Malinche
E18774
Nahua woman
advisor
cultural intermediary
historical figure
indigenous person of the Americas
interpreter
slave
translator
La Malinche was a Nahua woman who served as Hernán Cortés’s interpreter, advisor, and intermediary, playing a pivotal role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Malinche canonical | 9 |
| Malintzin | 5 |
| Doña Marina | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156462 — 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: La Malinche Context triple: [Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, hasCommander, La Malinche]
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A.
Tituba
Tituba was an enslaved woman of Indigenous and African descent whose accusations and testimony helped ignite the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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B.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez was a prominent Mexican insurgent and conspirator whose actions helped spark the Mexican War of Independence.
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C.
Cuauhtémoc
Cuauhtémoc is a central borough of Mexico City known for its historic downtown, major cultural landmarks, and political and economic significance.
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D.
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador best known for leading the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under Spanish rule in the early 16th century.
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E.
Esperanza
Esperanza is a small coastal village on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, known for its seaside promenade, beaches, and access to the nearby bioluminescent bay.
- 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: La Malinche Target entity description: La Malinche was a Nahua woman who served as Hernán Cortés’s interpreter, advisor, and intermediary, playing a pivotal role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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A.
Tituba
Tituba was an enslaved woman of Indigenous and African descent whose accusations and testimony helped ignite the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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B.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez was a prominent Mexican insurgent and conspirator whose actions helped spark the Mexican War of Independence.
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C.
Cuauhtémoc
Cuauhtémoc is a central borough of Mexico City known for its historic downtown, major cultural landmarks, and political and economic significance.
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D.
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador best known for leading the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under Spanish rule in the early 16th century.
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E.
Esperanza
Esperanza is a small coastal village on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, known for its seaside promenade, beaches, and access to the nearby bioluminescent bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nahua woman
ⓘ
advisor ⓘ cultural intermediary ⓘ historical figure ⓘ indigenous person of the Americas ⓘ interpreter ⓘ slave ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Aztec Empire
ⓘ
Hernán Cortés ⓘ Spanish conquest of Mexico ⓘ Tlaxcala ⓘ |
| birthPlace | region of the Gulf Coast of Mexico ⓘ |
| child |
Martín Cortés (son with Malintzin)
ⓘ
surface form:
Martín Cortés (son of Hernán Cortés)
|
| convertedFrom | indigenous Mesoamerican religion ⓘ |
| culture | Mesoamerican ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | La Malinche self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Nahua ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasName |
La Malinche
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Doña Marina
La Malinche self-link ⓘ Malinalli ⓘ La Malinche self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Malintzin
|
| historicalRegion |
Viceroyalty of New Spain
ⓘ
surface form:
New Spain
|
| influenced | Spanish-indigenous diplomatic relations in early conquest period ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Mayan language
ⓘ
Nahuan languages ⓘ
surface form:
Nahuatl
Spanish ⓘ |
| laterStatus | baptized noblewoman in Spanish colonial society ⓘ |
| legacy |
controversial figure in Mexican cultural memory
ⓘ
symbol of cultural mediation between Europe and indigenous America ⓘ |
| nameUsedAs | term "malinchismo" in Mexican Spanish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acting as intermediary between Spaniards and indigenous peoples
ⓘ
role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire ⓘ serving as interpreter for Hernán Cortés ⓘ |
| occupation |
advisor
ⓘ
cultural broker ⓘ interpreter ⓘ |
| partner | Hernán Cortés ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
foundational mother of mestizo Mexico in some narratives
ⓘ
traitor in some Mexican nationalist narratives ⓘ victim of colonialism in some interpretations ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
ⓘ
fall of Tenochtitlan ⓘ |
| sourceMention |
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
ⓘ
surface form:
chronicles of Bernal Díaz del Castillo
|
| status | enslaved before being given to the Spaniards ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
| workedFor | Hernán Cortés ⓘ |
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: La Malinche Description of subject: La Malinche was a Nahua woman who served as Hernán Cortés’s interpreter, advisor, and intermediary, playing a pivotal role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Malintzin
this entity surface form:
Doña Marina
subject surface form:
term "malinchismo"
this entity surface form:
Malintzin
this entity surface form:
Doña Marina
this entity surface form:
Malintzin
this entity surface form:
Malintzin
this entity surface form:
Doña Marina
this entity surface form:
Malintzin