Tlachihualtepetl Pyramid

E244702

The Tlachihualtepetl Pyramid is an ancient Mesoamerican temple complex in Cholula, Mexico, considered the largest pyramid in the world by volume and notable for its layered construction and colonial church built atop it.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tlachihualtepetl Pyramid canonical 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican pyramid
archaeological site
temple complex
tourist attraction
abandonedBy time of Spanish conquest
alsoKnownAs Great Pyramid of Cholula
Tlachihualtepetl
baseLength approximately 450 meters
baseWidth approximately 450 meters
comparedTo larger in volume than the Great Pyramid of Giza
constructionBegan around 3rd century BCE
constructionPhases multiple superimposed phases
country Mexico
culture Aztec culture
surface form: Aztec

Cholula culture
Olmec-Xicalanca
Toltec civilization
surface form: Toltec
currentReligionAtop Roman Catholicism
dedicatedTo Quetzalcoatl
estimatedVolume approximately 4.45 million cubic meters
excavationBegan 1930s
hasBaseArea approximately 18 hectares
hasConstructionType adobe brick
earth-filled platform
hasFeature colonial church on summit
layered construction
subterranean tunnels
superimposed pyramidal stages
hasTopStructure Nuestra Señora de los Remedios Church
surface form: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios
hasTunnelLength several kilometers of excavated tunnels
height approximately 66 meters
heritageStatus part of the Historic Centre of Puebla and Cholula
isLargestBy volume among pyramids worldwide
locatedIn San Andrés Cholula
surface form: Cholula

Mesoamerica
Mexico
Puebla
locatedInTimeZone Central Time Zone
surface form: Central Standard Time
material adobe
stone facing in some phases
near Iztaccíhuatl
surface form: Iztaccíhuatl volcano

Popocatépetl
surface form: Popocatépetl volcano
numberOfMajorPhases at least four
overlainBy Spanish colonial church
partOf Mesoamerica
surface form: Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
rediscovered in the 20th century
religion Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican religion
tourismActivity guided tours of tunnels and site
usedFor pilgrimage
religious ceremonies
ritual offerings

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: Tlachihualtepetl Pyramid
Description of subject: The Tlachihualtepetl Pyramid is an ancient Mesoamerican temple complex in Cholula, Mexico, considered the largest pyramid in the world by volume and notable for its layered construction and colonial church built atop it.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Great Pyramid of Cholula alsoKnownAs Tlachihualtepetl Pyramid