Tikal
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Tikal is an ancient Maya city in present-day Guatemala, renowned for its towering pyramids, extensive ruins, and role as a powerful political and cultural center of the Classic Maya civilization.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tikal canonical | 34 |
| Tikal National Park | 17 |
| Great Plaza of Tikal | 4 |
| ancient Maya city of Tikal | 4 |
| Tikal archaeological site | 2 |
| Great Plaza complex at Tikal | 1 |
| North Acropolis of Tikal | 1 |
| Temple I at Tikal | 1 |
| Tikal central precinct | 1 |
| Tikal ceremonial core | 1 |
| Tikal royal court | 1 |
| Tikal urban core | 1 |
| Tikal, Guatemala | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T227248 — 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: Tikal Context triple: [Mesoamerica, majorSite, Tikal]
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A.
Kʼawiil
Kʼawiil is a prominent Maya deity associated with lightning, royal power, and dynastic legitimacy in Mesoamerican religion.
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B.
Huaca Pucllana
Huaca Pucllana is a pre-Inca adobe pyramid and ceremonial complex located in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru.
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C.
Ciudad de los Reyes
Ciudad de los Reyes is the historical name of Lima, the capital and largest city of Peru, founded by the Spanish in the 16th century.
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D.
Sacred Valley
Sacred Valley is a fertile and historically significant region in the Peruvian Andes renowned for its Inca archaeological sites, traditional villages, and terraced landscapes.
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E.
Ahu Tongariki
Ahu Tongariki is the largest ceremonial platform on Easter Island, famous for its restored row of 15 massive moai statues facing inland from the southeastern coast.
- 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: Tikal Target entity description: Tikal is an ancient Maya city in present-day Guatemala, renowned for its towering pyramids, extensive ruins, and role as a powerful political and cultural center of the Classic Maya civilization.
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A.
Kʼawiil
Kʼawiil is a prominent Maya deity associated with lightning, royal power, and dynastic legitimacy in Mesoamerican religion.
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B.
Huaca Pucllana
Huaca Pucllana is a pre-Inca adobe pyramid and ceremonial complex located in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru.
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C.
Ciudad de los Reyes
Ciudad de los Reyes is the historical name of Lima, the capital and largest city of Peru, founded by the Spanish in the 16th century.
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D.
Sacred Valley
Sacred Valley is a fertile and historically significant region in the Peruvian Andes renowned for its Inca archaeological sites, traditional villages, and terraced landscapes.
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E.
Ahu Tongariki
Ahu Tongariki is the largest ceremonial platform on Easter Island, famous for its restored row of 15 massive moai statues facing inland from the southeastern coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maya city
ⓘ
UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ |
| abandonedBy | 10th century CE ⓘ |
| civilizationPeriod | Classic period ⓘ |
| country | Guatemala ⓘ |
| culture | Maya ⓘ |
| earliestOccupation | Preclassic period ⓘ |
| environment | tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| floruit | c. 200 to 900 CE ⓘ |
| governingTitleOfRulers | ajaw ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalExcavationsSince | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| hasNearbyModernSettlement | Flores, Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
Central Acropolis
ⓘ
Great Plaza ⓘ Mundo Perdido complex ⓘ North Acropolis ⓘ Temple I ⓘ Temple I ⓘ
surface form:
Temple II
Temple III ⓘ Temple IV ⓘ Temple V ⓘ Twin-Pyramid complexes ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| highestPyramidHeight | approximately 70 meters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extensive ruins
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monumental architecture ⓘ role as a major Classic Maya cultural center ⓘ role as a major Classic Maya political center ⓘ stelae and altars ⓘ stepped pyramids ⓘ towering pyramids ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
western Maya lowlands
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surface form:
Maya Lowlands
Petén Department ⓘ northern Guatemala ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea |
Tikal
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Tikal National Park
|
| majorFlourishingPeriod | c. 600 to 800 CE ⓘ |
| nearbyBiosphereReserve | Maya Biosphere Reserve ⓘ |
| partOf |
Classic period in Mesoamerica
ⓘ
surface form:
Classic Maya civilization
Maya civilization ⓘ |
| primaryConstructionMaterial | limestone ⓘ |
| recognizedAsWorldHeritageFor |
cultural significance
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natural significance ⓘ |
| TempleIVHeight | approximately 70 meters ⓘ |
| tourismType |
cultural tourism
ⓘ
ecotourism ⓘ |
| UNESCORegion |
Latin America
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin America and the Caribbean
|
| writingSystem | Maya script ⓘ |
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: Tikal Description of subject: Tikal is an ancient Maya city in present-day Guatemala, renowned for its towering pyramids, extensive ruins, and role as a powerful political and cultural center of the Classic Maya civilization.
Referenced by (69)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Temple I at Tikal
this entity surface form:
Tikal, Guatemala
subject surface form:
Guatemala
this entity surface form:
Tikal National Park
this entity surface form:
Tikal National Park
this entity surface form:
Tikal National Park