Chol Maya
E341784
Chol Maya are an indigenous Maya people of southern Mexico, primarily living in the state of Chiapas, known for their distinct Mayan language and traditional agricultural and cultural practices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chol Maya canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3266173 — 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: Chol Maya Context triple: [Chiapas, containsEthnicGroup, Chol Maya]
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A.
Gukumatz
Gukumatz is a feathered serpent deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya, closely associated with creation, wind, and wisdom and identified with the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl.
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B.
Ayar Cachi
Ayar Cachi is a figure from Inca mythology, traditionally regarded as one of the four Ayar brothers associated with the legendary origins of the Inca people.
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C.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
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D.
Poqomam Maya
The Poqomam Maya are an indigenous Maya people of Guatemala and neighboring regions, known for their distinct Mayan language and cultural traditions that persisted despite colonial-era conflicts and displacement.
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E.
Mama Cocha
Mama Cocha is a sea and water goddess in Inca mythology, revered as a protective mother figure of the oceans and sailors.
- 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: Chol Maya Target entity description: Chol Maya are an indigenous Maya people of southern Mexico, primarily living in the state of Chiapas, known for their distinct Mayan language and traditional agricultural and cultural practices.
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A.
Gukumatz
Gukumatz is a feathered serpent deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya, closely associated with creation, wind, and wisdom and identified with the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl.
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B.
Ayar Cachi
Ayar Cachi is a figure from Inca mythology, traditionally regarded as one of the four Ayar brothers associated with the legendary origins of the Inca people.
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C.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
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D.
Poqomam Maya
The Poqomam Maya are an indigenous Maya people of Guatemala and neighboring regions, known for their distinct Mayan language and cultural traditions that persisted despite colonial-era conflicts and displacement.
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E.
Mama Cocha
Mama Cocha is a sea and water goddess in Inca mythology, revered as a protective mother figure of the oceans and sailors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maya people
ⓘ
indigenous people ⓘ |
| artForm |
ceramics
ⓘ
textile weaving ⓘ wood carving ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| culturalPractice |
communal land use
ⓘ
rituals tied to agricultural calendar ⓘ traditional healing practices ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Maya area ⓘ |
| culturalRevitalizationEffort |
bilingual education in Chol and Spanish
ⓘ
documentation of Chol oral traditions ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf | Mexico ⓘ |
| facesIssue |
economic marginalization
ⓘ
land conflicts ⓘ linguistic assimilation pressure ⓘ |
| governingCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| indigenousTo | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| language | Chol language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern Mexico ⓘ |
| partOf | Maya civilization descendants ⓘ |
| populationTrend | growing in absolute numbers in recent decades ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Chiapas ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | indigenous people of Mexico ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Lacandon
ⓘ
surface form:
Lacandon Maya
Tzeltal Maya ⓘ Tzotzil ⓘ
surface form:
Tzotzil Maya
Yucatec Maya ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
Maya traditional religion ⓘ Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| traditionalCrop |
beans
ⓘ
maize ⓘ squash ⓘ |
| traditionalDress | embroidered garments ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | wooden houses with thatched roofs ⓘ |
| traditionalMusic |
drum and flute ensembles
ⓘ
marimba-based music ⓘ |
| traditionalPractice | milpa agriculture ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence | agriculture ⓘ |
| usesCalendarElements | Maya ritual calendar (in syncretic forms) ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Chol Maya Description of subject: Chol Maya are an indigenous Maya people of southern Mexico, primarily living in the state of Chiapas, known for their distinct Mayan language and traditional agricultural and cultural practices.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.