Distrito Federal
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Distrito Federal was the former official name of Mexico’s capital city, now known as Mexico City, which served as the country’s federal district and political center.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Distrito Federal canonical | 7 |
| Federal District of Mexico City | 7 |
| Federal District of Mexico | 5 |
| D.F. | 2 |
| El Distrito Federal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34431 — 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: Distrito Federal Context triple: [Mexico City, formerName, Distrito Federal]
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A.
District of Columbia
The District of Columbia is the federal district of the United States that contains the nation’s capital city, Washington, D.C., and serves as the seat of the U.S. federal government.
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B.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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C.
Washington
Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, technology industry centered around Seattle, and significant cultural and economic influence on the West Coast.
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D.
Maryland
Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic U.S. state known for its Chesapeake Bay shoreline, colonial history, and proximity to the nation’s capital.
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E.
State of Mexico
The State of Mexico is a populous federal entity in central Mexico that surrounds much of Mexico City and is a major political, economic, and industrial hub of the country.
- 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: Distrito Federal Target entity description: Distrito Federal was the former official name of Mexico’s capital city, now known as Mexico City, which served as the country’s federal district and political center.
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A.
District of Columbia
The District of Columbia is the federal district of the United States that contains the nation’s capital city, Washington, D.C., and serves as the seat of the U.S. federal government.
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B.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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C.
Washington
Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, technology industry centered around Seattle, and significant cultural and economic influence on the West Coast.
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D.
Maryland
Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic U.S. state known for its Chesapeake Bay shoreline, colonial history, and proximity to the nation’s capital.
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E.
State of Mexico
The State of Mexico is a populous federal entity in central Mexico that surrounds much of Mexico City and is a major political, economic, and industrial hub of the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
former federal district ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Morelos
ⓘ
State of Mexico ⓘ |
| capital | Mexico City ⓘ |
| capitalOf |
State of Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
Mexico
|
| capitalRoleUntil | 2016 ⓘ |
| contains |
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
ⓘ
Bosque de Chapultepec ⓘ
surface form:
Chapultepec Park
Historic Centre of Mexico City ⓘ
surface form:
Historic Center of Mexico City
Mexico City ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| dissolutionReason | constitutional reform converting the federal district into Mexico City as a federal entity ⓘ |
| dissolvedOn |
2016
ⓘ
2016-01-29 ⓘ |
| executiveHead | Head of Government of the Federal District ⓘ |
| formerISOCode |
MX
ⓘ
surface form:
MX-DIF
|
| formerStatus |
federal district
ⓘ
seat of the federal powers of Mexico ⓘ |
| governmentType | federal district government ⓘ |
| highestPoint | Ajusco ⓘ |
| judicialBody | Superior Court of Justice of the Federal District ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | Legislative Assembly of the Federal District ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Central Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Valley of Mexico ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| nativeName | Distrito Federal self-link ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| officialName | Distrito Federal self-link ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
United Mexican States
|
| populationCenter | one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Mexico City
ⓘ
surface form:
Ciudad de México
Mexico City ⓘ |
| role |
political center of Mexico
ⓘ
seat of the executive branch of Mexico ⓘ seat of the judicial branch of Mexico ⓘ seat of the legislative branch of Mexico ⓘ |
| seatOfGovernment | Mexico ⓘ |
| shortName |
Distrito Federal
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
D.F.
Distrito Federal self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
El Distrito Federal
|
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| wasRenamedAs |
Mexico City
ⓘ
surface form:
Ciudad de México
Mexico City ⓘ |
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: Distrito Federal Description of subject: Distrito Federal was the former official name of Mexico’s capital city, now known as Mexico City, which served as the country’s federal district and political center.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico City
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico
this entity surface form:
D.F.
this entity surface form:
D.F.
this entity surface form:
El Distrito Federal
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico City
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico City
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico City
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico
Head of Government of the Federal District
→
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
→
Distrito Federal
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico City
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico City
this entity surface form:
Federal District of Mexico City