Cobá
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Cobá is an ancient Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, known for its extensive network of sacbeob (raised stone roads) and towering pyramid structures amid dense jungle.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cobá canonical | 18 |
| Cobá region | 2 |
| Cobá village | 2 |
| Cobá city-state | 1 |
| Cobá, Quintana Roo | 1 |
| Cobá, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T351714 — 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: Cobá Context triple: [Yucatán Peninsula, hasArchaeologicalSite, Cobá]
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A.
Tenayuca
Tenayuca is a station and northern terminus of Mexico City’s Metrobús Line 3, serving as a key public transit hub in the area.
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B.
Oaxaca
Oaxaca is a culturally rich state in southern Mexico known for its Indigenous heritage, colonial architecture, diverse cuisine, and varied geography ranging from Pacific coastlines to rugged mountain ranges.
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C.
Tláhuac
Tláhuac is a largely semi-rural borough in the southeastern part of Mexico City, known for its chinampas (traditional canal-based agriculture) and rapid urbanization.
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D.
Palenque
Palenque is an ancient Maya city in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, renowned for its well-preserved temples, palaces, and intricate inscriptions.
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E.
Puebla
Puebla is a historic and culturally rich city in central Mexico, renowned for its colonial architecture, culinary traditions like mole poblano, and its role in the Battle of Puebla commemorated on Cinco de Mayo.
- 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: Cobá Target entity description: Cobá is an ancient Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, known for its extensive network of sacbeob (raised stone roads) and towering pyramid structures amid dense jungle.
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A.
Tenayuca
Tenayuca is a station and northern terminus of Mexico City’s Metrobús Line 3, serving as a key public transit hub in the area.
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B.
Oaxaca
Oaxaca is a culturally rich state in southern Mexico known for its Indigenous heritage, colonial architecture, diverse cuisine, and varied geography ranging from Pacific coastlines to rugged mountain ranges.
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C.
Tláhuac
Tláhuac is a largely semi-rural borough in the southeastern part of Mexico City, known for its chinampas (traditional canal-based agriculture) and rapid urbanization.
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D.
Palenque
Palenque is an ancient Maya city in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, renowned for its well-preserved temples, palaces, and intricate inscriptions.
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E.
Puebla
Puebla is a historic and culturally rich city in central Mexico, renowned for its colonial architecture, culinary traditions like mole poblano, and its role in the Battle of Puebla commemorated on Cinco de Mayo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Maya city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ pyramid ⓘ sacbe ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| abandonment | gradual after 10th century ⓘ |
| civilization | Maya civilization ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Yaxuná ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Yaxuná ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| culture |
Pre-Columbian era
ⓘ
surface form:
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
|
| discoveredBy | John Lloyd Stephens ⓘ |
| distanceFromTulum | about 40 kilometers northwest ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalFeature |
ballcourts
ⓘ
causeways ⓘ palace groups ⓘ stelae ⓘ temple pyramids ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle | Maya architecture ⓘ |
| hasArtifactType | inscribed stelae ⓘ |
| hasGroup |
Grupo Cobá
ⓘ
Grupo Las Pinturas ⓘ Grupo Las Pinturas ⓘ
surface form:
Grupo Macanxoc
Grupo Nohoch Mul ⓘ |
| hasRoadNetwork | sacbeob ⓘ |
| hasSacbe | Sacbe 1 ⓘ |
| hasStructure | Nohoch Mul pyramid ⓘ |
| height | about 42 meters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extensive network of sacbeob
ⓘ
jungle setting ⓘ raised stone roads ⓘ tall pyramid structures ⓘ |
| length | over 100 kilometers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cobá
self-linksurface differs
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Mesoamerica ⓘ
surface form:
Maya Lowlands
Quintana Roo ⓘ Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ Tulum ⓘ
surface form:
municipality of Tulum
|
| nearbyFeature |
Lake Cobá
ⓘ
Lake Macanxoc ⓘ lagoons ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| peakPopulation | circa 600–900 CE ⓘ |
| periodOfFlourishing |
Classic period
ⓘ
Late Classic period ⓘ Classic period ⓘ
surface form:
Terminal Classic period
|
| regionLanguage |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Yucatec Maya
|
| startDate | circa 1st century CE ⓘ |
| surveyedBy | Teobert Maler ⓘ |
| tourismActivity | climbing Nohoch Mul pyramid (historically allowed) ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Maya hieroglyphs ⓘ |
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: Cobá Description of subject: Cobá is an ancient Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, known for its extensive network of sacbeob (raised stone roads) and towering pyramid structures amid dense jungle.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Quintana Roo
subject surface form:
Riviera Maya
this entity surface form:
Cobá, Quintana Roo, Mexico
this entity surface form:
Cobá city-state
this entity surface form:
Cobá, Quintana Roo
this entity surface form:
Cobá village
this entity surface form:
Cobá region
this entity surface form:
Cobá village