Malacatán
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Malacatán is a municipality and town in western Guatemala, located near the Mexican border in the department of San Marcos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malacatán canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5949691 — 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: Malacatán Context triple: [San Marcos Department, hasMunicipality, Malacatán]
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A.
Bajío
Bajío is a fertile, economically important region in central-western Mexico known for its agriculture, industry, and colonial cities.
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B.
Soconusco
Soconusco is a historically significant coastal region in southern Mexico known for its fertile land and major production of coffee, cacao, and tropical fruits.
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C.
Tlalpan
Tlalpan is one of the largest and southernmost boroughs of Mexico City, known for its extensive green areas, historic center, and mix of urban and rural zones.
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D.
Huichapan
Huichapan is a historic town and municipality in central Mexico known for its colonial architecture and role in the country’s independence movement.
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E.
Calumpit
Calumpit is a historic riverside municipality in the province of Bulacan in the Philippines, known for its role in the Philippine Revolution and its annual religious and cultural festivals.
- 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: Malacatán Target entity description: Malacatán is a municipality and town in western Guatemala, located near the Mexican border in the department of San Marcos.
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A.
Bajío
Bajío is a fertile, economically important region in central-western Mexico known for its agriculture, industry, and colonial cities.
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B.
Soconusco
Soconusco is a historically significant coastal region in southern Mexico known for its fertile land and major production of coffee, cacao, and tropical fruits.
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C.
Tlalpan
Tlalpan is one of the largest and southernmost boroughs of Mexico City, known for its extensive green areas, historic center, and mix of urban and rural zones.
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D.
Huichapan
Huichapan is a historic town and municipality in central Mexico known for its colonial architecture and role in the country’s independence movement.
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E.
Calumpit
Calumpit is a historic riverside municipality in the province of Bulacan in the Philippines, known for its role in the Philippine Revolution and its annual religious and cultural festivals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionLevel | municipality-level ⓘ |
| borderRegion | Guatemala–Mexico border region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderWith | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Guatemala ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal government of Malacatán ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical climate ⓘ |
| hasCountryCallingCode | +502 ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivision | department of San Marcos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| hasSovereignState | Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMunicipalityOf | San Marcos Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTownOf | San Marcos Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | San Marcos Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZoneRegion | Central America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf |
Republic of Guatemala
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Marcos Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
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| usesCurrency | Guatemalan quetzal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utcOffset | −06:00 ⓘ |
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: Malacatán Description of subject: Malacatán is a municipality and town in western Guatemala, located near the Mexican border in the department of San Marcos.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.