Mixtec
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The Mixtec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people of southern Mexico known for their rich pre-Columbian civilization, intricate codices, and enduring cultural traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mixtec canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6542134 — 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: Mixtec Context triple: [Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I, culture, Mixtec]
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A.
Tlapanec
Tlapanec are an indigenous people of southern Mexico, known for their distinct Oto-Manguean language and traditional communities in the mountainous region of Guerrero.
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B.
Chontal of Oaxaca
The Chontal of Oaxaca are an indigenous people of southern Mexico known for their distinct language, traditional agriculture, and rich cultural practices rooted in the region’s mountainous and coastal areas.
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C.
Popoloca
Popoloca is an indigenous language of central Mexico belonging to the Oto-Manguean family and spoken by the Popoloca people of Puebla.
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D.
Mezquital Otomi
Mezquital Otomi is a variety of the Otomi language spoken primarily in the Mezquital Valley region of central Mexico.
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E.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
- 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: Mixtec Target entity description: The Mixtec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people of southern Mexico known for their rich pre-Columbian civilization, intricate codices, and enduring cultural traditions.
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A.
Tlapanec
Tlapanec are an indigenous people of southern Mexico, known for their distinct Oto-Manguean language and traditional communities in the mountainous region of Guerrero.
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B.
Chontal of Oaxaca
The Chontal of Oaxaca are an indigenous people of southern Mexico known for their distinct language, traditional agriculture, and rich cultural practices rooted in the region’s mountainous and coastal areas.
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C.
Popoloca
Popoloca is an indigenous language of central Mexico belonging to the Oto-Manguean family and spoken by the Popoloca people of Puebla.
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D.
Mezquital Otomi
Mezquital Otomi is a variety of the Otomi language spoken primarily in the Mezquital Valley region of central Mexico.
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E.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican people
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indigenous people ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| hasArtStyle | Mixtec style NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalArtifact |
Codex Becker I
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Codex Bodley NERFINISHED ⓘ Codex Colombino NERFINISHED ⓘ Codex Nuttall NERFINISHED ⓘ Codex Selden NERFINISHED ⓘ Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I NERFINISHED ⓘ Mixtec codices NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRegion |
La Mixteca
NERFINISHED
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Mixteca Alta NERFINISHED ⓘ Mixteca Baja NERFINISHED ⓘ Mixteca de la Costa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Mixtec languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableCity |
Tilantongo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tututepec NERFINISHED ⓘ Yucuñudahui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableRuler | Eight Deer Jaguar Claw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalAgriculture |
beans cultivation
ⓘ
maize cultivation ⓘ squash cultivation ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalCraft |
basketry
ⓘ
metalwork ⓘ pottery ⓘ weaving ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalDress | embroidered garments ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalMusic |
drum music
ⓘ
wind instruments ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Mixtec writing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
elaborate jewelry
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enduring cultural traditions ⓘ goldsmithing ⓘ intricate pictographic codices ⓘ polychrome ceramics ⓘ pre-Columbian civilization ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Oto-Manguean languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Guerrero
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oaxaca NERFINISHED ⓘ Puebla NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Mesoamerican religion
ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| speaks | Tu’un Savi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesCalendar |
260-day ritual calendar
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365-day solar calendar ⓘ |
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: Mixtec Description of subject: The Mixtec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people of southern Mexico known for their rich pre-Columbian civilization, intricate codices, and enduring cultural traditions.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.