Tecate urban area
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Tecate urban area is the main populated city zone of the border municipality of Tecate in Baja California, Mexico, known for its role as a regional commercial and industrial center.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tecate metropolitan area | 1 |
| Tecate urban area canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T474444 — 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: Tecate urban area Context triple: [Municipality of Tecate, hasUrbanCenter, Tecate urban area]
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A.
Tijuana
Tijuana is a large, bustling border city in northwestern Mexico known for its cultural vibrancy, manufacturing industry, and close economic and social ties with the neighboring U.S. city of San Diego.
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B.
Milpa Alta
Milpa Alta is a largely rural borough in the southern part of Mexico City, known for its traditional agriculture, especially nopal cactus cultivation, and strong preservation of indigenous customs.
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C.
Toa Baja
Toa Baja is a coastal municipality in northern Puerto Rico, known for its proximity to San Juan and its mix of urban, industrial, and residential areas.
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D.
Ensenada
Ensenada is a coastal city in northwestern Baja California, Mexico, known for its busy port, tourism, and nearby wine-producing valleys.
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E.
Colonia Federal, Tijuana
Colonia Federal is a neighborhood in Tijuana, Mexico, located directly along the U.S.–Mexico border opposite San Ysidro, California.
- 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: Tecate urban area Target entity description: Tecate urban area is the main populated city zone of the border municipality of Tecate in Baja California, Mexico, known for its role as a regional commercial and industrial center.
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A.
Tijuana
Tijuana is a large, bustling border city in northwestern Mexico known for its cultural vibrancy, manufacturing industry, and close economic and social ties with the neighboring U.S. city of San Diego.
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B.
Milpa Alta
Milpa Alta is a largely rural borough in the southern part of Mexico City, known for its traditional agriculture, especially nopal cactus cultivation, and strong preservation of indigenous customs.
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C.
Toa Baja
Toa Baja is a coastal municipality in northern Puerto Rico, known for its proximity to San Juan and its mix of urban, industrial, and residential areas.
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D.
Ensenada
Ensenada is a coastal city in northwestern Baja California, Mexico, known for its busy port, tourism, and nearby wine-producing valleys.
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E.
Colonia Federal, Tijuana
Colonia Federal is a neighborhood in Tijuana, Mexico, located directly along the U.S.–Mexico border opposite San Ysidro, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
urban area ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Sierra de Juárez
ⓘ
U.S.–Mexico border ⓘ
surface form:
US–Mexico border
|
| borderCityWith | Tecate, California ⓘ |
| borderCrossingType | road border crossing ⓘ |
| borderRegion | US–Mexico borderlands ⓘ |
| borderWith |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| commercialRole | service center for surrounding rural areas ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| currency | Mexican peso ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
commerce
ⓘ
food and beverage industry ⓘ logistics ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Municipality of Tecate
ⓘ
surface form:
Municipal government of Tecate
|
| hasCharacteristic |
border city
ⓘ
manufacturing hub ⓘ maquiladora presence ⓘ |
| hasFunction | administrative center of Tecate Municipality ⓘ |
| industrialType |
assembly plants
ⓘ
light manufacturing ⓘ |
| languageMajority | Spanish speakers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baja California
ⓘ
Northwestern Mexico ⓘ Municipality of Tecate ⓘ
surface form:
Tecate Municipality
|
| locatedInRegion |
San Diego–Tijuana
ⓘ
surface form:
Binational San Diego–Tijuana–Tecate metropolitan region
|
| locatedOn |
Baja California desert
ⓘ
surface form:
northwestern Baja California Plateau
|
| namedAfter | Tecate ⓘ |
| nearbyMajorCity |
Mexicali metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Mexicali urban area
Tijuana ⓘ
surface form:
Tijuana urban area
|
| partOf |
Municipality of Tecate
ⓘ
surface form:
Tecate Municipality
|
| primaryLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| region |
Baja California border corridor
ⓘ
surface form:
Baja California border region
|
| roadConnection |
Federal Highway 2
ⓘ
Federal Highway 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
regional commercial center
ⓘ
regional industrial center ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | city zone ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Daylight Time
|
| transportRole | border crossing corridor ⓘ |
| urbanCoreOf |
Municipality of Tecate
ⓘ
surface form:
Tecate Municipality
|
| urbanizationType | continuous built-up area ⓘ |
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: Tecate urban area Description of subject: Tecate urban area is the main populated city zone of the border municipality of Tecate in Baja California, Mexico, known for its role as a regional commercial and industrial center.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tecate metropolitan area