Mexicali
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Mexicali is the capital and one of the largest cities of the Mexican state of Baja California, known for its border location adjacent to Calexico, California, and its significant industrial and agricultural economy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mexicali canonical | 48 |
| Mexicali, Baja California | 8 |
| Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico | 2 |
| Mexicali, Mexico | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T519726 — 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: Mexicali Context triple: [Baja California, hasMajorCity, Mexicali]
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A.
Coahuila
Coahuila is a large, mostly arid state in northeastern Mexico known for its desert landscapes, mountain ranges, and significant industrial and mining activities.
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B.
Baja California
Baja California is a long, narrow peninsula in northwestern Mexico known for its deserts, rugged coastline, and popular tourist destinations such as Tijuana and Ensenada.
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C.
Nayarit
Nayarit is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its beaches, coastal resorts, and diverse mountainous and tropical landscapes.
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D.
Sonora
Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
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E.
Sonora
Sonora is a small historic city in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills known for its Gold Rush heritage and role as a regional hub for tourism and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Mexicali Target entity description: Mexicali is the capital and one of the largest cities of the Mexican state of Baja California, known for its border location adjacent to Calexico, California, and its significant industrial and agricultural economy.
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A.
Coahuila
Coahuila is a large, mostly arid state in northeastern Mexico known for its desert landscapes, mountain ranges, and significant industrial and mining activities.
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B.
Baja California
Baja California is a long, narrow peninsula in northwestern Mexico known for its deserts, rugged coastline, and popular tourist destinations such as Tijuana and Ensenada.
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C.
Nayarit
Nayarit is a small Pacific-coast state in western Mexico known for its beaches, coastal resorts, and diverse mountainous and tropical landscapes.
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D.
Sonora
Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
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E.
Sonora
Sonora is a small historic city in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills known for its Gold Rush heritage and role as a regional hub for tourism and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mexicali Description of subject: Mexicali is the capital and one of the largest cities of the Mexican state of Baja California, known for its border location adjacent to Calexico, California, and its significant industrial and agricultural economy.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Baja California
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Baja California
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Baja California
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Baja California
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Baja California
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Baja California
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Baja California
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Baja California
this entity surface form:
Mexicali, Mexico