Zócalo main square
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The Zócalo main square is the vast historic central plaza of Mexico City, surrounded by important civic and religious buildings and serving as a focal point for public gatherings and national events.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Plaza de la Constitución (Zócalo) | 2 |
| Zócalo area | 1 |
| Zócalo main square canonical | 1 |
| central plaza (Zócalo) | 1 |
| zocalo (main square) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9137851 — 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: Zócalo main square Context triple: [South Bell Tower of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City, visibleFrom, Zócalo main square]
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Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is the historic main square of Old Havana, Cuba, known for its colonial architecture, leafy central park, and role as a cultural and political hub since the 16th century.
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B.
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is a historic central square in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as a traditional gathering place surrounded by colonial-era architecture, shops, and government buildings.
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C.
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is the main historic square of Morelia, Mexico, known for its colonial architecture, central gardens, and role as a social and cultural gathering place in the city.
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D.
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is the historic main square and civic heart of Santiago, Chile, surrounded by important colonial-era buildings, churches, and public institutions.
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E.
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is the historic main square of Guadalajara, Mexico, known for its ornate bandstand, surrounding colonial architecture, and role as a central gathering place in the city.
- 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: Zócalo main square Target entity description: The Zócalo main square is the vast historic central plaza of Mexico City, surrounded by important civic and religious buildings and serving as a focal point for public gatherings and national events.
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A.
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is the historic main square of Old Havana, Cuba, known for its colonial architecture, leafy central park, and role as a cultural and political hub since the 16th century.
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B.
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is a historic central square in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as a traditional gathering place surrounded by colonial-era architecture, shops, and government buildings.
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C.
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is the main historic square of Morelia, Mexico, known for its colonial architecture, central gardens, and role as a social and cultural gathering place in the city.
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D.
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is the historic main square of La Paz, Bolivia, later renamed Plaza Murillo and known as the political and administrative heart of the city.
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E.
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is the historic main square and civic heart of Santiago, Chile, surrounded by important colonial-era buildings, churches, and public institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic site
ⓘ
public square ⓘ |
| colloquialName | Zócalo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 19.4326°N 99.1332°W ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| flagLoweredBy | Mexican Armed Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flagRaisedBy | Mexican Armed Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerName |
Plaza Mayor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plaza de la Constitución NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | Government of Mexico City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCentralFeature | large Mexican flag ⓘ |
| hasTransportationConnection | Zócalo/Tenochtitlan metro station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUse |
civic ceremonies
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concerts ⓘ cultural events ⓘ festivals ⓘ national celebrations ⓘ political demonstrations ⓘ public gatherings ⓘ religious events ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| hostsEvent |
Grito de Dolores ceremony
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Independence Day celebrations ⓘ cultural exhibitions ⓘ political rallies ⓘ presidential addresses ⓘ public concerts ⓘ religious processions ⓘ |
| inception | 16th century ⓘ |
| languageOfPlaceName | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Mexico City ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Mexico City ⓘ |
| locatedInDistrict | Cuauhtémoc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricRegion | Valley of Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Mexico City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
UTC−05:00
ⓘ
UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Templo Mayor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | site of former Aztec ceremonial center ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Constitution of Cádiz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialName | Plaza de la Constitución NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Historic Center of Mexico City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pavingMaterial | stone ⓘ |
| shape | rectangular ⓘ |
| surfaceArea | approximately 46,800 square meters ⓘ |
| surroundedBy |
Federal District buildings
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Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ National Palace NERFINISHED ⓘ commercial buildings ⓘ historic streets ⓘ |
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: Zócalo main square Description of subject: The Zócalo main square is the vast historic central plaza of Mexico City, surrounded by important civic and religious buildings and serving as a focal point for public gatherings and national events.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
South Bell Tower of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City
this entity surface form:
Plaza de la Constitución (Zócalo)
this entity surface form:
Plaza de la Constitución (Zócalo)
this entity surface form:
central plaza (Zócalo)
this entity surface form:
Zócalo area
this entity surface form:
zocalo (main square)