Cholulteca
E871159
The Cholulteca were the indigenous people associated with the ancient city of Cholula in central Mexico, known for their role in Mesoamerican trade, religion, and monumental pyramid construction.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cholulteca canonical | 1 |
| city of Cholula | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10317945 — 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: Cholulteca Context triple: [archaeological zone of Cholula, culture, Cholulteca]
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A.
Culhuacán
Culhuacán is a Mexico City Metro station on Line 12 serving the Culhuacán neighborhood in the eastern part of the city.
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B.
Teuchitlán
Teuchitlán is a town in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, best known for its nearby pre-Hispanic circular pyramid complex known as the Guachimontones archaeological site.
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C.
Coixtlahuaca
Coixtlahuaca was an important pre-Columbian city in present-day Oaxaca, Mexico, serving as a key political and cultural hub in the Mixtec region.
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D.
Atlcahualo
Atlcahualo was an important Aztec religious festival held in honor of the rain god Tlaloc, marked by rituals and offerings to ensure agricultural fertility.
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E.
Tláhuac
Tláhuac is a largely semi-rural borough in the southeastern part of Mexico City, known for its chinampas (traditional canal-based agriculture) and rapid urbanization.
- 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: Cholulteca Target entity description: The Cholulteca were the indigenous people associated with the ancient city of Cholula in central Mexico, known for their role in Mesoamerican trade, religion, and monumental pyramid construction.
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A.
Culhuacán
Culhuacán is a Mexico City Metro station on Line 12 serving the Culhuacán neighborhood in the eastern part of the city.
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B.
Teuchitlán
Teuchitlán is a town in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, best known for its nearby pre-Hispanic circular pyramid complex known as the Guachimontones archaeological site.
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C.
Coixtlahuaca
Coixtlahuaca was an important pre-Columbian city in present-day Oaxaca, Mexico, serving as a key political and cultural hub in the Mixtec region.
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D.
Atlcahualo
Atlcahualo was an important Aztec religious festival held in honor of the rain god Tlaloc, marked by rituals and offerings to ensure agricultural fertility.
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E.
Tláhuac
Tláhuac is a largely semi-rural borough in the southeastern part of Mexico City, known for its chinampas (traditional canal-based agriculture) and rapid urbanization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican people
ⓘ
indigenous people ⓘ |
| agriculturalProducts |
beans
ⓘ
chili peppers ⓘ maize ⓘ squash ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
platform mounds
ⓘ
stepped pyramids ⓘ |
| associatedWith | ancient city of Cholula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centeredOn | Great Pyramid of Cholula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conqueredBy | Spanish Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conqueredDuring | Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalInfluenceFrom |
Aztec
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Olmec NERFINISHED ⓘ Teotihuacan NERFINISHED ⓘ Toltec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
craft production ⓘ regional trade ⓘ |
| engagedIn |
cacao trade
ⓘ
ceramic trade ⓘ feather trade ⓘ obsidian trade ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf | Cholula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadPilgrimageCenterAt | Cholula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| interactedWith |
Aztec Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tlaxcalans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Great Pyramid of Cholula
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
long-distance trade ⓘ monumental pyramid construction ⓘ religious activities ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Oto-Manguean languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Puebla Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
central Mexico ⓘ |
| majorDeityVenerated |
Quetzalcoatl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tlaloc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalOrganization | city-state ⓘ |
| religion | Mesoamerican polytheism ⓘ |
| ritualPractice |
bloodletting
ⓘ
human sacrifice ⓘ offerings to deities ⓘ |
| sufferedEvent | Cholula massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Classic period of Mesoamerica
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| urbanCenter | Cholula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedCalendarSystem | Mesoamerican calendar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedWritingSystem | Mesoamerican pictographic writing ⓘ |
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: Cholulteca Description of subject: The Cholulteca were the indigenous people associated with the ancient city of Cholula in central Mexico, known for their role in Mesoamerican trade, religion, and monumental pyramid construction.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
city of Cholula