Eastern Shoshone Tribe
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The Eastern Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Native American nation primarily based on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, known for its rich cultural heritage and historical role in shaping relations between Indigenous peoples and the United States in the Rocky Mountain region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern Shoshone Tribe canonical | 5 |
| Eastern Shoshone Business Council | 1 |
| Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12895309 — 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: Eastern Shoshone Tribe Context triple: [Fort Bridger Treaty (1868), governsRelationshipBetween, Eastern Shoshone Tribe]
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A.
Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone
The Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Nevada, representing Western Shoshone people with several bands and reservations across the region.
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B.
Duckwater Shoshone Tribe
The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Western Shoshone Native American tribe based in central Nevada, known for maintaining traditional Shoshoni culture and language while governing its own reservation lands.
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C.
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are a federally recognized Native American tribal nation in the United States, primarily based at the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and composed of Shoshone and Bannock peoples.
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D.
Shivwits Band of Paiutes
The Shivwits Band of Paiutes is a federally recognized Native American tribe in southwestern Utah, representing one of the bands of the Southern Paiute people with its own government and reservation lands.
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E.
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation
The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation are a federally recognized Native American tribe composed of Western Shoshone and Northern Paiute peoples whose reservation spans the Nevada–Idaho border.
- 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: Eastern Shoshone Tribe Target entity description: The Eastern Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Native American nation primarily based on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, known for its rich cultural heritage and historical role in shaping relations between Indigenous peoples and the United States in the Rocky Mountain region.
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A.
Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone
The Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Nevada, representing Western Shoshone people with several bands and reservations across the region.
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B.
Duckwater Shoshone Tribe
The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Western Shoshone Native American tribe based in central Nevada, known for maintaining traditional Shoshoni culture and language while governing its own reservation lands.
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C.
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are a federally recognized Native American tribal nation in the United States, primarily based at the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and composed of Shoshone and Bannock peoples.
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D.
Shivwits Band of Paiutes
The Shivwits Band of Paiutes is a federally recognized Native American tribe in southwestern Utah, representing one of the bands of the Southern Paiute people with its own government and reservation lands.
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E.
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation
The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation are a federally recognized Native American tribe composed of Western Shoshone and Northern Paiute peoples whose reservation spans the Nevada–Idaho border.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people of the United States
ⓘ
Native American tribe ⓘ federally recognized tribe ⓘ |
| associatedWithRiver | Wind River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governs | Eastern Shoshone tribal members ⓘ |
| hasCulturalEmphasis |
horse traditions
ⓘ
respect for land and environment ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage |
Great Basin cultural traditions
ⓘ
Plains Indian traditions ⓘ |
| hasCulturalInstitution | tribal cultural programs ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractice |
oral storytelling
ⓘ
powwows ⓘ traditional dances ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCategory |
Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
ⓘ
Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
natural resource management
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasEducationInstitution | tribal education programs ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Eastern Shoshone people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | tribal government ⓘ |
| hasHealthInstitution | tribal health services ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | sovereign tribal nation ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasReligion |
Christianity (among members)
ⓘ
Native American Church (among members) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReservation | Wind River Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSovereigntyStatus | domestic dependent nation ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalLanguage | Shoshone language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTreatyHistoryWith | United States government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTribalEnrollment | enrolled Eastern Shoshone members ⓘ |
| historicalRole | mediator in relations between Indigenous peoples and the United States in the Rocky Mountain region ⓘ |
| historicalTerritory |
areas of present-day Idaho
ⓘ
areas of present-day Montana ⓘ areas of present-day Wyoming ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Wyoming ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Rocky Mountain region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Shoshone peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLocation | Wind River Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| regionOfInfluence | central Rocky Mountains ⓘ |
| reservationArea | Wind River Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesReservationWith | Northern Arapaho Tribe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateRecognizedIn | Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
gathering
ⓘ
horse culture ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
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: Eastern Shoshone Tribe Description of subject: The Eastern Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Native American nation primarily based on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, known for its rich cultural heritage and historical role in shaping relations between Indigenous peoples and the United States in the Rocky Mountain region.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation
this entity surface form:
Eastern Shoshone Business Council