Maricopa people
E10603
The Maricopa people are a Native American tribe of the Yuman language family traditionally living along the lower Gila and Colorado Rivers in what is now Arizona.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maricopa people canonical | 26 |
| Cocopah people | 2 |
| Maricopa (Piipaash) peoples | 1 |
| Maricopa Indians | 1 |
| Maricopa tribes | 1 |
| Piipaash (Maricopa) people | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T29734 — 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.
Target entity: Maricopa people Context triple: [Mojave people, relatedEthnicGroup, Maricopa people]
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A.
Mojave people
The Mojave people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the lower Colorado River region, whose culture, traditions, and identity are deeply rooted in the Mojave Desert landscape.
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B.
Cahuilla people
The Cahuilla people are a Native American tribe indigenous to inland Southern California, traditionally inhabiting desert and mountain regions and known for their complex social organization, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
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C.
Chemehuevi people
The Chemehuevi people are a Southern Paiute Native American group traditionally inhabiting areas of the Mojave Desert and lower Colorado River, known for their rich oral traditions, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
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D.
Quechan people
The Quechan people are a Native American tribe traditionally living along the lower Colorado River in what is now southeastern California and southwestern Arizona, known for their rich oral traditions, agriculture, and riverine culture.
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E.
Serrano people
The Serrano people are an Indigenous group of Southern California whose traditional homeland spans the San Bernardino Mountains and surrounding desert regions, where they have long maintained distinct cultural, linguistic, and spiritual traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Maricopa people Target entity description: The Maricopa people are a Native American tribe of the Yuman language family traditionally living along the lower Gila and Colorado Rivers in what is now Arizona.
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A.
Mojave people
The Mojave people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the lower Colorado River region, whose culture, traditions, and identity are deeply rooted in the Mojave Desert landscape.
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B.
Cahuilla people
The Cahuilla people are a Native American tribe indigenous to inland Southern California, traditionally inhabiting desert and mountain regions and known for their complex social organization, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
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C.
Chemehuevi people
The Chemehuevi people are a Southern Paiute Native American group traditionally inhabiting areas of the Mojave Desert and lower Colorado River, known for their rich oral traditions, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
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D.
Quechan people
The Quechan people are a Native American tribe traditionally living along the lower Colorado River in what is now southeastern California and southwestern Arizona, known for their rich oral traditions, agriculture, and riverine culture.
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E.
Serrano people
The Serrano people are an Indigenous group of Southern California whose traditional homeland spans the San Bernardino Mountains and surrounding desert regions, where they have long maintained distinct cultural, linguistic, and spiritual traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American people
ⓘ
indigenous people of the United States ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Maricopa people
ⓘ
surface form:
Maricopa Indians
Yuman peoples ⓘ
surface form:
Piipaash people
|
| associatedWith |
Gila River Indian Community
ⓘ
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalPractice |
basketry
ⓘ
pottery ⓘ |
| culturalRegion |
southwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American Southwest
Sonoran Desert ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yuman peoples ⓘ |
| governmentType | tribal government ⓘ |
| hasAutonym | Piipaash ⓘ |
| historicalAlliance | Pima people ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | migration from lower Colorado River to Gila River region ⓘ |
| influencedBy | riverine environment of Gila and Colorado Rivers ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Yuman language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Yuman languages
|
| locatedInTimeZone |
Mountain Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Mountain Standard Time
|
| nativeLanguage | Maricopa language ⓘ |
| neighboringGroup |
Mojave people
ⓘ
Quechan people ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gila River Indian Community
ⓘ
surface form:
Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ⓘ
surface form:
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation
|
| populationRegion | central Arizona ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | federally recognized tribe ⓘ |
| region | Maricopa County, Arizona ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
traditional tribal religion ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Yuman language family ⓘ |
| traditionalArt |
coiled baskets
ⓘ
red-on-buff pottery ⓘ |
| traditionalCrops |
beans
ⓘ
corn ⓘ cotton ⓘ squash ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | thatched brush houses ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ riverine agriculture ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Lower Colorado River region
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surface form:
lower Colorado River
lower Gila River ⓘ present-day Arizona ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Maricopa people Description of subject: The Maricopa people are a Native American tribe of the Yuman language family traditionally living along the lower Gila and Colorado Rivers in what is now Arizona.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.