Modoc people
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The Modoc people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the regions of northern California and southern Oregon, known for their rich cultural traditions and historical resistance during the Modoc War of the 1870s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modoc people canonical | 12 |
| Modoc tribe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T748917 — 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: Modoc people Context triple: [Mount Shasta, isSacredTo, Modoc 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.
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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C.
Miwok people
The Miwok people are a group of Native American tribes indigenous to central California, traditionally inhabiting the Sierra Nevada foothills, Central Valley, and surrounding regions.
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D.
Cocopah people
The Cocopah people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the lower Colorado River region of what is now Arizona, California, and northern Mexico, known for their riverine agriculture, rich cultural traditions, and enduring cross-border community.
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E.
Wintu people
The Wintu people are an Indigenous group of Northern California whose traditional homeland centers around the upper Sacramento River region.
- 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: Modoc people Target entity description: The Modoc people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the regions of northern California and southern Oregon, known for their rich cultural traditions and historical resistance during the Modoc War of the 1870s.
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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.
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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C.
Miwok people
The Miwok people are a group of Native American tribes indigenous to central California, traditionally inhabiting the Sierra Nevada foothills, Central Valley, and surrounding regions.
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D.
Cocopah people
The Cocopah people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the lower Colorado River region of what is now Arizona, California, and northern Mexico, known for their riverine agriculture, rich cultural traditions, and enduring cross-border community.
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E.
Wintu people
The Wintu people are an Indigenous group of Northern California whose traditional homeland centers around the upper Sacramento River region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Modoc people Description of subject: The Modoc people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the regions of northern California and southern Oregon, known for their rich cultural traditions and historical resistance during the Modoc War of the 1870s.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lava Beds National Monument
this entity surface form:
Modoc tribe