Yaqui
E133330
Indigenous people
Native American people
Uto-Aztecan language
Uto-Aztecan people
ethnic group
federally recognized tribe
series of armed conflicts
The Yaqui are an Indigenous people of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, especially northern Mexico, known for their rich ceremonial traditions, distinctive Pascola and Deer dances, and enduring resistance to colonization.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T676453 — 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: Yaqui Context triple: [Sonoran Desert, hasIndigenousPeoples, Yaqui]
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A.
Grijalva River
The Grijalva River is a major river in southeastern Mexico that flows through the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, supporting hydroelectric power generation and agriculture before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
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B.
Gila River
The Gila River is a major waterway in the southwestern United States that flows through New Mexico and Arizona before joining the Colorado River.
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C.
Guadalupe River
The Guadalupe River is a waterway in Northern California that flows through Santa Clara County and the city of San Jose before emptying into San Francisco Bay.
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D.
Papaloapan River
The Papaloapan River is a major river in southeastern Mexico that drains a large basin across Oaxaca and Veracruz before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Santa Cruz River
The Santa Cruz River is a significant river in southern Argentina that flows eastward from the Andes through the Patagonian steppe to the Atlantic Ocean.
- 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: Yaqui Target entity description: The Yaqui are an Indigenous people of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, especially northern Mexico, known for their rich ceremonial traditions, distinctive Pascola and Deer dances, and enduring resistance to colonization.
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A.
Grijalva River
The Grijalva River is a major river in southeastern Mexico that flows through the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, supporting hydroelectric power generation and agriculture before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
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B.
Gila River
The Gila River is a major waterway in the southwestern United States that flows through New Mexico and Arizona before joining the Colorado River.
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C.
Guadalupe River
The Guadalupe River is a waterway in Northern California that flows through Santa Clara County and the city of San Jose before emptying into San Francisco Bay.
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D.
Papaloapan River
The Papaloapan River is a major river in southeastern Mexico that drains a large basin across Oaxaca and Veracruz before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Santa Cruz River
The Santa Cruz River is a significant river in southern Argentina that flows eastward from the Andes through the Patagonian steppe to the Atlantic Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people
ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ Uto-Aztecan language ⓘ Uto-Aztecan people ⓘ ethnic group ⓘ federally recognized tribe ⓘ series of armed conflicts ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Hiaki
ⓘ
Yoemem ⓘ |
| artForm |
ceremonial music
ⓘ
ritual dance ⓘ woodcarving ⓘ |
| ceremony |
Easter ceremonies
ⓘ
Fiesta of San Ignacio ⓘ Lenten ceremonies ⓘ |
| colonialOpponent |
Mexican state
ⓘ
Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| country |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| culturalElement |
mask carving for Pascola dancers
ⓘ
musical traditions with harp and violin ⓘ ritual use of water and flowers ⓘ |
| governance | traditional civil-religious hierarchy ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Yaqui Wars ⓘ |
| language | Yaqui language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Cahitan branch of Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| nativeName | Yoeme ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Deer dance
ⓘ
Pascola dance ⓘ resistance to colonization ⓘ rich ceremonial traditions ⓘ |
| opponent |
Government of Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
Mexican government
|
| populationCenter |
Eight traditional Yaqui pueblos in Sonora
ⓘ
Pascua Yaqui Tribe ⓘ
surface form:
Pascua Yaqui communities in Arizona
Pueblo Yaqui, Sonora ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Arizona
ⓘ
surface form:
Arizona, United States
Sonora, Mexico ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| recognizedTribe |
Pascua Yaqui Tribe
ⓘ
surface form:
Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona
|
| region |
U.S.–Mexico border
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S.–Mexico borderlands
|
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
syncretic Catholic-Indigenous practices ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | pueblos with traditional authorities ⓘ |
| suffered |
forced relocation
ⓘ
land dispossession ⓘ mass deportations to Yucatán and Oaxaca ⓘ |
| traditionalReligion | Yaqui religion ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Yaqui Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Río Yaqui valley
Estado de Sonora ⓘ
surface form:
State of Sonora
|
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: Yaqui Description of subject: The Yaqui are an Indigenous people of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, especially northern Mexico, known for their rich ceremonial traditions, distinctive Pascola and Deer dances, and enduring resistance to colonization.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
El Yaqui
subject surface form:
Sonora
subject surface form:
Guadalupe, Arizona