San
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The San are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Southern Africa, known for their ancient rock art, click-based languages, and deep ecological knowledge of the Kalahari region.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3369055 — 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: San Context triple: [Central Kalahari Game Reserve, hasIndigenousPeople, San]
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San Jo
San Jo is an informal nickname commonly used to refer to the city of San Jose, California.
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Kay
Kay is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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Madera
Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
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D.
Van
Van is a historic city in eastern Anatolia, known as a major cultural and political center of ancient and medieval Armenian civilization on the shores of Lake Van.
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E.
Salinas
Salinas is a prominent agricultural city in Northern California, often called the "Salad Bowl of the World" and known as the birthplace of author John Steinbeck.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: San Target entity description: The San are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Southern Africa, known for their ancient rock art, click-based languages, and deep ecological knowledge of the Kalahari region.
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A.
San Jo
San Jo is an informal nickname commonly used to refer to the city of San Jose, California.
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B.
Kay
Kay is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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C.
Madera
Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
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D.
Van
Van is a historic city in eastern Anatolia, known as a major cultural and political center of ancient and medieval Armenian civilization on the shores of Lake Van.
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E.
Salinas
Salinas is a prominent agricultural city in Northern California, often called the "Salad Bowl of the World" and known as the birthplace of author John Steinbeck.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ethnic group
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hunter-gatherer society ⓘ indigenous people ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Basarwa
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Bushmen ⓘ Sho ⓘ |
| artForm |
body adornment
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rock engravings ⓘ rock paintings ⓘ |
| country |
Angola
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Botswana ⓘ Namibia ⓘ South Africa ⓘ Zimbabwe ⓘ |
| facingIssue |
cultural assimilation pressures
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land dispossession ⓘ loss of traditional lands ⓘ marginalization ⓘ |
| geneticSignificance | high genetic diversity ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractice |
rock engraving
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rock painting ⓘ storytelling ⓘ trance dance ⓘ |
| knowledgeDomain |
medicinal plants
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tracking of animals ⓘ water sources in arid environments ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Khoe-Kwadi languages
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Kxʼa languages ⓘ Tuu languages ⓘ |
| legalRecognition |
indigenous people in Botswana
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indigenous people in Namibia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Kalahari survival skills
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click consonant languages ⓘ ecological knowledge ⓘ hunter-gatherer lifestyle ⓘ rock art ⓘ tracking skills ⓘ |
| populationTrend | declining ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | one of the oldest continuous populations of modern humans ⓘ |
| region |
Kalahari Desert
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Southern Africa ⓘ |
| religion |
animism
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shamanism ⓘ |
| socialStructure |
egalitarian society
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small mobile bands ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | temporary shelters ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
foraging
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gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory | Kalahari Basin ⓘ |
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: San Description of subject: The San are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Southern Africa, known for their ancient rock art, click-based languages, and deep ecological knowledge of the Kalahari region.
Referenced by (4)
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