Yup’ik people
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The Yup’ik people are an Indigenous group of Alaska Native Inuit known for their rich subsistence traditions, complex ceremonial life, and enduring communities along the western and southwestern coasts of Alaska.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yupik people | 11 |
| Yup'ik people | 8 |
| Yupik peoples | 5 |
| Yup’ik people canonical | 4 |
| Yupʼik people | 3 |
| Chevak Yup’ik people | 1 |
| Yupik culture | 1 |
| Yupik peoples of western Alaska | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3586429 — 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: Yup’ik people Context triple: [Bristol Bay, hasIndigenousGroup, Yup’ik people]
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A.
Naukan Yupik
Naukan Yupik are an Indigenous Siberian Yupik people of the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia, with a traditional coastal hunting culture and a language closely related to that of the Alutiiq.
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B.
Sugpiaq people
The Sugpiaq people, also known as the Alutiiq, are an Indigenous group of Alaska Native peoples traditionally inhabiting the coastal regions of south-central Alaska, particularly Kodiak Island and the surrounding Gulf of Alaska.
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C.
Alaska Natives
Alaska Natives are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska, comprising diverse cultural groups such as the Inupiat, Yup’ik, Aleut, and numerous Alaska Native tribes and communities with distinct languages, traditions, and histories.
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D.
Chukchi people
The Chukchi people are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Russian Far East, traditionally semi-nomadic reindeer herders and coastal hunters living in the Chukotka Peninsula region.
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E.
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Central Alaskan Yup’ik is an Indigenous Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by the Yup’ik people of western and southwestern Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Yup’ik people Target entity description: The Yup’ik people are an Indigenous group of Alaska Native Inuit known for their rich subsistence traditions, complex ceremonial life, and enduring communities along the western and southwestern coasts of Alaska.
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A.
Naukan Yupik
Naukan Yupik are an Indigenous Siberian Yupik people of the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia, with a traditional coastal hunting culture and a language closely related to that of the Alutiiq.
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B.
Sugpiaq people
The Sugpiaq people, also known as the Alutiiq, are an Indigenous group of Alaska Native peoples traditionally inhabiting the coastal regions of south-central Alaska, particularly Kodiak Island and the surrounding Gulf of Alaska.
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C.
Alaska Natives
Alaska Natives are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska, comprising diverse cultural groups such as the Inupiat, Yup’ik, Aleut, and numerous Alaska Native tribes and communities with distinct languages, traditions, and histories.
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D.
Chukchi people
The Chukchi people are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Russian Far East, traditionally semi-nomadic reindeer herders and coastal hunters living in the Chukotka Peninsula region.
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E.
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Central Alaskan Yup’ik is an Indigenous Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by the Yup’ik people of western and southwestern Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alaska Native people
ⓘ
Indigenous people ⓘ Inuit people ⓘ ethnic group ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
ⓘ
Yupik ⓘ |
| artForm |
basketry
ⓘ
dance ⓘ drum making ⓘ ivory carving ⓘ mask making ⓘ |
| ceremonialPractice |
Bladder Festival
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Messenger Feast (Kivgiq) ⓘ potlatch-like gift exchanges ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| culturalArea |
Arctic region
ⓘ
surface form:
Arctic
Subarctic ⓘ |
| culturalRevitalization |
language immersion programs
ⓘ
traditional dance festivals ⓘ |
| education | bilingual education programs in Yup’ik and English ⓘ |
| ethnonym |
Yupik
ⓘ
surface form:
Yup’ik
|
| governedBy | tribal councils ⓘ |
| language |
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
|
| languageFamily | Eskimo–Aleut languages ⓘ |
| legalStatus | federally recognized tribes in the United States ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | “real people” ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Yupiget
ⓘ
surface form:
Yup’it
|
| notableCommunity |
Bethel, Alaska
ⓘ
Hooper Bay, Alaska ⓘ Toksook Bay, Alaska ⓘ |
| populationRegion |
Communities on the Alaska Peninsula
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surface form:
Bristol Bay communities
Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta communities ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
southwestern Alaska
ⓘ
western Alaska ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Cupʼik people
ⓘ
surface form:
Cup’ik people
Inuit ⓘ
surface form:
Inupiat
Central Siberian Yupik ⓘ
surface form:
Siberian Yupik
|
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
traditional Yup’ik spirituality ⓘ |
| socialOrganization |
bilateral kinship
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seasonal communal living ⓘ |
| subsistencePractice |
fishing
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gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ marine mammal hunting ⓘ |
| traditionalFood |
caribou
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salmon ⓘ seal ⓘ walrus ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing |
ena (women’s house)
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qasgiq (men’s communal house) ⓘ semi-subterranean sod houses ⓘ |
| traditionalMusic | drum dance songs ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Bering Sea coastal plain
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surface form:
Bering Sea coast of Alaska
Bristol Bay ⓘ
surface form:
Bristol Bay region
Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta ⓘ |
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: Yup’ik people Description of subject: The Yup’ik people are an Indigenous group of Alaska Native Inuit known for their rich subsistence traditions, complex ceremonial life, and enduring communities along the western and southwestern coasts of Alaska.
Referenced by (34)
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