Tlingit people
E390848
The Tlingit people are an Indigenous group of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, known for their complex clan system, rich oral traditions, and highly developed art forms such as totem pole carving.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tlingit people canonical | 29 |
| Tlingit culture | 2 |
| Chilkoot Tlingit | 1 |
| Kiks.ádi Tlingit | 1 |
| Kiks.ádi clan of the Tlingit | 1 |
| Tlingit peoples | 1 |
| Tlingit traditional territory | 1 |
| Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Alaska Natives | 1 |
| Áak’w Kwáan (a Tlingit group) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3680322 — 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: Tlingit people Context triple: [Sitka National Historical Park, associatedWithPeople, Tlingit people]
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A.
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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B.
Dena’ina people
The Dena’ina people are an Alaska Native Athabaskan group traditionally inhabiting the Cook Inlet and surrounding regions, known for their rich fishing culture and one of the few Athabaskan languages with a maritime orientation.
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C.
Tongass people
The Tongass people are an Indigenous Tlingit group from the coastal and island regions of southeastern Alaska, historically known for their maritime culture and complex clan-based social structure.
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D.
Quileute people
The Quileute people are a Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest known for their rich coastal culture, fishing and whaling traditions, and a language isolate once spoken along the western coast of Washington State.
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E.
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.
- 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: Tlingit people Target entity description: The Tlingit people are an Indigenous group of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, known for their complex clan system, rich oral traditions, and highly developed art forms such as totem pole carving.
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A.
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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B.
Dena’ina people
The Dena’ina people are an Alaska Native Athabaskan group traditionally inhabiting the Cook Inlet and surrounding regions, known for their rich fishing culture and one of the few Athabaskan languages with a maritime orientation.
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C.
Tongass people
The Tongass people are an Indigenous Tlingit group from the coastal and island regions of southeastern Alaska, historically known for their maritime culture and complex clan-based social structure.
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D.
Quileute people
The Quileute people are a Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest known for their rich coastal culture, fishing and whaling traditions, and a language isolate once spoken along the western coast of Washington State.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Nations people
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Indigenous people ⓘ Native American people ⓘ |
| areKnownFor |
complex clan system
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complex social organization ⓘ elaborate ceremonial art ⓘ matrilineal kinship system ⓘ potlatch ceremonies ⓘ rich oral traditions ⓘ totem pole carving ⓘ |
| artForm |
bentwood boxes
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button blankets ⓘ chilkat weaving ⓘ totem poles ⓘ wood carving ⓘ |
| artStyle |
Haida art
ⓘ
surface form:
Northwest Coast formline design
|
| clanSystem | clans inherited from the mother ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalRegion |
Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Northwest Coast cultural area
|
| ethnicGroupOf |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Northwest Coast
|
| governingBody | Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska ⓘ |
| kinshipSystem | matrilineal descent ⓘ |
| language |
Tlingit
ⓘ
surface form:
Tlingit language
|
| languageFamily |
Na-Dene
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surface form:
Na-Dene language family
|
| moiety |
Eagle moiety
ⓘ
Raven moiety ⓘ Wolf moiety ⓘ |
| neighboringPeople |
Athabascan peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Athabaskan peoples
Haida ⓘ
surface form:
Haida people
Tsimshian ⓘ
surface form:
Tsimshian people
|
| oralTradition |
historical narratives
ⓘ
legends ⓘ myths ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Northwestern British Columbia
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Southeastern Alaska ⓘ
surface form:
Southeast Alaska
Yukon Territory ⓘ |
| socialStructure | divided into moieties ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy |
fishing
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gathering ⓘ hunting ⓘ salmon harvesting ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | plank houses ⓘ |
| traditionalReligion |
animism
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shamanism ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Alexander Archipelago
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Coastal fjords of Southeast Alaska ⓘ |
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: Tlingit people Description of subject: The Tlingit people are an Indigenous group of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, known for their complex clan system, rich oral traditions, and highly developed art forms such as totem pole carving.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Áak’w Kwáan (a Tlingit group)
this entity surface form:
Tlingit traditional territory
subject surface form:
Russian America
this entity surface form:
Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Alaska Natives
this entity surface form:
Tlingit culture
this entity surface form:
Chilkoot Tlingit
this entity surface form:
Tlingit peoples
this entity surface form:
Kiks.ádi clan of the Tlingit
this entity surface form:
Kiks.ádi Tlingit
this entity surface form:
Tlingit culture
subject surface form:
Southern Alaska