Miwok
E442573
The Miwok are a Native American people indigenous to central California, traditionally inhabiting the Sierra Nevada foothills, Central Valley, and surrounding regions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miwok canonical | 31 |
| Miwuk | 1 |
| Wilton Miwok | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4476216 — 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: Miwok Context triple: [Wilton Rancheria, peopleGroup, Miwok]
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A.
Saklan Miwok
Saklan Miwok refers to a Native American group of the Miwok people historically inhabiting parts of the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
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B.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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C.
Bay Miwok
Bay Miwok refers to the Indigenous people and their now-extinct Miwokan language once spoken in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
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D.
Miwokan–Costanoan
Miwokan–Costanoan is a proposed subgrouping of Native American languages of California that links the Miwok and Ohlone (Costanoan) language families into a larger Utian family.
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E.
Plains Miwok
Plains Miwok are a Native American people of central California, traditionally inhabiting the lower Sacramento Valley and known for their distinct Miwokan language and cultural practices.
- 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: Miwok Target entity description: The Miwok are a Native American people indigenous to central California, traditionally inhabiting the Sierra Nevada foothills, Central Valley, and surrounding regions.
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A.
Saklan Miwok
Saklan Miwok refers to a Native American group of the Miwok people historically inhabiting parts of the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
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B.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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C.
Bay Miwok
Bay Miwok refers to the Indigenous people and their now-extinct Miwokan language once spoken in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
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D.
Miwokan–Costanoan
Miwokan–Costanoan is a proposed subgrouping of Native American languages of California that links the Miwok and Ohlone (Costanoan) language families into a larger Utian family.
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E.
Plains Miwok
Plains Miwok are a Native American people of central California, traditionally inhabiting the lower Sacramento Valley and known for their distinct Miwokan language and cultural practices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Miwok Description of subject: The Miwok are a Native American people indigenous to central California, traditionally inhabiting the Sierra Nevada foothills, Central Valley, and surrounding regions.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Miwok
linked to: Miwok