Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw
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Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw is the Squamish Nation, an Indigenous Coast Salish people of the Pacific Northwest with deep cultural, spiritual, and territorial ties to their ancestral lands in what is now southwestern British Columbia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw canonical | 2 |
| Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4925312 — 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: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw Context triple: [Nch’ḵay̓, culturalSignificanceFor, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw]
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Dxʷdəwʔabš
Dxʷdəwʔabš is the endonym of the Duwamish people, a Coast Salish Native American tribe indigenous to the Seattle, Washington area.
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B.
Si’ahl
Si’ahl, also known as Chief Seattle, was a prominent 19th-century Duwamish and Suquamish leader in the Pacific Northwest whose name is the origin of the city of Seattle.
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Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc is a Secwépemc (Shuswap) First Nation whose traditional territory includes the area around present-day Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada.
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Downriver Hul’q’umi’num’
Downriver Hul’q’umi’num’ is a regional dialect of the Hul’q’umi’num’ Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by Indigenous communities living along the lower reaches of the Fraser River in British Columbia.
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E.
Nch’ḵay̓
Nch’ḵay̓ is a prominent stratovolcano in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, revered in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) culture and known in English as Mount Garibaldi.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw Target entity description: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw is the Squamish Nation, an Indigenous Coast Salish people of the Pacific Northwest with deep cultural, spiritual, and territorial ties to their ancestral lands in what is now southwestern British Columbia.
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A.
Dxʷdəwʔabš
Dxʷdəwʔabš is the endonym of the Duwamish people, a Coast Salish Native American tribe indigenous to the Seattle, Washington area.
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B.
Si’ahl
Si’ahl, also known as Chief Seattle, was a prominent 19th-century Duwamish and Suquamish leader in the Pacific Northwest whose name is the origin of the city of Seattle.
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C.
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc is a Secwépemc (Shuswap) First Nation whose traditional territory includes the area around present-day Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada.
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D.
Downriver Hul’q’umi’num’
Downriver Hul’q’umi’num’ is a regional dialect of the Hul’q’umi’num’ Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by Indigenous communities living along the lower reaches of the Fraser River in British Columbia.
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E.
Nch’ḵay̓
Nch’ḵay̓ is a prominent stratovolcano in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, revered in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) culture and known in English as Mount Garibaldi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Coast Salish people
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First Nation government ⓘ Indigenous nation ⓘ |
| assertsRightsOver | land, waters, and resources in their traditional territory ⓘ |
| governs | Squamish Indian Band reserves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCouncil | Squamish Nation Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAffiliation | Coast Salish culture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalInstitution | Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre (joint with Lil’wat Nation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractice |
canoe carving
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longhouse ceremonies ⓘ potlatch traditions ⓘ weaving ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSymbol |
canoe
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salmon ⓘ thunderbird ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
cultural enterprises
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fisheries ⓘ forestry ⓘ real estate development ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasEducationInstitution | Squamish Nation Training and Trades Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | Squamish Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | Indian Act band government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeadOfGovernmentTitle | Khelsilem (Council Chairperson, as of 2020s) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeadquarters | North Vancouver, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPeopleName |
Squamish people
NERFINISHED
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Sḵwx̱wú7mesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationApprox | over 4,000 registered members ⓘ |
| hasSpiritualConnectionTo | ancestral lands in southwestern British Columbia ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalTerritory |
Burrard Inlet
NERFINISHED
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English Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Fraser River lowlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Howe Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ North Shore of Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ Squamish River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunshine Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUrbanPresenceIn |
City of Vancouver
NERFINISHED
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District of North Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ District of West Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Salishan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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Southwestern British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatesIn | treaty and rights negotiations in British Columbia ⓘ |
| partOf |
Coast Salish cultural area
NERFINISHED
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Pacific Northwest Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
Government of Canada
NERFINISHED
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Province of British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Central Coast Salish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw Description of subject: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw is the Squamish Nation, an Indigenous Coast Salish people of the Pacific Northwest with deep cultural, spiritual, and territorial ties to their ancestral lands in what is now southwestern British Columbia.
Referenced by (3)
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