Koya people
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The Koya people are an indigenous Adivasi community of central and southern India, primarily inhabiting forested and hilly regions of states like Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha, with distinct cultural traditions and social practices.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koya people canonical | 3 |
| Koya tribe | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4976728 — 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: Koya people Context triple: [Koya language, spokenBy, Koya people]
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Kankuamo people
The Kankuamo people are an Indigenous group of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia, closely related culturally and linguistically to other Arhuaco-speaking communities of the region.
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B.
Sikka people
The Sikka people are an indigenous ethnic group of eastern Flores in Indonesia, known for their distinct Austronesian language, Catholic traditions, and rich weaving and oral storytelling culture.
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C.
Chimariko people
The Chimariko people are an Indigenous group native to northwestern California, historically living along the Trinity River and known for their distinct language and traditional riverine lifeways.
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D.
Hambukushu people
The Hambukushu people are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of northwestern Botswana and neighboring regions, traditionally known as riverine farmers, fishers, and hunters with a rich cultural heritage closely tied to the Okavango waterways.
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E.
Kanembu people
The Kanembu people are a Saharan ethnic group primarily inhabiting western Chad, historically linked to the Kanem-Bornu Empire and known for their role in trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship.
- 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: Koya people Target entity description: The Koya people are an indigenous Adivasi community of central and southern India, primarily inhabiting forested and hilly regions of states like Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha, with distinct cultural traditions and social practices.
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A.
Kankuamo people
The Kankuamo people are an Indigenous group of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia, closely related culturally and linguistically to other Arhuaco-speaking communities of the region.
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B.
Sikka people
The Sikka people are an indigenous ethnic group of eastern Flores in Indonesia, known for their distinct Austronesian language, Catholic traditions, and rich weaving and oral storytelling culture.
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C.
Chimariko people
The Chimariko people are an Indigenous group native to northwestern California, historically living along the Trinity River and known for their distinct language and traditional riverine lifeways.
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D.
Hambukushu people
The Hambukushu people are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of northwestern Botswana and neighboring regions, traditionally known as riverine farmers, fishers, and hunters with a rich cultural heritage closely tied to the Okavango waterways.
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E.
Kanembu people
The Kanembu people are a Saharan ethnic group primarily inhabiting western Chad, historically linked to the Kanem-Bornu Empire and known for their role in trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Adivasi community
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ethnic group ⓘ indigenous people ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| culturalPractice |
folk songs
ⓘ
ritual festivals ⓘ traditional dance ⓘ |
| economy |
collection of non-timber forest products
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small-scale agriculture ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup | Dravidian peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| facesIssue |
deforestation impacts
ⓘ
displacement due to development projects ⓘ land alienation ⓘ |
| governedBy | Panchayat Raj institutions (in many villages) ⓘ |
| inhabits |
Andhra Pradesh
NERFINISHED
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Chhattisgarh NERFINISHED ⓘ Odisha NERFINISHED ⓘ Telangana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Koya language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Dravidian languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
central India
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southern India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialCulture | bamboo and wood crafts ⓘ |
| partOf |
Adivasi populations of central India
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Adivasi populations of south India ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
Scheduled Tribe in Andhra Pradesh
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Scheduled Tribe in Chhattisgarh ⓘ Scheduled Tribe in India ⓘ Scheduled Tribe in Odisha ⓘ Scheduled Tribe in Telangana ⓘ |
| region |
forested areas
ⓘ
hilly regions ⓘ |
| relatedGroup |
Gondi people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
other Dravidian tribal groups ⓘ |
| religion |
Hinduism (syncretic practices)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
indigenous animist beliefs ⓘ |
| selfIdentification | Koya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | clan-based system ⓘ |
| subjectTo | Indian affirmative action policies for Scheduled Tribes ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | thatched houses ⓘ |
| traditionalLivelihood |
forest-based subsistence
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hunting and gathering ⓘ shifting cultivation ⓘ |
| usesScript |
Devanagari script (for Koya language, in some areas)
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Telugu script (for Koya language, in some areas) ⓘ |
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: Koya people Description of subject: The Koya people are an indigenous Adivasi community of central and southern India, primarily inhabiting forested and hilly regions of states like Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha, with distinct cultural traditions and social practices.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Koya tribe
subject surface form:
Papi Hills
this entity surface form:
Koya tribe