Eastern Shoshone
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The Eastern Shoshone are a Native American people traditionally associated with areas of present-day Wyoming and surrounding regions, known for their Plains horse culture and participation in 19th-century treaty-making with the United States.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eastern Shoshone canonical | 16 |
| Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation | 1 |
| Eastern Shoshone people | 1 |
| sovereignty of Eastern Shoshone | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5118014 — 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: Eastern Shoshone Context triple: [Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin, hasSubgroup, Eastern Shoshone]
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A.
Lemhi Shoshone
The Lemhi Shoshone are a Native American band of the Shoshone people traditionally based in the Lemhi River Valley of present-day Idaho.
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B.
Shoshoni
Shoshoni is a Native American language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan family, traditionally spoken by the Shoshone people of the western United States.
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C.
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are a federally recognized Native American tribal nation in the United States, primarily based at the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and composed of Shoshone and Bannock peoples.
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D.
Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone
The Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Nevada, representing Western Shoshone people with several bands and reservations across the region.
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E.
Duckwater Shoshone Tribe
The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Western Shoshone Native American tribe based in central Nevada, known for maintaining traditional Shoshoni culture and language while governing its own reservation lands.
- 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: Eastern Shoshone Target entity description: The Eastern Shoshone are a Native American people traditionally associated with areas of present-day Wyoming and surrounding regions, known for their Plains horse culture and participation in 19th-century treaty-making with the United States.
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A.
Lemhi Shoshone
The Lemhi Shoshone are a Native American band of the Shoshone people traditionally based in the Lemhi River Valley of present-day Idaho.
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B.
Shoshoni
Shoshoni is a Native American language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan family, traditionally spoken by the Shoshone people of the western United States.
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C.
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are a federally recognized Native American tribal nation in the United States, primarily based at the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and composed of Shoshone and Bannock peoples.
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D.
Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone
The Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Nevada, representing Western Shoshone people with several bands and reservations across the region.
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E.
Duckwater Shoshone Tribe
The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized Western Shoshone Native American tribe based in central Nevada, known for maintaining traditional Shoshoni culture and language while governing its own reservation lands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Eastern Shoshone Description of subject: The Eastern Shoshone are a Native American people traditionally associated with areas of present-day Wyoming and surrounding regions, known for their Plains horse culture and participation in 19th-century treaty-making with the United States.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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