Northern Shoshone
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The Northern Shoshone are a Native American people of the Great Basin and northern Rocky Mountain regions, traditionally known for a semi-nomadic lifestyle centered on hunting, gathering, and later horse culture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northern Shoshone canonical | 3 |
| Northern Shoshoni | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5357895 — 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: Northern Shoshone Context triple: [Shoshone, subgroup, Northern Shoshone]
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A.
Eastern Shoshone
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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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: Northern Shoshone Target entity description: The Northern Shoshone are a Native American people of the Great Basin and northern Rocky Mountain regions, traditionally known for a semi-nomadic lifestyle centered on hunting, gathering, and later horse culture.
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A.
Eastern Shoshone
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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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 (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people of the United States
ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ |
| conflictWith | United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| culturalPractice |
communal hunting
ⓘ
horse culture ⓘ seasonal migration ⓘ |
| culturalRegion |
Great Basin culture area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plateau culture area ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| federallyRecognizedTribesInclude |
Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute (Shoshone component)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Bear River Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Shoshoni language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan languages
|
| lifestyle | semi-nomadic ⓘ |
| relatedGroup |
Comanche
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Shoshone NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Shoshone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Native American Church (some members)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
traditional Shoshone spirituality ⓘ |
| reservation |
Duck Valley Indian Reservation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fort Hall Indian Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ Wind River Indian Reservation (some Northern Shoshone families) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sovereignStatus | members of federally recognized tribes in the United States ⓘ |
| subgroupOf |
Shoshone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shoshone people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
modern era ⓘ pre-contact era ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy |
bison hunting
ⓘ
deer hunting ⓘ root gathering ⓘ seed gathering ⓘ small game hunting ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
Great Basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Rocky Mountains ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| traditionalTechnology |
bow and arrow
ⓘ
hide clothing ⓘ horses ⓘ tipi dwellings ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Latin alphabet (for Shoshoni language, modern) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Northern Shoshone Description of subject: The Northern Shoshone are a Native American people of the Great Basin and northern Rocky Mountain regions, traditionally known for a semi-nomadic lifestyle centered on hunting, gathering, and later horse culture.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Northern Shoshoni