Shoshone people
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The Shoshone people are a Native American group of the Great Basin and surrounding regions, traditionally semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers with distinct Northern, Western, and Eastern bands and a rich cultural and linguistic heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shoshone people canonical | 8 |
| Timbisha Shoshone people | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5490559 — 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: Shoshone people Context triple: [Salt Lake Valley, historicallyInhabitedBy, Shoshone people]
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A.
Northern Shoshone
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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B.
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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C.
Western Shoshone
The Western Shoshone are a Native American people traditionally inhabiting areas of present-day Nevada, Idaho, and surrounding regions, known for their distinct culture, language, and history in the Great Basin.
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D.
Cheyenne people
The Cheyenne people are a Native American nation of the Great Plains known for their warrior culture, alliance with the Arapaho and Lakota, and significant role in 19th-century U.S. frontier history.
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E.
Cayuse people
The Cayuse people are a Native American tribe from the Columbia Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest, historically known for their horse culture, trade networks, and early resistance to U.S. expansion.
- 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: Shoshone people Target entity description: The Shoshone people are a Native American group of the Great Basin and surrounding regions, traditionally semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers with distinct Northern, Western, and Eastern bands and a rich cultural and linguistic heritage.
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A.
Northern Shoshone
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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B.
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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C.
Western Shoshone
The Western Shoshone are a Native American people traditionally inhabiting areas of present-day Nevada, Idaho, and surrounding regions, known for their distinct culture, language, and history in the Great Basin.
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D.
Cheyenne people
The Cheyenne people are a Native American nation of the Great Plains known for their warrior culture, alliance with the Arapaho and Lakota, and significant role in 19th-century U.S. frontier history.
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E.
Cayuse people
The Cayuse people are a Native American tribe from the Columbia Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest, historically known for their horse culture, trade networks, and early resistance to U.S. expansion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people of the United States
ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ |
| acquiredHorses | 18th century ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| culturalArea |
Great Basin culture area
NERFINISHED
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Plains culture area (Eastern Shoshone) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| federallyRecognizedTribe |
Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duckwater Shoshone Tribe NERFINISHED ⓘ Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ Ely Shoshone Tribe NERFINISHED ⓘ Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ Yomba Shoshone Tribe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Eastern Shoshone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Shoshone NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Shoshone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Lewis and Clark Expedition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Shoshone language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan languages
|
| modernEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
gaming enterprises ⓘ ranching ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| notableLeader |
Bear Hunter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chief Washakie NERFINISHED ⓘ Pocatello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember | Sacagawea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationTrend | decline after European contact due to disease and conflict ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Great Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Bannock people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Comanche people NERFINISHED ⓘ Goshute people NERFINISHED ⓘ Paiute people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
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Native American Church NERFINISHED ⓘ traditional Shoshone religion ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | guided Lewis and Clark Expedition through Sacagawea ⓘ |
| sovereignStatus | tribal sovereignty recognized by United States government ⓘ |
| traditionalClothingMaterial |
animal hides
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buckskin ⓘ |
| traditionalCraft |
basketry
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beadwork ⓘ hide tanning ⓘ horse gear making ⓘ |
| traditionalDwelling |
tipi
ⓘ
wickiup ⓘ |
| traditionalLifestyle | semi-nomadic ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
bison hunting
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deer hunting ⓘ fishing ⓘ hunter-gatherer ⓘ root gathering ⓘ seed gathering ⓘ small game hunting ⓘ |
| traditionalTransport | horse ⓘ |
| treaty |
Treaty of Fort Bridger (1863)
NERFINISHED
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Treaty of Fort Bridger (1868) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Shoshone people Description of subject: The Shoshone people are a Native American group of the Great Basin and surrounding regions, traditionally semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers with distinct Northern, Western, and Eastern bands and a rich cultural and linguistic heritage.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Timbisha Shoshone people