Mohave
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The Mohave are a Native American people traditionally living along the lower Colorado River in what is now Arizona, California, and Nevada, known for their riverine agriculture, distinctive tattoos, and rich oral traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mohave canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T347942 — 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: Mohave Context triple: [Colorado River Indian Tribes, hasEthnicGroup, Mohave]
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A.
Sonora
Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
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B.
Sonora
Sonora is a small historic city in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills known for its Gold Rush heritage and role as a regional hub for tourism and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert is a vast arid region in the southwestern United States known for its extreme temperatures, unique desert ecosystems, and iconic landscapes such as Death Valley and Joshua Tree.
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D.
Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
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E.
Amargosa Range
The Amargosa Range is a mountain range in eastern California and Nevada that forms the eastern boundary of Death Valley and is known for its rugged desert peaks and colorful badlands.
- 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: Mohave Target entity description: The Mohave are a Native American people traditionally living along the lower Colorado River in what is now Arizona, California, and Nevada, known for their riverine agriculture, distinctive tattoos, and rich oral traditions.
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A.
Sonora
Sonora is a small historic city in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills known for its Gold Rush heritage and role as a regional hub for tourism and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Sonora
Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
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C.
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert is a vast arid region in the southwestern United States known for its extreme temperatures, unique desert ecosystems, and iconic landscapes such as Death Valley and Joshua Tree.
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D.
Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
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E.
Amargosa Range
The Amargosa Range is a mountain range in eastern California and Nevada that forms the eastern boundary of Death Valley and is known for its rugged desert peaks and colorful badlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American people
ⓘ
indigenous people of North America ⓘ |
| artForm |
basketry
ⓘ
body art ⓘ pottery ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| culturalPractice |
body painting
ⓘ
distinctive tattooing ⓘ dream-guided spirituality ⓘ elaborate oral traditions ⓘ |
| demographicLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| federalRecognition |
Colorado River Indian Tribes
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation
Fort Mojave Indian Tribe ⓘ
surface form:
Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California & Nevada
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Aha Makhav
ⓘ
Mojave, California ⓘ
surface form:
Mojave
|
| language |
Mojave language
ⓘ
surface form:
Mohave language
|
| languageBranch | River Yuman ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Yuman language family ⓘ |
| mainCrops |
beans
ⓘ
corn ⓘ cotton ⓘ pumpkins ⓘ squash ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | people by the river ⓘ |
| oralTraditionFeature |
hero tales
ⓘ
migration narratives ⓘ origin stories ⓘ |
| region |
southwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American Southwest
Lower Colorado River region ⓘ
surface form:
Lower Colorado River Valley
|
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Havasupai
ⓘ
Maricopa ⓘ Quechan people ⓘ
surface form:
Quechan
Yavapai ⓘ |
| reservation |
Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado River Indian Reservation
Fort Mojave Indian Reservation ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy | trade along the Colorado River ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing |
brush dwellings
ⓘ
earthen structures ⓘ |
| traditionalReligionFeature |
ancestor veneration
ⓘ
dream visions ⓘ |
| traditionalReligionType | animism ⓘ |
| traditionalSettlementPattern | riverine settlements ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ riverine agriculture ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
lower Colorado River region
ⓘ
present-day Arizona ⓘ present-day California ⓘ present-day Nevada ⓘ |
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: Mohave Description of subject: The Mohave are a Native American people traditionally living along the lower Colorado River in what is now Arizona, California, and Nevada, known for their riverine agriculture, distinctive tattoos, and rich oral traditions.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.