Paresí people
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The Paresí people are an Indigenous group of Brazil, traditionally inhabiting areas of the Mato Grosso region and known for their distinct language, culture, and close relationship with the Amazonian environment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paresí people canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6776745 — 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: Paresí people Context triple: [Paresí–Xingu subgroup, spokenBy, Paresí people]
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A.
Huambisa people
The Huambisa people are an indigenous group of the western Amazon, closely related to the Shuar, known for their distinct language, forest-based livelihoods, and resistance to outside encroachment.
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B.
Mocama people
The Mocama people were a Timucua-speaking Indigenous group who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northeastern Florida and southeastern Georgia prior to and during early Spanish colonization.
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C.
Cabana people
The Cabana people are an indigenous Andean group of Peru known for their traditional agriculture, terraced landscapes, and distinctive cultural heritage in the Colca Valley region.
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D.
Enawené-Nawé people
The Enawené-Nawé people are an Indigenous group of the Brazilian Amazon known for their distinctive ritual life, fishing-based economy, and relative isolation from mainstream Brazilian society.
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E.
Cofán people
The Cofán people are an Indigenous group of the western Amazon rainforest, primarily living in northeastern Ecuador and southern Colombia, known for their deep ecological knowledge and efforts to protect their ancestral 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: Paresí people Target entity description: The Paresí people are an Indigenous group of Brazil, traditionally inhabiting areas of the Mato Grosso region and known for their distinct language, culture, and close relationship with the Amazonian environment.
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A.
Huambisa people
The Huambisa people are an indigenous group of the western Amazon, closely related to the Shuar, known for their distinct language, forest-based livelihoods, and resistance to outside encroachment.
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B.
Mocama people
The Mocama people were a Timucua-speaking Indigenous group who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northeastern Florida and southeastern Georgia prior to and during early Spanish colonization.
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C.
Cabana people
The Cabana people are an indigenous Andean group of Peru known for their traditional agriculture, terraced landscapes, and distinctive cultural heritage in the Colca Valley region.
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D.
Enawené-Nawé people
The Enawené-Nawé people are an Indigenous group of the Brazilian Amazon known for their distinctive ritual life, fishing-based economy, and relative isolation from mainstream Brazilian society.
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E.
Cofán people
The Cofán people are an Indigenous group of the western Amazon rainforest, primarily living in northeastern Ecuador and southern Colombia, known for their deep ecological knowledge and efforts to protect their ancestral lands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Indigenous people ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Haliti
ⓘ
Pareci people ⓘ
linked to:
Pareci
Paresí ⓘ
linked to:
Paresi
|
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| engagedIn |
cultural preservation
ⓘ
language revitalization ⓘ |
| environment | Amazon rainforest ⓘ |
| ethnologueCode | pab ⓘ |
| facedIssue |
deforestation
ⓘ
encroachment by farmers ⓘ land conflicts ⓘ missionary activity ⓘ |
| governedBy | Indigenous associations ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractice |
ceremonial body painting
ⓘ
initiation rites ⓘ ritual dances ⓘ shamanism ⓘ |
| hasRight | demarcated Indigenous territories ⓘ |
| indigenousTo | Brazil ⓘ |
| language | Paresí language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Arawak language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Arawakan languages
|
| modernEconomicActivity |
handicrafts
ⓘ
small-scale agriculture ⓘ wage labor ⓘ |
| partOf |
Arawak peoples
ⓘ
linked to:
Arawak
|
| populationTrend | relatively small population ⓘ |
| primaryState | Mato Grosso ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | Indigenous people of Brazil ⓘ |
| region |
Chapada dos Parecis
ⓘ
Upper Paraguay River basin ⓘ
linked to:
Paraná–Paraguay Basin
|
| relatedGroup | other Arawak-speaking peoples ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
traditional animist beliefs ⓘ |
| traditionalCrop |
beans
ⓘ
maize ⓘ manioc ⓘ sweet potatoes ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy | subsistence economy ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | communal houses ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
Central Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Central-West Region of Brazil
Mato Grosso ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
agriculture
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ gathering ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| uses | slash-and-burn agriculture ⓘ |
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: Paresí people Description of subject: The Paresí people are an Indigenous group of Brazil, traditionally inhabiting areas of the Mato Grosso region and known for their distinct language, culture, and close relationship with the Amazonian environment.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.