Cabécar people
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The Cabécar people are an Indigenous group of Costa Rica known for their Chibchan language, traditional subsistence practices, and relatively isolated communities in the Talamanca mountain region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cabécar people canonical | 16 |
| Cabécar indigenous communities | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6934784 — 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: Cabécar people Context triple: [Cabécar, selfDesignation, Cabécar people]
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A.
Cavineño people
The Cavineño people are an Indigenous group of the Bolivian Amazon, traditionally living along rivers in northern Bolivia with a culture centered on subsistence agriculture, fishing, and forest resources.
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B.
Amuzgo people
The Amuzgo people are an indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting the border region of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Oto-Manguean language and rich textile-weaving traditions.
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C.
Tacana people
The Tacana people are an Indigenous group of the Bolivian Amazon known for their forest-based livelihoods, rich oral traditions, and efforts to defend their ancestral territories and cultural autonomy.
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D.
Cochimí people
The Cochimí people are an Indigenous group native to the central Baja California peninsula in Mexico, historically known for their hunter-gatherer lifestyle and now largely assimilated, with their original language considered extinct.
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E.
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.
- 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: Cabécar people Target entity description: The Cabécar people are an Indigenous group of Costa Rica known for their Chibchan language, traditional subsistence practices, and relatively isolated communities in the Talamanca mountain region.
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A.
Cavineño people
The Cavineño people are an Indigenous group of the Bolivian Amazon, traditionally living along rivers in northern Bolivia with a culture centered on subsistence agriculture, fishing, and forest resources.
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B.
Amuzgo people
The Amuzgo people are an indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting the border region of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Oto-Manguean language and rich textile-weaving traditions.
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C.
Tacana people
The Tacana people are an Indigenous group of the Bolivian Amazon known for their forest-based livelihoods, rich oral traditions, and efforts to defend their ancestral territories and cultural autonomy.
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D.
Cochimí people
The Cochimí people are an Indigenous group native to the central Baja California peninsula in Mexico, historically known for their hunter-gatherer lifestyle and now largely assimilated, with their original language considered extinct.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Amerindian people
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indigenous people ⓘ language ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Costa Rica ⓘ |
| culturalPractice |
oral tradition
ⓘ
ritual ceremonies ⓘ traditional medicine ⓘ use of medicinal plants ⓘ |
| degreeOfIsolation | relatively high ⓘ |
| hasAutonym | Cabécar ⓘ |
| language | Cabécar language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Chibchan languages
ⓘ
Chibchan languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Caribbean slope of Costa Rica
ⓘ
linked to:
Caribbean coast of Costa Rica
Cartago Province ⓘ Limón Province ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica
ⓘ
linked to:
Indigenous people of Costa Rica
|
| populationDistribution |
indigenous reserves of Talamanca
ⓘ
remote mountain communities ⓘ |
| protectedBy | Costa Rican indigenous law ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | indigenous people of Costa Rica ⓘ |
| region |
Cordillera de Talamanca
ⓘ
Talamanca Mountains ⓘ
linked to:
Talamanca mountain range
|
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Bribri people
ⓘ
linked to:
Bribri
Ngäbe people ⓘ Teribe people ⓘ |
| religion |
animism
ⓘ
shamanism ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | clan-based system ⓘ |
| threat |
cultural assimilation
ⓘ
environmental degradation ⓘ loss of traditional lands ⓘ |
| traditionalCrops |
beans
ⓘ
cacao ⓘ maize ⓘ plantains ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy | subsistence agriculture ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing |
thatched houses
ⓘ
wooden houses ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering of wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ swidden agriculture ⓘ |
| uses | Cabécar language in daily life ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Cabécar people Description of subject: The Cabécar people are an Indigenous group of Costa Rica known for their Chibchan language, traditional subsistence practices, and relatively isolated communities in the Talamanca mountain region.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.