Kei people
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The Kei people are an indigenous ethnic group from the Kei Islands in southeastern Maluku, Indonesia, known for their seafaring traditions, distinctive Austronesian language, and customary law system (adat).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kei people canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7379697 — 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: Kei people Context triple: [Maluku peoples, subgroup, Kei people]
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A.
Miyako people
The Miyako people are an indigenous Ryukyuan ethnic group from Japan’s Miyako Islands, with their own distinct Miyako language and cultural traditions separate from mainland Japanese society.
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B.
Nakanai people
The Nakanai people are an indigenous ethnic group of central New Britain in Papua New Guinea, known for their distinct Austronesian language and rich coastal and rainforest-based cultural traditions.
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C.
Warekena people
The Warekena people are an Indigenous group of the Northwest Amazon, primarily living along rivers in Brazil and Venezuela, known for their distinct Arawakan language and riverine culture.
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D.
Hambukushu people
The Hambukushu people are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of northwestern Botswana and neighboring regions, traditionally known as riverine farmers, fishers, and hunters with a rich cultural heritage closely tied to the Okavango waterways.
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E.
Kawaiisu people
The Kawaiisu people are an Indigenous Native American group traditionally inhabiting the southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains of California, known for their Uto-Aztecan language and rich basketry and rock art traditions.
- 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: Kei people Target entity description: The Kei people are an indigenous ethnic group from the Kei Islands in southeastern Maluku, Indonesia, known for their seafaring traditions, distinctive Austronesian language, and customary law system (adat).
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A.
Miyako people
The Miyako people are an indigenous Ryukyuan ethnic group from Japan’s Miyako Islands, with their own distinct Miyako language and cultural traditions separate from mainland Japanese society.
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B.
Nakanai people
The Nakanai people are an indigenous ethnic group of central New Britain in Papua New Guinea, known for their distinct Austronesian language and rich coastal and rainforest-based cultural traditions.
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C.
Warekena people
The Warekena people are an Indigenous group of the Northwest Amazon, primarily living along rivers in Brazil and Venezuela, known for their distinct Arawakan language and riverine culture.
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D.
Hambukushu people
The Hambukushu people are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of northwestern Botswana and neighboring regions, traditionally known as riverine farmers, fishers, and hunters with a rich cultural heritage closely tied to the Okavango waterways.
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E.
Kawaiisu people
The Kawaiisu people are an Indigenous Native American group traditionally inhabiting the southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains of California, known for their Uto-Aztecan language and rich basketry and rock art traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Kei people Description of subject: The Kei people are an indigenous ethnic group from the Kei Islands in southeastern Maluku, Indonesia, known for their seafaring traditions, distinctive Austronesian language, and customary law system (adat).
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.