Cahuilla people
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The Cahuilla people are a Native American tribe indigenous to inland Southern California, traditionally inhabiting desert and mountain regions and known for their complex social organization, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cahuilla people canonical | 42 |
| Cahuilla | 18 |
| Pass Cahuilla | 3 |
| Cahuilla Nation | 2 |
| Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians | 1 |
| Cahuilla Band of Indians | 1 |
| Cahuilla and Serrano people | 1 |
| Cahuilla culture | 1 |
| Cahuilla elders | 1 |
| Cahuilla tribal communities | 1 |
| Cahuilla tribes | 1 |
| Cahuilla-Cupeño group | 1 |
| Cupeño people | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12184 — 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.
Target entity: Cahuilla people Context triple: [Mojave Desert, hasCulturalSignificanceFor, Cahuilla people]
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Mojave people
The Mojave people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the lower Colorado River region, whose culture, traditions, and identity are deeply rooted in the Mojave Desert landscape.
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B.
Chemehuevi people
The Chemehuevi people are a Southern Paiute Native American group traditionally inhabiting areas of the Mojave Desert and lower Colorado River, known for their rich oral traditions, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
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C.
Southern Sierra Miwok
The Southern Sierra Miwok are a Native American people of California whose traditional homeland includes the Yosemite Valley and surrounding Sierra Nevada foothills.
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D.
Wampanoag people
The Wampanoag people are a Native American nation of the northeastern United States, historically known for inhabiting present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island and for their pivotal early contact with English colonists in the 17th century.
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E.
Taíno
The Taíno were an Indigenous Arawakan-speaking people of the Caribbean, especially the Greater Antilles, whose culture and language significantly influenced the region before and after European contact.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Cahuilla people Target entity description: The Cahuilla people are a Native American tribe indigenous to inland Southern California, traditionally inhabiting desert and mountain regions and known for their complex social organization, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
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A.
Mojave people
The Mojave people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the lower Colorado River region, whose culture, traditions, and identity are deeply rooted in the Mojave Desert landscape.
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B.
Chemehuevi people
The Chemehuevi people are a Southern Paiute Native American group traditionally inhabiting areas of the Mojave Desert and lower Colorado River, known for their rich oral traditions, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
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C.
Southern Sierra Miwok
The Southern Sierra Miwok are a Native American people of California whose traditional homeland includes the Yosemite Valley and surrounding Sierra Nevada foothills.
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D.
Colorado River Indian Tribes
The Colorado River Indian Tribes is a federally recognized tribal nation in the southwestern United States composed primarily of Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo peoples, with a reservation along the Colorado River in Arizona and California.
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E.
Wampanoag people
The Wampanoag people are a Native American nation of the northeastern United States, historically known for inhabiting present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island and for their pivotal early contact with English colonists in the 17th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American people
ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan language ⓘ indigenous people of California ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| federallyRecognizedTribe |
Cahuilla people
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
Cahuilla people self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cahuilla Band of Indians
Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeño Indians ⓘ Morongo Band of Mission Indians ⓘ Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeño Indians ⓘ
surface form:
Ramona Band of Cahuilla
Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians ⓘ Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians ⓘ |
| historicallyAffectedBy |
Spanish missions in California
ⓘ
surface form:
California mission system
Mexican rule in California ⓘ United States expansion in the 19th century ⓘ |
| historicallyContactedBy | Spanish colonizers ⓘ |
| indigenousTo |
Sonoran Desert
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado Desert
Inland Empire region of California ⓘ San Bernardino Mountains ⓘ San Jacinto Mountains ⓘ Santa Rosa Mountains ⓘ Southern California ⓘ |
| knownFor |
adaptation to arid environments
ⓘ
basketry ⓘ complex social organization ⓘ |
| language | Cahuilla language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan languages
|
| partOf | Takic peoples ⓘ |
| practices |
bird songs tradition
ⓘ
ceremonial dances ⓘ |
| presentIn |
Imperial County
ⓘ
surface form:
Imperial County, California
Riverside County ⓘ
surface form:
Riverside County, California
San Diego County ⓘ
surface form:
San Diego County, California
|
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Cahuilla people
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cupeño people
Tongva people ⓘ
surface form:
Gabrielino-Tongva people
Luiseño people ⓘ Serrano people ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | clan-based system ⓘ |
| subfamily | Takic branch ⓘ |
| traditionalCraft |
coiled basketry
ⓘ
net-making ⓘ |
| traditionalFood |
acorn mush
ⓘ
agave ⓘ cactus fruits ⓘ mesquite beans ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing |
brush shelters
ⓘ
kíicha dwellings ⓘ |
| traditionalReligion | Cahuilla traditional religion ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
acorn processing
ⓘ
agriculture ⓘ gathering ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritoryIncludes |
Anza Valley
ⓘ
Coachella Valley ⓘ Cajon Pass ⓘ
surface form:
San Gorgonio Pass
|
| usesWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Cahuilla people Description of subject: The Cahuilla people are a Native American tribe indigenous to inland Southern California, traditionally inhabiting desert and mountain regions and known for their complex social organization, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.