Sui people
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The Sui people are an ethnic minority group primarily living in southern China, known for their distinct Tai–Kadai language, traditional festivals, and intricate silver jewelry and textile arts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sui | 2 |
| Sui people canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10920758 — 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: Sui people Context triple: [Sui language, primaryEthnicGroup, Sui people]
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Yuchi people
The Yuchi people are a Native American tribe originally from the southeastern United States, known for their distinct language, cultural traditions, and ceremonial practices.
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Chu people
The Chu people were an ancient ethnic group in southern China who formed the powerful Chu state during the Zhou dynasty, known for their distinct culture, shamanistic traditions, and influential contributions to early Chinese poetry and art.
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Sui dynasty
The Sui dynasty was a short-lived but pivotal Chinese imperial dynasty (581–618 CE) that reunified China after centuries of division and laid the foundations for the subsequent Tang dynasty through major administrative and infrastructural reforms.
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Zhou people
The Zhou people were an ancient Chinese ethnic group that founded and ruled the Zhou dynasty, which laid much of the cultural and political foundation of classical Chinese civilization.
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E.
Wei clan
The Wei clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages that emerged as an independent state during the breakup of the ancient Chinese kingdom of Jin.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sui people Target entity description: The Sui people are an ethnic minority group primarily living in southern China, known for their distinct Tai–Kadai language, traditional festivals, and intricate silver jewelry and textile arts.
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A.
Yuchi people
The Yuchi people are a Native American tribe originally from the southeastern United States, known for their distinct language, cultural traditions, and ceremonial practices.
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B.
Chu people
The Chu people were an ancient ethnic group in southern China who formed the powerful Chu state during the Zhou dynasty, known for their distinct culture, shamanistic traditions, and influential contributions to early Chinese poetry and art.
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C.
Sui dynasty
The Sui dynasty was a short-lived but pivotal Chinese imperial dynasty (581–618 CE) that reunified China after centuries of division and laid the foundations for the subsequent Tang dynasty through major administrative and infrastructural reforms.
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D.
Zhou people
The Zhou people were an ancient Chinese ethnic group that founded and ruled the Zhou dynasty, which laid much of the cultural and political foundation of classical Chinese civilization.
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E.
Wei clan
The Wei clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages that emerged as an independent state during the breakup of the ancient Chinese kingdom of Jin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ethnic group
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ethnic minority in China ⓘ |
| autonym | ai³ sui³ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Southwest China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicStatus | one of the officially recognized ethnic groups of China ⓘ |
| ethnonym | Sui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedWithin | Guizhou Sui and Miao Autonomous Counties NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | bearers of intangible cultural heritage in China ⓘ |
| language | Sui language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tai–Kadai languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 水族 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCulturalHeritage | Sui epics and oral traditions ⓘ |
| populationStatus | small population compared to Han Chinese majority ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
NERFINISHED
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Guizhou Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Yunnan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAsMinorityBy | Government of the People’s Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Bouyei people
NERFINISHED
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Dong people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kam–Sui peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhuang people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
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ancestor worship ⓘ animism ⓘ |
| traditionalArt |
batik
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embroidery ⓘ silver jewelry making ⓘ textile weaving ⓘ |
| traditionalClothingFeature |
indigo-dyed garments
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intricate silver ornaments ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy |
fish farming
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handicraft production ⓘ rice cultivation ⓘ |
| traditionalFestival |
Dragon Boat Festival
NERFINISHED
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Duan Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ Mao Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | stilt houses ⓘ |
| traditionalMusic |
antiphonal singing
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polyphonic folk songs ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Sui script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sui people Description of subject: The Sui people are an ethnic minority group primarily living in southern China, known for their distinct Tai–Kadai language, traditional festivals, and intricate silver jewelry and textile arts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.