Crow–Hidatsa branch
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The Crow–Hidatsa branch is a subgroup of the Siouan language family that includes the closely related Crow and Hidatsa languages historically spoken in the Northern Plains of the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crow–Hidatsa branch canonical | 1 |
| Missouri River Siouan subgroup | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11742854 — 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: Crow–Hidatsa branch Context triple: [Crow language, subfamilyOf, Crow–Hidatsa branch]
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A.
Plains Algonquian
Plains Algonquian is a branch of the Algonquian language family traditionally spoken by Indigenous peoples of the North American Great Plains.
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B.
Eastern Siouan peoples
The Eastern Siouan peoples are a group of Indigenous nations of the Eastern Woodlands region of North America who speak or historically spoke Siouan languages and share related cultural and historical traditions.
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C.
Hidatsa people
The Hidatsa people are a Native American tribe of the Northern Plains, historically known as semi-sedentary agriculturalists and traders who lived in earth-lodge villages along the upper Missouri River, closely allied with the Mandan and Arikara.
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D.
Siouan languages
Siouan languages are a family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken by numerous Native American peoples across the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.
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E.
Dhegiha Siouan peoples
The Dhegiha Siouan peoples are a closely related group of Native American tribes of the Siouan language family, including the Ponca, Omaha, Osage, Kansa, and Quapaw, traditionally located in the central United States.
- 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: Crow–Hidatsa branch Target entity description: The Crow–Hidatsa branch is a subgroup of the Siouan language family that includes the closely related Crow and Hidatsa languages historically spoken in the Northern Plains of the United States.
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A.
Plains Algonquian
Plains Algonquian is a branch of the Algonquian language family traditionally spoken by Indigenous peoples of the North American Great Plains.
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B.
Eastern Siouan peoples
The Eastern Siouan peoples are a group of Indigenous nations of the Eastern Woodlands region of North America who speak or historically spoke Siouan languages and share related cultural and historical traditions.
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C.
Hidatsa people
The Hidatsa people are a Native American tribe of the Northern Plains, historically known as semi-sedentary agriculturalists and traders who lived in earth-lodge villages along the upper Missouri River, closely allied with the Mandan and Arikara.
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D.
Siouan languages
Siouan languages are a family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken by numerous Native American peoples across the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.
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E.
Dhegiha Siouan peoples
The Dhegiha Siouan peoples are a closely related group of Native American tribes of the Siouan language family, including the Ponca, Omaha, Osage, Kansa, and Quapaw, traditionally located in the central United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of language family
ⓘ
language subgroup ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Missouri River Siouan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClassificationStatus | generally accepted in Siouan comparative linguistics ⓘ |
| hasDocumentationStatus | well-documented compared to some other Siouan branches ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentContext | member languages are endangered or threatened ⓘ |
| hasGeographicRegion | Northern Plains of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContact |
Caddoan languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plains Algonquian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRegion |
Montana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Missouri River region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily | Siouan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticRelationship | Crow and Hidatsa are closely related ⓘ |
| hasMemberEthnicGroup |
Crow people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hidatsa people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
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rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasProtoLanguage | Proto-Crow–Hidatsa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReconstructionWork | subject of comparative and reconstruction studies in Siouan linguistics ⓘ |
| hasSubclassification | Western Siouan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypology | polysynthetic language structure ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | primarily SOV ⓘ |
| includesLanguage |
Crow language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hidatsa language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Siouan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Siouan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Crow–Hidatsa branch Description of subject: The Crow–Hidatsa branch is a subgroup of the Siouan language family that includes the closely related Crow and Hidatsa languages historically spoken in the Northern Plains of the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Missouri River Siouan subgroup