Swinomish people
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The Swinomish people are a Coast Salish Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, traditionally based around the Skagit River and surrounding coastal areas in what is now Washington State.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swinomish people canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11836424 — 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: Swinomish people Context triple: [Swinomish Channel, namedAfter, Swinomish people]
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A.
Samish people
The Samish people are a Coast Salish Indigenous group of the Pacific Northwest, traditionally based around the San Juan Islands and nearby mainland in what is now Washington State.
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B.
Stillaguamish people
The Stillaguamish people are a Coast Salish Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, traditionally living along the Stillaguamish River in what is now northwestern Washington State.
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C.
Wishram people
The Wishram people are a Native American group of the Chinookan language family traditionally living along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest, known for their river-based trade and fishing culture.
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D.
Maliseet people
The Maliseet people are an Algonquian-speaking Indigenous nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy, traditionally inhabiting the Saint John River valley in what is now northeastern Maine and New Brunswick.
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E.
Menominee people
The Menominee people are a Native American tribe originally from what is now Wisconsin and Michigan, known for their deep connection to the forests and waterways of the Great Lakes 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: Swinomish people Target entity description: The Swinomish people are a Coast Salish Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, traditionally based around the Skagit River and surrounding coastal areas in what is now Washington State.
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A.
Samish people
The Samish people are a Coast Salish Indigenous group of the Pacific Northwest, traditionally based around the San Juan Islands and nearby mainland in what is now Washington State.
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B.
Stillaguamish people
The Stillaguamish people are a Coast Salish Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, traditionally living along the Stillaguamish River in what is now northwestern Washington State.
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C.
Wishram people
The Wishram people are a Native American group of the Chinookan language family traditionally living along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest, known for their river-based trade and fishing culture.
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D.
Maliseet people
The Maliseet people are an Algonquian-speaking Indigenous nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy, traditionally inhabiting the Saint John River valley in what is now northeastern Maine and New Brunswick.
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E.
Menominee people
The Menominee people are a Native American tribe originally from what is now Wisconsin and Michigan, known for their deep connection to the forests and waterways of the Great Lakes region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Coast Salish people
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Native American tribe ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Padilla Bay
NERFINISHED
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Skagit Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Swinomish Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalPractice |
canoe journeys
ⓘ
potlatch-style gatherings ⓘ salmon ceremonies ⓘ |
| culturalRegion |
Northwest Coast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plateau–Coast Salish transition zone ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governingBody | Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fisheries
ⓘ
gaming enterprises ⓘ shellfish aquaculture ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasGovernment | Swinomish Indian Tribal Community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReservationArea | approximately 15 square miles (about 39 km²) ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Salishan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Washington
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State
|
| partOf | Coast Salish cultural group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryState | Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | federally recognized tribe ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Samish people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sauk-Suiattle people NERFINISHED ⓘ Skagit people NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Skagit people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
traditional Coast Salish spirituality ⓘ |
| reservation | Swinomish Indian Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reservationLocatedIn | Skagit County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantWaterBody |
Puget Sound
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Skagit River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| traditionalLanguage | Lushootseed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ shellfish harvesting ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Fidalgo Island area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Puget Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ Skagit River region NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Puget Sound coastal areas ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Latin alphabet (for Lushootseed orthography) 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: Swinomish people Description of subject: The Swinomish people are a Coast Salish Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, traditionally based around the Skagit River and surrounding coastal areas in what is now Washington State.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.