Cocama people
E1031898
The Cocama people are an Indigenous group of the Amazon Basin, traditionally living along major rivers in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, with a distinct language and culture closely tied to fishing and riverine life.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cocama people canonical | 3 |
| Cocama-Cocamilla people | 2 |
| Cocamilla people | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12876752 — 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: Cocama people Context triple: [Amacayacu National Natural Park, inhabitedBy, Cocama people]
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A.
Secoya people
The Secoya people are an indigenous group of the western Amazon, primarily living in Ecuador and Peru, known for their distinct language, traditional forest-based livelihood, and rich shamanic and ceremonial practices.
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B.
Aguaruna people
The Aguaruna people are an Indigenous group of the northern Peruvian Amazon known for their Jivaroan language, forest-based livelihoods, and strong traditions of autonomy and resistance to outside domination.
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C.
Yucuna people
The Yucuna people are an Indigenous group of the northwest Amazon known for their Tukanoan language, complex ritual life, and traditional subsistence based on fishing, hunting, and shifting agriculture.
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D.
Sipakapense people
The Sipakapense people are an indigenous Maya group from the highlands of Guatemala, known for their distinct language, traditional communal practices, and resistance to external exploitation of their lands.
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E.
Tacana people
The Tacana people are an Indigenous group of the Bolivian Amazon known for their forest-based livelihoods, rich oral traditions, and efforts to defend their ancestral territories and cultural autonomy.
- 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: Cocama people Target entity description: The Cocama people are an Indigenous group of the Amazon Basin, traditionally living along major rivers in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, with a distinct language and culture closely tied to fishing and riverine life.
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A.
Secoya people
The Secoya people are an indigenous group of the western Amazon, primarily living in Ecuador and Peru, known for their distinct language, traditional forest-based livelihood, and rich shamanic and ceremonial practices.
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B.
Aguaruna people
The Aguaruna people are an Indigenous group of the northern Peruvian Amazon known for their Jivaroan language, forest-based livelihoods, and strong traditions of autonomy and resistance to outside domination.
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C.
Yucuna people
The Yucuna people are an Indigenous group of the northwest Amazon known for their Tukanoan language, complex ritual life, and traditional subsistence based on fishing, hunting, and shifting agriculture.
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D.
Sipakapense people
The Sipakapense people are an indigenous Maya group from the highlands of Guatemala, known for their distinct language, traditional communal practices, and resistance to external exploitation of their lands.
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E.
Tacana people
The Tacana people are an Indigenous group of the Bolivian Amazon known for their forest-based livelihoods, rich oral traditions, and efforts to defend their ancestral territories and cultural autonomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people
ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ language ⓘ |
| colonialHistory |
contact with Spanish colonizers in the 16th century
ⓘ
missionization by Catholic missionaries ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country |
Brazil
ⓘ
Colombia ⓘ Peru ⓘ |
| culturalPractice |
ritual use of ayahuasca
ⓘ
shamanism ⓘ |
| culture | riverine culture ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
artisanal fishing
ⓘ
river transport ⓘ small-scale agriculture ⓘ |
| environment |
floodplain forests
ⓘ
tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Cocama
ⓘ
linked to:
Cocama-Cocamilla
|
| governedBy | Indigenous community organizations ⓘ |
| language | Cocama language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tupian languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily |
Tupi–Guarani languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Tupi–Guaraní
|
| legalStatus |
recognized Indigenous people in Brazil
ⓘ
recognized Indigenous people in Colombia ⓘ recognized Indigenous people in Peru ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Kokáma
ⓘ
linked to:
Kokama
|
| populationTrend | declining number of fluent speakers of Cocama language ⓘ |
| region | Amazon Basin ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Omagua people
ⓘ
Tupian peoples ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
traditional indigenous religion ⓘ |
| selfIdentification | Indigenous peoples of the Amazon ⓘ |
| threat |
cultural assimilation
ⓘ
deforestation ⓘ loss of traditional lands ⓘ river pollution ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering ⓘ hunting ⓘ riverine agriculture ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Amazon River
ⓘ
Huallaga River ⓘ Marañón River ⓘ Ucayali River ⓘ |
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: Cocama people Description of subject: The Cocama people are an Indigenous group of the Amazon Basin, traditionally living along major rivers in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, with a distinct language and culture closely tied to fishing and riverine life.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cocama people
linked to: Cocama people
linked to: Cocama people