Spokan people
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The Spokan people are a Native American tribe of the Plateau region in the Pacific Northwest, traditionally centered along the Spokane River in what is now eastern Washington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spokan people canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1003312 — 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: Spokan people Context triple: [Spokane, Washington, namedAfter, Spokan people]
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A.
Duwamish people
The Duwamish people are a Coast Salish Native American tribe indigenous to the Seattle, Washington area, historically known for their central role in regional trade and for leaders such as Chief Seattle.
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B.
Nooksack people
The Nooksack people are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish cultural and linguistic group traditionally inhabiting the Nooksack River valley and surrounding areas in what is now northwestern Washington State.
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C.
Nisqually people
The Nisqually people are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish cultural group traditionally living along the Nisqually River and southern Puget Sound in present-day Washington State.
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D.
Snohomish people
The Snohomish people are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish cultural and linguistic group indigenous to the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
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E.
Kwakiutl people
The Kwakiutl people are an Indigenous group of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada, renowned for their complex social structure, potlatch ceremonies, and rich artistic traditions including totem poles and elaborate masks.
- 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: Spokan people Target entity description: The Spokan people are a Native American tribe of the Plateau region in the Pacific Northwest, traditionally centered along the Spokane River in what is now eastern Washington.
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A.
Duwamish people
The Duwamish people are a Coast Salish Native American tribe indigenous to the Seattle, Washington area, historically known for their central role in regional trade and for leaders such as Chief Seattle.
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B.
Nooksack people
The Nooksack people are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish cultural and linguistic group traditionally inhabiting the Nooksack River valley and surrounding areas in what is now northwestern Washington State.
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C.
Nisqually people
The Nisqually people are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish cultural group traditionally living along the Nisqually River and southern Puget Sound in present-day Washington State.
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D.
Snohomish people
The Snohomish people are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish cultural and linguistic group indigenous to the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
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E.
Kwakiutl people
The Kwakiutl people are an Indigenous group of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada, renowned for their complex social structure, potlatch ceremonies, and rich artistic traditions including totem poles and elaborate masks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Spokan people Description of subject: The Spokan people are a Native American tribe of the Plateau region in the Pacific Northwest, traditionally centered along the Spokane River in what is now eastern Washington.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.