Jarawa
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The Jarawa are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of the Andaman Islands known for their long isolation, distinct culture, and efforts to resist outside contact and encroachment.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jarawa people | 10 |
| Jarawa canonical | 6 |
| Jarawa (Andaman Islands) | 3 |
| Jarawa Tribal Reserve | 1 |
| Jarawa culture | 1 |
| Önge-Jarawa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T115373 — 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: Jarawa Context triple: [Andaman and Nicobar Islands, hasIndigenousPeople, Jarawa]
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A.
Khoikhoi
The Khoikhoi are an indigenous pastoralist people of southwestern Africa, historically known for their cattle-herding societies and early encounters with European colonists in what is now South Africa and Namibia.
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B.
Great Andamanese
The Great Andamanese are one of the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, known as a small, endangered community with distinct languages and cultural traditions.
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C.
Mayaimi people
The Mayaimi people were a Native American tribe who historically lived around Lake Okeechobee in what is now southern Florida, known for their distinctive lake-centered culture and for giving their name to the city of Miami.
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D.
Emberá
Emberá is an indigenous language spoken by the Emberá people of Panama and neighboring regions of Colombia, belonging to the Chocoan language family.
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E.
Kuna
Kuna is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Guna (Kuna) people primarily in Panama and parts of Colombia.
- 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: Jarawa Target entity description: The Jarawa are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of the Andaman Islands known for their long isolation, distinct culture, and efforts to resist outside contact and encroachment.
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A.
Khoikhoi
The Khoikhoi are an indigenous pastoralist people of southwestern Africa, historically known for their cattle-herding societies and early encounters with European colonists in what is now South Africa and Namibia.
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B.
Great Andamanese
The Great Andamanese are one of the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, known as a small, endangered community with distinct languages and cultural traditions.
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C.
Mayaimi people
The Mayaimi people were a Native American tribe who historically lived around Lake Okeechobee in what is now southern Florida, known for their distinctive lake-centered culture and for giving their name to the city of Miami.
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D.
Emberá
Emberá is an indigenous language spoken by the Emberá people of Panama and neighboring regions of Colombia, belonging to the Chocoan language family.
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E.
Kuna
Kuna is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Guna (Kuna) people primarily in Panama and parts of Colombia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ethnic group
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hunter-gatherer society ⓘ indigenous people ⓘ tribal community ⓘ |
| contactPolicy |
limited contact with outsiders
ⓘ
resistance to outside encroachment ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| culturalTrait |
distinct body adornment traditions
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distinct language ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| demographicStatus | small population size ⓘ |
| economy | non-monetized subsistence economy ⓘ |
| governanceActor |
Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
|
| governedBy | customary law ⓘ |
| healthRisk | high vulnerability to introduced diseases ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | long-term isolation from outside world ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Ongan languages ⓘ |
| legalProtection | protected under Andaman and Nicobar (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulation, 1956 ⓘ |
| legalStatus | contact with Jarawa is officially restricted ⓘ |
| lifestyle | hunter-gatherer ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Andaman Islands
ⓘ
Andaman and Nicobar Islands ⓘ |
| mobilityPattern | semi-nomadic ⓘ |
| policyIssue | debate over closure of Andaman Trunk Road ⓘ |
| populationType | small-scale society ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Government of India ⓘ |
| region |
Middle Andaman Island
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South Andaman Island ⓘ Western coast of Andaman Islands ⓘ
linked to:
Andaman Islands
|
| relatedGroup |
Great Andamanese (geographical neighbors, not closely related linguistically)
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Andamanese
Onge ⓘ |
| religionType | animistic beliefs ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | small bands ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | Jarawa language ⓘ |
| subsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| territory |
Jarawa Tribal Reserve
ⓘ
linked to:
Jarawa
|
| threat |
encroachment on traditional lands
ⓘ
exposure to outside diseases ⓘ poaching in their territory ⓘ tourism-related exploitation ⓘ |
| transportThreat | Andaman Trunk Road passing through their reserve ⓘ |
| usesEnvironment |
coastal marine resources
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tropical rainforest ⓘ |
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: Jarawa Description of subject: The Jarawa are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of the Andaman Islands known for their long isolation, distinct culture, and efforts to resist outside contact and encroachment.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Scheduled Tribe of India
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