Tocobaga
E77837
The Tocobaga were a Native American people who inhabited the Tampa Bay region of Florida prior to European contact.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T616072 — 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: Tocobaga Context triple: [Mayaimi people, neighboringGroup, Tocobaga]
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A.
Tequesta
The Tequesta were a Native American people who inhabited the southeastern coast of Florida, particularly around present-day Miami and the Florida Keys, prior to European contact.
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B.
Calusa
The Calusa were a powerful Indigenous people of southwest Florida known for their complex chiefdom, maritime culture, and resistance to European colonization.
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C.
Weno
Weno is the main urban and commercial center of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia, known for its lagoon setting and role as a regional hub.
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D.
Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people originally from Florida, known for their resistance to U.S. expansion and forced relocation during the 19th century.
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E.
Patuxet
Patuxet was a 17th-century Indigenous Wampanoag village located at the site of present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, known for its early contact with English colonists and devastation by epidemic disease.
- 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: Tocobaga Target entity description: The Tocobaga were a Native American people who inhabited the Tampa Bay region of Florida prior to European contact.
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A.
Tequesta
The Tequesta were a Native American people who inhabited the southeastern coast of Florida, particularly around present-day Miami and the Florida Keys, prior to European contact.
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B.
Calusa
The Calusa were a powerful Indigenous people of southwest Florida known for their complex chiefdom, maritime culture, and resistance to European colonization.
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C.
Weno
Weno is the main urban and commercial center of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia, known for its lagoon setting and role as a regional hub.
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D.
Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people originally from Florida, known for their resistance to U.S. expansion and forced relocation during the 19th century.
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E.
Patuxet
Patuxet was a 17th-century Indigenous Wampanoag village located at the site of present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, known for its early contact with English colonists and devastation by epidemic disease.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American people
ⓘ
indigenous people of Florida ⓘ |
| affectedBy |
European diseases
ⓘ
Spanish colonization ⓘ
linked to:
Spanish colonization of the Americas
slave raids ⓘ |
| archaeologicalCulture | Safety Harbor archaeological culture ⓘ |
| burialPractice | mound burials ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culture | mound-building culture ⓘ |
| declineCause |
epidemic disease
ⓘ
forced relocation ⓘ warfare ⓘ |
| diet |
fish
ⓘ
maize ⓘ shellfish ⓘ wild game ⓘ |
| economy |
fishing
ⓘ
hunting ⓘ maize agriculture ⓘ shellfish gathering ⓘ |
| encountered |
Hernando de Soto expedition
ⓘ
linked to:
Hernando de Soto
Pánfilo de Narváez ⓘ Spanish explorers ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
Tampa Bay region
ⓘ
linked to:
Tampa Bay area
|
| hasCapital | Tocobaga chief town at Safety Harbor ⓘ |
| housing | thatched structures ⓘ |
| knownFor |
shell mounds
ⓘ
temple mounds ⓘ village chiefdoms ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Muskogean languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Florida
ⓘ
Gulf Coast of Florida ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf Coast of the United States
Tampa Bay ⓘ
linked to:
Tampa Bay area
|
| mainSettlement |
Old Tampa Bay
ⓘ
linked to:
Hillsborough Bay
Safety Harbor site ⓘ |
| neighboringGroup |
Calusa
ⓘ
Mocoso ⓘ Potano ⓘ Timucua ⓘ |
| partOf | Safety Harbor culture ⓘ |
| region |
Pinellas County area
ⓘ
linked to:
Pinellas County, Florida
north side of Old Tampa Bay ⓘ |
| religion | Native American religion ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | chiefdom ⓘ |
| status | culturally extinct as a distinct group ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
16th century
ⓘ
pre-Columbian era ⓘ |
| usedMaterial |
bone
ⓘ
shell ⓘ wood ⓘ |
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: Tocobaga Description of subject: The Tocobaga were a Native American people who inhabited the Tampa Bay region of Florida prior to European contact.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tocobaga