Sakonnet region

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The Sakonnet region is a coastal area in present-day Rhode Island historically inhabited by the Sakonnet (Saconet) band of the Wampanoag people.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Sakonnet region canonical 2
Sakonnet 1
Sakonnet (Saconet) area 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf coastal region
historical region
associatedWithWaterBody Atlantic Ocean
Sakonnet River
continent North America
culturalRegionOf Wampanoag people
hasEthnonymVariant Saconet
Sakonnet region self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sakonnet
hasFeature bays
coastal landscape
estuaries
salt marshes
hasHistoricalPeriod colonial era
pre-contact era
hasNameOrigin Sakonnet band of the Wampanoag
historicallyInhabitedBy Sakonnet band
surface form: Saconet band

Sakonnet band
Wampanoag people
languageHistoricallySpoken Wampanoag language
locatedIn New England
Rhode Island
United States of America
surface form: United States
locatedInModernCounty Newport County
surface form: Newport County, Rhode Island
nearbySettlement Little Compton, Rhode Island
Tiverton, Rhode Island
partOf traditional territory of the Wampanoag people
preColonialInhabitants Sakonnet band
Wampanoag people
presentDayAdministrativeRegion Rhode Island
surface form: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
traditionalSubsistence fishing
hunting
maize agriculture
shellfishing

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Awashonks placeOfResidence Sakonnet region
Awashonks areaOfInfluence Sakonnet region
this entity surface form: Sakonnet territory
Sakonnet band inhabitedRegion Sakonnet region
Sakonnet region hasEthnonymVariant Sakonnet region self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sakonnet
Tobias region Sakonnet region
this entity surface form: Sakonnet (Saconet) area