Yahi
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The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T766053 — 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: Yahi Context triple: [Alfred L. Kroeber, ethnicGroupResearched, Yahi]
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A.
Harauti
Harauti is an Indo-Aryan dialect of the Rajasthani language spoken primarily in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan, India.
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B.
Huayu
Huayu is a term used primarily in Singapore, Malaysia, and other overseas Chinese communities to refer to the standardized form of Mandarin Chinese used in education and media.
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C.
Haya
Haya is a feminine given name of Arabic origin, commonly used in the Middle East and among Arabic-speaking communities.
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D.
Yuman
Yuman is a Native American language family of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, encompassing several related indigenous languages and peoples.
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E.
Ranna
Ranna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet, celebrated as one of the “three gems” of early Kannada literature for his influential epic and courtly works.
- 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: Yahi Target entity description: The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
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A.
Harauti
Harauti is an Indo-Aryan dialect of the Rajasthani language spoken primarily in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan, India.
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B.
Huayu
Huayu is a term used primarily in Singapore, Malaysia, and other overseas Chinese communities to refer to the standardized form of Mandarin Chinese used in education and media.
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C.
Haya
Haya is a feminine given name of Arabic origin, commonly used in the Middle East and among Arabic-speaking communities.
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D.
Yuman
Yuman is a Native American language family of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, encompassing several related indigenous languages and peoples.
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E.
Ranna
Ranna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet, celebrated as one of the “three gems” of early Kannada literature for his influential epic and courtly works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people of California
ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ Yahi person ⓘ Yana language variety ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Alfred L. Kroeber
ⓘ
T. T. Waterman ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Euro-American settlers in the late 19th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalRegion | California cultural area ⓘ |
| documentedBy |
Alfred L. Kroeber
ⓘ
T. T. Waterman ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf | Northern California ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Yahi self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being among the last surviving independent Indigenous groups in northern California
ⓘ
being the last known member of the Yahi people ⓘ the story of Ishi, their last known member ⓘ |
| language |
Yana language
ⓘ
surface form:
Yahi language
|
| languageFamily |
Yahi
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Yana
|
| languageStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| lastKnownMember | Ishi ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Yahi massacres of the 1860s–1870s ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indigenous peoples of North America
ⓘ
Native peoples of the Sacramento Valley ⓘ |
| placeDiscovered |
City of Oroville, California
ⓘ
surface form:
Oroville, California
|
| populationDeclineCause |
disease introduced by colonization
ⓘ
displacement from traditional lands ⓘ violent conflicts with Euro-American settlers ⓘ |
| region |
present-day Butte County, California
ⓘ
present-day Shasta County, California ⓘ present-day Tehama County, California ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Central Yana
ⓘ
Northern Yana ⓘ Southern Yana ⓘ |
| religion | traditional Indigenous spiritual practices ⓘ |
| residence |
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
ⓘ
surface form:
University of California Museum of Anthropology
|
| status | culturally extinct as a distinct group ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Yana people ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing |
brush shelters
ⓘ
semi-subterranean earth lodges ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering wild plant foods ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Sacramento Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Sacramento Valley region
areas around Deer Creek, Mill Creek, and Antelope Creek ⓘ foothills of the southern Cascade Range ⓘ |
| yearDiscovered | 1911 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Yahi Description of subject: The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yahi language
this entity surface form:
Yana
subject surface form:
Ishi
subject surface form:
Ishi