Cheyenne people
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Algonquian language
Cheyenne subgroup
Indigenous people of the Great Plains
Native American people
battle
federally recognized tribe
massacre
The Cheyenne people are a Native American nation of the Great Plains known for their warrior culture, alliance with the Arapaho and Lakota, and significant role in 19th-century U.S. frontier history.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1345455 — 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: Cheyenne people Context triple: [Indian Territory, ethnicGroup, Cheyenne people]
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Kiowa people
The Kiowa people are a Native American tribe of the Great Plains known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture, rich oral traditions, and historical presence in what is now Oklahoma and surrounding regions.
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Shoshoni
Shoshoni is a Native American language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan family, traditionally spoken by the Shoshone people of the western United States.
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Sioux people
The Sioux people are a group of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples of the Great Plains, known for their rich cultural traditions, warrior society, and historical resistance to U.S. expansion.
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Ute people
The Ute people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, known for their hunter-gatherer traditions, horsemanship, and enduring cultural presence in Colorado, Utah, and neighboring areas.
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Pueblo peoples
The Pueblo peoples are Native American communities of the Southwestern United States known for their ancient cliff dwellings, multi-story adobe villages, and rich traditions of pottery, weaving, and ceremonial life.
- 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: Cheyenne people Target entity description: The Cheyenne people are a Native American nation of the Great Plains known for their warrior culture, alliance with the Arapaho and Lakota, and significant role in 19th-century U.S. frontier history.
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A.
Kiowa people
The Kiowa people are a Native American tribe of the Great Plains known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture, rich oral traditions, and historical presence in what is now Oklahoma and surrounding regions.
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B.
Shoshoni
Shoshoni is a Native American language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan family, traditionally spoken by the Shoshone people of the western United States.
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C.
Sioux people
The Sioux people are a group of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples of the Great Plains, known for their rich cultural traditions, warrior society, and historical resistance to U.S. expansion.
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D.
Ute people
The Ute people are a Native American tribe indigenous to the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, known for their hunter-gatherer traditions, horsemanship, and enduring cultural presence in Colorado, Utah, and neighboring areas.
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E.
Pueblo peoples
The Pueblo peoples are Native American communities of the Southwestern United States known for their ancient cliff dwellings, multi-story adobe villages, and rich traditions of pottery, weaving, and ceremonial life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Cheyenne people Description of subject: The Cheyenne people are a Native American nation of the Great Plains known for their warrior culture, alliance with the Arapaho and Lakota, and significant role in 19th-century U.S. frontier history.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Northern Cheyenne
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Northern Cheyenne
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Northern Cheyenne
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Northern Cheyenne
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Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation
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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
this entity surface form:
Northern Cheyenne
this entity surface form:
Northern Cheyenne Tribe
this entity surface form:
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
this entity surface form:
Cheyenne and Arapaho
this entity surface form:
Northern Cheyenne
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Making-Out-Road
this entity surface form:
Northern Cheyenne
this entity surface form:
Northern Cheyenne people
this entity surface form:
Northern Cheyenne
subject surface form:
Cheyenne County, Colorado
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Northern Cheyenne warriors
this entity surface form:
Northern Cheyenne Tribe
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Cheyenne culture