Anzick site
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The Anzick site is an important archaeological location in Montana where the only known Clovis-era child burial in North America was discovered, yielding some of the continent’s oldest human remains and associated artifacts.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anzick site canonical | 2 |
| Anzick family | 1 |
| Anzick-1 individual | 1 |
| Anzick-1 remains | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1949948 — 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: Anzick site Context triple: [Paleo-Indian period, associatedWith, Anzick site]
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A.
Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
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B.
Cactus Hill site
Cactus Hill site is an archaeological location in southeastern Virginia notable for evidence suggesting some of the earliest human occupation in North America, potentially predating the Clovis culture.
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C.
Meadowcroft Rockshelter
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site in Pennsylvania renowned for evidence of some of the earliest known human habitation in North America.
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D.
Monte Verde site
The Monte Verde site is an archaeological location in southern Chile that provides some of the earliest widely accepted evidence of human presence in the Americas, challenging the traditional Clovis-first model.
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E.
Lindenmeier site
The Lindenmeier site is a renowned Folsom culture archaeological site in Colorado that preserves extensive evidence of early Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers and their bison-hunting activities.
- 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: Anzick site Target entity description: The Anzick site is an important archaeological location in Montana where the only known Clovis-era child burial in North America was discovered, yielding some of the continent’s oldest human remains and associated artifacts.
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A.
Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
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B.
Cactus Hill site
Cactus Hill site is an archaeological location in southeastern Virginia notable for evidence suggesting some of the earliest human occupation in North America, potentially predating the Clovis culture.
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C.
Meadowcroft Rockshelter
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site in Pennsylvania renowned for evidence of some of the earliest known human habitation in North America.
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D.
Monte Verde site
The Monte Verde site is an archaeological location in southern Chile that provides some of the earliest widely accepted evidence of human presence in the Americas, challenging the traditional Clovis-first model.
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E.
Lindenmeier site
The Lindenmeier site is a renowned Folsom culture archaeological site in Colorado that preserves extensive evidence of early Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers and their bison-hunting activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Paleoindian site
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Paleoindian archaeology
ⓘ
ancient DNA research ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture | Clovis culture ⓘ |
| burialTreatment | use of red ocher ⓘ |
| burialType | subsurface burial ⓘ |
| chronologicalPeriod | Clovis era ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| discoveredBy | construction workers ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 1968 ⓘ |
| hasArtifactType |
Clovis projectile points
ⓘ
antler tools ⓘ bifaces ⓘ bone tools ⓘ stone tools ⓘ |
| hasDatingEvidence |
Pleistocene-age human remains
ⓘ
radiocarbon-dated artifacts ⓘ |
| hasDiscovery |
Anzick site
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Anzick-1 remains
Clovis artifacts ⓘ human infant burial ⓘ red ocher-covered burial ⓘ |
| hasHumanRemains |
Anzick site
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Anzick-1 individual
infant male individual ⓘ |
| hasPreservationState |
good preservation of lithic artifacts
ⓘ
good preservation of skeletal material ⓘ |
| importanceToDiscipline |
American archaeology
ⓘ
paleoanthropology ⓘ population genetics ⓘ |
| linkedTo | early Native American populations ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Montana
ⓘ
Park County, Montana ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter |
Anzick site
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Anzick family
|
| radiocarbonAge |
Late Pleistocene
ⓘ
approximately 12,600 years before present ⓘ |
| researchMethod |
genome sequencing
ⓘ
radiocarbon dating ⓘ stratigraphic analysis ⓘ |
| significance |
contains some of the oldest human remains in North America
ⓘ
key evidence for early peopling of the Americas ⓘ only known Clovis-era child burial in North America ⓘ |
| stratigraphicContext | burial found beneath sandstone slab ⓘ |
| usedFor | genetic studies of Native American ancestry ⓘ |
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: Anzick site Description of subject: The Anzick site is an important archaeological location in Montana where the only known Clovis-era child burial in North America was discovered, yielding some of the continent’s oldest human remains and associated artifacts.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Anzick-1 remains
this entity surface form:
Anzick family
this entity surface form:
Anzick-1 individual