Mimbres branch
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The Mimbres branch is a regional subgroup of the Mogollon culture in the American Southwest, best known for its distinctive black-on-white pottery featuring intricate geometric and figurative designs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mimbres branch canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2039274 — 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: Mimbres branch Context triple: [Mogollon culture, hasSubculture, Mimbres branch]
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A.
Cottonwood
Cottonwood is a small unincorporated community in Northern California known for its rural character and location between Redding and Red Bluff.
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B.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
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C.
Frijoles Canyon
Frijoles Canyon is a scenic canyon in northern New Mexico known for its ancient Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and archaeological sites.
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D.
Perea
Perea was a region east of the Jordan River in the early 1st century CE, forming part of Herod Antipas’s tetrarchy within the broader territory of Roman-era Judea.
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E.
Palo Cedro
Palo Cedro is a small unincorporated community in Northern California known for its rural character and proximity to the city of Redding.
- 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: Mimbres branch Target entity description: The Mimbres branch is a regional subgroup of the Mogollon culture in the American Southwest, best known for its distinctive black-on-white pottery featuring intricate geometric and figurative designs.
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A.
Cottonwood
Cottonwood is a small unincorporated community in Northern California known for its rural character and location between Redding and Red Bluff.
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B.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
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C.
Frijoles Canyon
Frijoles Canyon is a scenic canyon in northern New Mexico known for its ancient Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and archaeological sites.
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D.
Perea
Perea was a region east of the Jordan River in the early 1st century CE, forming part of Herod Antipas’s tetrarchy within the broader territory of Roman-era Judea.
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E.
Palo Cedro
Palo Cedro is a small unincorporated community in Northern California known for its rural character and proximity to the city of Redding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mogollon culture subgroup
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archaeological culture ⓘ |
| chronologicallyWithin | Late Formative period of the U.S. Southwest ⓘ |
| culturalContinuityWith | later Pueblo communities in the Southwest (hypothesized) ⓘ |
| developedFrom | earlier Mogollon pithouse traditions ⓘ |
| flourishedDuring | circa 1000–1150 CE ⓘ |
| hasArtStyle |
complex geometric patterning
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naturalistic animal imagery ⓘ stylized human figures ⓘ |
| hasBurialPractice |
interment beneath house floors
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placement of decorated bowls over the head of the deceased ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
pithouse architecture in earlier phases
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subterranean kivas or ceremonial structures ⓘ villages with above-ground masonry roomblocks ⓘ |
| hasDebatedTopic | abandonment and population dispersal after Classic period ⓘ |
| hasEconomy |
bean cultivation
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hunting and gathering ⓘ maize agriculture ⓘ squash cultivation ⓘ |
| hasLanguageContext | ancestral to or related to later Puebloan groups (hypothesized) ⓘ |
| hasMajorSite |
Mattocks Ruin
ⓘ
NAN Ranch Ruin ⓘ
surface form:
Nan Ranch Ruin
Old Town site ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Mimbres Valley
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upper Gila River drainage ⓘ |
| hasStyleVariant |
Boldface Black-on-white
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Mimbres pottery ⓘ
surface form:
Classic Mimbres Black-on-white
Mimbres pottery ⓘ
surface form:
Early Mimbres Black-on-white
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| hasTimePeriod |
Classic Mimbres period
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Late Pithouse period ⓘ |
| influenced | modern Southwestern ceramic art ⓘ |
| knownFor |
black-on-white pottery
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bowl paintings of animals ⓘ bowl paintings of humans ⓘ bowl paintings of mythological scenes ⓘ figurative pottery designs ⓘ geometric pottery designs ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
southwestern United States
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surface form:
American Southwest
southwestern New Mexico ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mimbres River ⓘ |
| partOf | Mogollon culture ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Ancestral Puebloans
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surface form:
Ancestral Puebloan cultures
Hohokam culture ⓘ |
| studiedBy | archaeologists ⓘ |
| usesMaterial | ceramic ⓘ |
| usesTechnique | slipped white surfaces with black paint ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: Mimbres branch Description of subject: The Mimbres branch is a regional subgroup of the Mogollon culture in the American Southwest, best known for its distinctive black-on-white pottery featuring intricate geometric and figurative designs.
Referenced by (2)
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