Marksville site
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The Marksville site is an important archaeological complex in Louisiana known for its elaborate earthworks and burial mounds associated with the Middle Woodland–period Hopewell cultural network.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marksville State Historic Site | 1 |
| Marksville site canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2109787 — 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: Marksville site Context triple: [Hopewell tradition, hasSite, Marksville site]
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A.
Kincaid Mounds
Kincaid Mounds is a significant pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Ohio River Valley, known for its large earthen platform mounds and role as a regional center of Mississippian culture.
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B.
Moundville Archaeological Park
Moundville Archaeological Park is a major pre-Columbian Native American site featuring large earthen mounds and artifacts from the Mississippian culture, located along the Black Warrior River in Alabama.
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C.
Etowah Indian Mounds
Etowah Indian Mounds is a significant prehistoric archaeological site in Georgia featuring large earthen mounds built by the Mississippian peoples between roughly 1000 and 1550 CE.
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D.
Spiro Mounds
Spiro Mounds is a significant pre-Columbian archaeological site in present-day Oklahoma, known for its large earthen mounds and role as a major ceremonial and trade center of the Mississippian culture.
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E.
Bayou Choctaw storage site
The Bayou Choctaw storage site is an underground salt cavern facility in Louisiana used by the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to store crude oil for emergency energy supplies.
- 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: Marksville site Target entity description: The Marksville site is an important archaeological complex in Louisiana known for its elaborate earthworks and burial mounds associated with the Middle Woodland–period Hopewell cultural network.
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A.
Kincaid Mounds
Kincaid Mounds is a significant pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Ohio River Valley, known for its large earthen platform mounds and role as a regional center of Mississippian culture.
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B.
Moundville Archaeological Park
Moundville Archaeological Park is a major pre-Columbian Native American site featuring large earthen mounds and artifacts from the Mississippian culture, located along the Black Warrior River in Alabama.
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C.
Etowah Indian Mounds
Etowah Indian Mounds is a significant prehistoric archaeological site in Georgia featuring large earthen mounds built by the Mississippian peoples between roughly 1000 and 1550 CE.
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D.
Spiro Mounds
Spiro Mounds is a significant pre-Columbian archaeological site in present-day Oklahoma, known for its large earthen mounds and role as a major ceremonial and trade center of the Mississippian culture.
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E.
Bayou Choctaw storage site
The Bayou Choctaw storage site is an underground salt cavern facility in Louisiana used by the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to store crude oil for emergency energy supplies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hopewell tradition site
ⓘ
Middle Woodland period site ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ |
| area | approximately 42 acres ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culture |
Hopewell tradition
ⓘ
Marksville culture ⓘ |
| dateAddedToNRHP | 1966-10-15 ⓘ |
| dateDesignatedNationalHistoricLandmark | 1964-07-19 ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Clarence B. Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | on a bluff above an oxbow lake of the Mississippi River system ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Clarence B. Moore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James A. Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
burial mounds
ⓘ
ditches ⓘ earthworks ⓘ embankments ⓘ plaza ⓘ |
| hasMound |
Mound 10
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Mound 11 ⓘ Mound 12 ⓘ Mound 13 ⓘ Mound 14 ⓘ Mound 15 ⓘ Mound 16 ⓘ Mound 17 ⓘ Mound 18 ⓘ Mound 19 ⓘ Mound 20 ⓘ Mound 21 ⓘ Mound 22 ⓘ Mound 23 ⓘ Mound 24 ⓘ Mound 25 ⓘ Mound 26 ⓘ Mound 27 ⓘ Mound 28 ⓘ Mound 29 ⓘ Mound 30 ⓘ Mound 4 ⓘ Mound 5 ⓘ Mound 5 ⓘ
surface form:
Mound 6
Mound 7 ⓘ Mound 8 ⓘ Mound 9 ⓘ |
| hasView | Old River oxbow lake ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
ⓘ
National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
|
| locatedIn |
Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| managedBy |
Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism
ⓘ
surface form:
Louisiana Office of State Parks
|
| namedAfter |
Marksville, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Marksville, Louisiana
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| nearestCity |
Marksville, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Marksville, Louisiana
|
| NRHPReferenceNumber | 66000369 ⓘ |
| NRHPType | National Historic Landmark ⓘ |
| overlooks |
Atchafalaya River
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surface form:
Old River
|
| partOf |
Marksville site
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Marksville State Historic Site
|
| significance |
key regional center in the Hopewell interaction sphere
ⓘ
type site for the Marksville culture ⓘ |
| state | Louisiana ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Woodland period ⓘ |
| usedFor |
burial
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ceremonial activities ⓘ social gatherings ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: Marksville site Description of subject: The Marksville site is an important archaeological complex in Louisiana known for its elaborate earthworks and burial mounds associated with the Middle Woodland–period Hopewell cultural network.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marksville State Historic Site