Lakota
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The Lakota are a Native American people of the Great Plains, known as one of the three main divisions of the Sioux and for their warrior culture and resistance to U.S. expansion in the 19th century.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lakota canonical | 37 |
| Lakota Sioux | 14 |
| Oglala Lakota | 3 |
| Lakȟóta | 2 |
| Lakota culture | 1 |
| Lakota men | 1 |
| Lakota tiyospaye (extended family) structure | 1 |
| Lakota tiyospaye system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2201250 — 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.
Target entity: Lakota Context triple: [Pawnee, historicalEnemy, Lakota]
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A.
Lakota language
The Lakota language is a Native American Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people, known for its rich oral tradition and ongoing revitalization efforts.
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B.
Blackfoot
The Blackfoot are a Native American people known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture, warrior traditions, and historic presence across the northern Great Plains of what is now the United States and Canada.
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C.
Dakota language
The Dakota language is a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota (Eastern Sioux) people of the Northern Plains region of North America.
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D.
Cherokee
The Cherokee are a Native American people originally from the southeastern United States, known for their complex social and political organization, rich oral traditions, and significant role in early American history, including the Trail of Tears.
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E.
Dene
The Dene are a group of First Nations peoples of the subarctic regions of Canada, known for their Athabaskan languages, deep land-based traditions, and long-standing presence across the northern interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Lakota Target entity description: The Lakota are a Native American people of the Great Plains, known as one of the three main divisions of the Sioux and for their warrior culture and resistance to U.S. expansion in the 19th century.
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A.
Lakota language
The Lakota language is a Native American Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people, known for its rich oral tradition and ongoing revitalization efforts.
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B.
Blackfoot
The Blackfoot are a Native American people known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture, warrior traditions, and historic presence across the northern Great Plains of what is now the United States and Canada.
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C.
Dakota language
The Dakota language is a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota (Eastern Sioux) people of the Northern Plains region of North America.
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D.
Cherokee
The Cherokee are a Native American people originally from the southeastern United States, known for their complex social and political organization, rich oral traditions, and significant role in early American history, including the Trail of Tears.
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E.
Dene
The Dene are a group of First Nations peoples of the subarctic regions of Canada, known for their Athabaskan languages, deep land-based traditions, and long-standing presence across the northern interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people of the Great Plains
ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ Sioux subgroup ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lakota
ⓘ
surface form:
Lakȟóta
Teton Sioux ⓘ |
| contemporaryReservation |
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
ⓘ
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ⓘ Rosebud Indian Reservation ⓘ Standing Rock Indian Reservation ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSymbol |
buffalo
ⓘ
eagle ⓘ |
| divisionOf |
Great Sioux Nation
ⓘ
surface form:
Sioux Nation
|
| ethnicGroupOf |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasClanSystem | yes ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
Blackfoot Lakota
ⓘ
Brulé ⓘ Hunkpapa Lakota ⓘ
surface form:
Hunkpapa
Miniconjou ⓘ Oglala Lakota ⓘ
surface form:
Oglala
Sans Arc ⓘ Two Kettles ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
19th-century American West
ⓘ
pre-Columbian North America ⓘ |
| historicalTerritory |
present-day Montana
ⓘ
surface form:
Present-day Montana
present-day Nebraska ⓘ
surface form:
Present-day Nebraska
North Dakota ⓘ
surface form:
Present-day North Dakota
Present-day South Dakota ⓘ Present-day Wyoming ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Battle of the Little Bighorn
ⓘ
Great Sioux War of 1876 ⓘ Wounded Knee Massacre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
buffalo hunting
ⓘ
horse culture ⓘ resistance to U.S. expansion in the 19th century ⓘ warrior culture ⓘ |
| language | Lakota language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Siouan languages ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Lakota
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Lakȟóta
|
| notableLeader |
Crazy Horse
ⓘ
Red Cloud ⓘ Sitting Bull ⓘ Spotted Tail ⓘ |
| partOf |
Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires)
ⓘ
surface form:
Oceti Sakowin
Seven Council Fires ⓘ |
| religion |
Plains Indian religions
ⓘ
surface form:
Lakota spirituality
Sun Dance ⓘ
surface form:
Sun Dance ceremony
belief in Wakan Tanka ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | band-based society ⓘ |
| subgroupOf |
Sioux people
ⓘ
surface form:
Sioux
|
| traditionalEconomy | nomadic bison hunting ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | tipi ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
Great Plains
ⓘ
Great Plains ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Plains
Missouri River Basin ⓘ
surface form:
Upper Missouri River region
|
| traditionalTransport | horse ⓘ |
| treatyParty |
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851
ⓘ
surface form:
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 ⓘ
surface form:
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
|
| UNESCOStatus | endangered language (Lakota language) ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Lakota Description of subject: The Lakota are a Native American people of the Great Plains, known as one of the three main divisions of the Sioux and for their warrior culture and resistance to U.S. expansion in the 19th century.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.