Ghost Dance religious movement

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Native American religious movement millenarian movement religious movement revitalization movement

The Ghost Dance religious movement was a late 19th-century Native American spiritual revival that prophesied the restoration of indigenous lands and ways of life, inspiring widespread hope and resistance among Plains tribes.

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Label	Occurrences
Ghost Dance movement	3
Ghost Dance (19th century)	1
Ghost Dance religion	1
Ghost Dance religious movement canonical	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2268550 — 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: Ghost Dance religious movement
Context triple: [Wounded Knee Massacre, hasPrecededBy, Ghost Dance religious movement]

A. Red Power movement
The Red Power movement was a Native American civil rights and self-determination movement of the 1960s and 1970s that used activism and protest to demand sovereignty, cultural pride, and the honoring of treaty rights.
B. Sun Dance
The Sun Dance is a central Plains Indigenous ceremonial ritual involving days of dancing, fasting, prayer, and often physical sacrifice to seek spiritual renewal and communal harmony.
C. Wounded Knee Massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre was an 1890 slaughter of hundreds of Lakota Sioux by the U.S. Army in South Dakota, marking one of the final and most tragic episodes of armed conflict between Native Americans and the United States.
D. Native American Church
The Native American Church is a syncretic religious movement among various Indigenous peoples of North America that combines traditional Native spiritual practices with elements of Christianity, often centered around the ceremonial use of peyote.
E. Red Bird uprising
The Red Bird uprising was a brief 1827 Native American resistance led by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) leader Red Bird against United States encroachment in what is now Wisconsin.
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: Ghost Dance religious movement
Target entity description: The Ghost Dance religious movement was a late 19th-century Native American spiritual revival that prophesied the restoration of indigenous lands and ways of life, inspiring widespread hope and resistance among Plains tribes.

A. Red Power movement
The Red Power movement was a Native American civil rights and self-determination movement of the 1960s and 1970s that used activism and protest to demand sovereignty, cultural pride, and the honoring of treaty rights.
B. Sun Dance
The Sun Dance is a central Plains Indigenous ceremonial ritual involving days of dancing, fasting, prayer, and often physical sacrifice to seek spiritual renewal and communal harmony.
C. Wounded Knee Massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre was an 1890 slaughter of hundreds of Lakota Sioux by the U.S. Army in South Dakota, marking one of the final and most tragic episodes of armed conflict between Native Americans and the United States.
D. Native American Church
The Native American Church is a syncretic religious movement among various Indigenous peoples of North America that combines traditional Native spiritual practices with elements of Christianity, often centered around the ceremonial use of peyote.
E. Red Bird uprising
The Red Bird uprising was a brief 1827 Native American resistance led by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) leader Red Bird against United States encroachment in what is now Wisconsin.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American religious movement ⓘ millenarian movement ⓘ religious movement ⓘ revitalization movement ⓘ
associatedWithDate	1890 ⓘ
associatedWithEvent	Wounded Knee Massacre ⓘ
coreBelief	anticipated disappearance of white settlers ⓘ prophecy of restoration of indigenous lands ⓘ prophecy of return of the buffalo ⓘ renewal of traditional Native American ways of life ⓘ
corePractice	circle dance ⓘ communal prayer ⓘ ritual singing ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
foundedBy	Wovoka ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Ghost Dance religious movement ⓘ surface form: Ghost Dance religion Spirit Dance ⓘ
hasDoctrine	nonviolence as taught by Wovoka ⓘ
hasEffect	encouraged cultural resistance to assimilation policies ⓘ inspired hope among Native American communities ⓘ
hasInfluenced	Arapaho ⓘ Cheyenne ⓘ Sioux people ⓘ surface form: Lakota Sioux Northern Paiute ⓘ Plains tribes ⓘ Shoshone ⓘ
hasMainName	Ghost Dance War ⓘ surface form: Ghost Dance
hasTheme	apocalyptic expectation ⓘ cultural revival ⓘ restoration of sovereignty ⓘ spiritual resistance to colonization ⓘ
historicalContext	period of intense U.S. expansion into Native lands ⓘ reservation era ⓘ
inception	1889 ⓘ
opposedBy	Bureau of Indian Affairs ⓘ surface form: U.S. Indian agents United States Army ⓘ
perceivedAs	threat by United States authorities ⓘ
region	Old West ⓘ surface form: American West Great Plains ⓘ
relatedTo	United States–Native American wars ⓘ surface form: Native American resistance movements millenarianism ⓘ prophetic movements ⓘ
religiousTradition	Native American religion ⓘ indigenous religion of North America ⓘ
startTime	late 19th century ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wounded Knee Massacre → hasPrecededBy → Ghost Dance religious movement ⓘ

Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin → ceremony → Ghost Dance religious movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ghost Dance (19th century)

Big Foot → movement → Ghost Dance religious movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ghost Dance movement

Ghost Dance religious movement → hasAlternativeName → Ghost Dance religious movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ghost Dance religion

killing of Sitting Bull → hasContext → Ghost Dance religious movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ghost Dance movement

James Mooney → studied → Ghost Dance religious movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ghost Dance movement

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