Goshute
E304779
Central Numic language
Indian reservation
Indigenous people of the Great Basin
Native American people
Shoshonean language
conflict
federally recognized tribe
The Goshute are a Native American people traditionally inhabiting areas of what are now western Utah and eastern Nevada, known for their Shoshonean language and adaptation to the Great Basin environment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goshute canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2842566 — 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: Goshute Context triple: [Paiute, relatedEthnicGroup, Goshute]
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A.
McDermitt
McDermitt is a small unincorporated community and former mining town that straddles the Nevada–Oregon border in the northern Great Basin region.
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B.
Modoc
The Modoc are a Native American people traditionally from the area around the California–Oregon border, known for their resistance during the 19th-century Modoc War.
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C.
Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
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D.
San Rafael Swell
The San Rafael Swell is a large, rugged geologic uplift in central Utah known for its dramatic canyons, mesas, and sandstone formations popular with hikers and outdoor enthusiasts.
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E.
Stansbury
Stansbury is a coastal town on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula known for its fishing, beaches, and holiday tourism.
- 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: Goshute Target entity description: The Goshute are a Native American people traditionally inhabiting areas of what are now western Utah and eastern Nevada, known for their Shoshonean language and adaptation to the Great Basin environment.
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A.
McDermitt
McDermitt is a small unincorporated community and former mining town that straddles the Nevada–Oregon border in the northern Great Basin region.
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B.
Modoc
The Modoc are a Native American people traditionally from the area around the California–Oregon border, known for their resistance during the 19th-century Modoc War.
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C.
Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
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D.
San Rafael Swell
The San Rafael Swell is a large, rugged geologic uplift in central Utah known for its dramatic canyons, mesas, and sandstone formations popular with hikers and outdoor enthusiasts.
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E.
Stansbury
Stansbury is a coastal town on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula known for its fishing, beaches, and holiday tourism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Goshute Description of subject: The Goshute are a Native American people traditionally inhabiting areas of what are now western Utah and eastern Nevada, known for their Shoshonean language and adaptation to the Great Basin environment.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation
subject surface form:
Goshute War