Sinagua culture
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The Sinagua culture was a pre-Columbian Native American society of the U.S. Southwest known for its cliff dwellings, masonry pueblos, and sophisticated agricultural practices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sinagua culture canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2917728 — 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: Sinagua culture Context triple: [Verde Valley, hasIndigenousHomelandOf, Sinagua culture]
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Hohokam culture
The Hohokam culture was an ancient Native American civilization of the Sonoran Desert, renowned for its extensive irrigation canal systems and distinctive pottery long before European contact.
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B.
Mogollon culture
The Mogollon culture was an ancient Native American civilization of the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico known for its distinctive pottery, pit-house villages, and early adoption of agriculture.
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C.
Zapotec civilization
The Zapotec civilization was an influential pre-Columbian culture of southern Mesoamerica, centered in the Oaxaca Valley and noted for its early writing system, monumental architecture, and complex urban centers like Monte Albán.
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D.
Adena culture
The Adena culture was an early Native American mound-building society of the Early Woodland period in the Ohio Valley, known for its conical burial mounds, elaborate mortuary practices, and distinctive pottery and stone tools.
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E.
Pukara culture
The Pukara culture was an early highland Andean civilization centered around Lake Titicaca, known for its monumental architecture, distinctive polychrome ceramics, and role as a precursor to later cultures such as Tiwanaku.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sinagua culture Target entity description: The Sinagua culture was a pre-Columbian Native American society of the U.S. Southwest known for its cliff dwellings, masonry pueblos, and sophisticated agricultural practices.
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A.
Hohokam culture
The Hohokam culture was an ancient Native American civilization of the Sonoran Desert, renowned for its extensive irrigation canal systems and distinctive pottery long before European contact.
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B.
Mogollon culture
The Mogollon culture was an ancient Native American civilization of the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico known for its distinctive pottery, pit-house villages, and early adoption of agriculture.
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C.
Zapotec civilization
The Zapotec civilization was an influential pre-Columbian culture of southern Mesoamerica, centered in the Oaxaca Valley and noted for its early writing system, monumental architecture, and complex urban centers like Monte Albán.
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D.
Adena culture
The Adena culture was an early Native American mound-building society of the Early Woodland period in the Ohio Valley, known for its conical burial mounds, elaborate mortuary practices, and distinctive pottery and stone tools.
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E.
Pukara culture
The Pukara culture was an early highland Andean civilization centered around Lake Titicaca, known for its monumental architecture, distinctive polychrome ceramics, and role as a precursor to later cultures such as Tiwanaku.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (84)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American culture
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archaeological culture ⓘ pre-Columbian culture ⓘ |
| abandonmentPeriod | late 13th to early 15th century ⓘ |
| cultivatedCrop |
beans
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cotton ⓘ maize ⓘ squash ⓘ |
| engagedIn | long-distance trade ⓘ |
| environment |
semi-arid plateau
ⓘ
volcanic highlands ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalEvidence |
petroglyphs
ⓘ
pictographs ⓘ rock art ⓘ |
| hasCulturalCategory | Oasisamerica cultures ⓘ |
| hasMainRegion |
Flagstaff area
ⓘ
Mogollon Rim ⓘ San Francisco Peaks region ⓘ Verde Valley ⓘ Walnut Canyon National Monument ⓘ
surface form:
Walnut Canyon area
Wupatki National Monument ⓘ
surface form:
Wupatki area
|
| hasNameEtymology | Spanish word "sin agua" meaning "without water" ⓘ |
| hasSubsistence |
agriculture
ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ancestral Puebloan culture
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Hohokam culture ⓘ Mogollon culture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ball courts
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bean cultivation ⓘ check-dam irrigation systems ⓘ cliff dwellings ⓘ cotton cultivation ⓘ dry farming agriculture ⓘ irrigated agriculture ⓘ maize cultivation ⓘ masonry pueblos ⓘ platform mounds ⓘ pottery production ⓘ squash cultivation ⓘ stone masonry architecture ⓘ terraced fields ⓘ trade networks ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arizona
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southwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern United States
southwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Southwest
|
| majorSite |
Clemenceau ruins
ⓘ
Honanki ⓘ Montezuma Castle National Monument ⓘ Palatki ⓘ Tuzigoot National Monument ⓘ Walnut Canyon National Monument ⓘ Wupatki National Monument ⓘ |
| nameGivenBy | archaeologists ⓘ |
| nearbyLandmark |
San Francisco Peaks
ⓘ
Verde River ⓘ |
| notSelfDesignation | true ⓘ |
| possibleSuccessor |
Hopi people
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Western Apache ⓘ
surface form:
Western Apache groups
Yavapai people ⓘ |
| potteryStyle |
black-on-white pottery
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plain ware pottery ⓘ red ware pottery ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | National Park Service ⓘ |
| religiousFeature |
ceremonial plazas
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kiva-like structures ⓘ |
| studiedBy | archaeologists in Arizona ⓘ |
| timePeriod | c. 500 CE to c. 1425 CE ⓘ |
| timePeriodEnd | c. 1425 CE ⓘ |
| timePeriodStart | c. 500 CE ⓘ |
| tradedFor |
copper bells
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macaw feathers ⓘ marine shells ⓘ |
| tradedWith |
Ancestral Puebloans
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Hohokam culture ⓘ Mogollon culture ⓘ |
| usedBuildingMaterial |
adobe
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stone masonry ⓘ |
| usedBuildingType |
cliff dwelling
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multi-room pueblo ⓘ |
| usedWaterManagement |
check dams
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irrigation canals ⓘ reservoirs ⓘ |
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: Sinagua culture Description of subject: The Sinagua culture was a pre-Columbian Native American society of the U.S. Southwest known for its cliff dwellings, masonry pueblos, and sophisticated agricultural practices.
Referenced by (3)
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