Tepehuan people
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The Tepehuan people are an indigenous group of northern Mexico known for their distinct Uto-Aztecan language varieties, traditional agriculture, and resilient cultural practices in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tepehuán people | 7 |
| Tepehuan people canonical | 3 |
| Guarijío people | 2 |
| Pima Bajo people | 1 |
| Southern Tepehuán people | 1 |
| Wixárika people | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2957421 — 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: Tepehuan people Context triple: [indigenous peoples of Mexico, majorEthnicGroup, Tepehuan people]
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A.
Moxeño people
The Moxeño people are an indigenous Arawakan-speaking group of Bolivia known for their traditional communal lifestyles, rich ceremonial music and dance, and long history in the lowland regions of the country.
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B.
Zoque people
The Zoque people are an Indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting parts of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Tabasco, known for their Zoquean languages and rich traditions in agriculture, crafts, and communal festivals.
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C.
Amuzgo people
The Amuzgo people are an indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting the border region of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Oto-Manguean language and rich textile-weaving traditions.
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D.
Yaqui people
The Yaqui people are an Indigenous group native to the Sonoran Desert region of northern Mexico and southern Arizona, known for their rich ceremonial traditions, resistance to colonization, and distinctive language and culture.
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E.
Cochimí people
The Cochimí people are an Indigenous group native to the central Baja California peninsula in Mexico, historically known for their hunter-gatherer lifestyle and now largely assimilated, with their original language considered extinct.
- 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: Tepehuan people Target entity description: The Tepehuan people are an indigenous group of northern Mexico known for their distinct Uto-Aztecan language varieties, traditional agriculture, and resilient cultural practices in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
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A.
Moxeño people
The Moxeño people are an indigenous Arawakan-speaking group of Bolivia known for their traditional communal lifestyles, rich ceremonial music and dance, and long history in the lowland regions of the country.
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B.
Zoque people
The Zoque people are an Indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting parts of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Tabasco, known for their Zoquean languages and rich traditions in agriculture, crafts, and communal festivals.
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C.
Amuzgo people
The Amuzgo people are an indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting the border region of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Oto-Manguean language and rich textile-weaving traditions.
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D.
Yaqui people
The Yaqui people are an Indigenous group native to the Sonoran Desert region of northern Mexico and southern Arizona, known for their rich ceremonial traditions, resistance to colonization, and distinctive language and culture.
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E.
Cochimí people
The Cochimí people are an Indigenous group native to the central Baja California peninsula in Mexico, historically known for their hunter-gatherer lifestyle and now largely assimilated, with their original language considered extinct.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ethnic group
ⓘ
indigenous people ⓘ |
| affectedBy | Spanish colonization of the Americas ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
Chihuahua
ⓘ
Durango ⓘ Jalisco ⓘ Nayarit ⓘ |
| culturalPractice |
ritual music and dance
ⓘ
syncretic Catholic-indigenous ceremonies ⓘ traditional communal rituals ⓘ use of traditional medicine ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Tepehuan ⓘ |
| ethnographicRegion | Gran Nayar ⓘ |
| governmentRecognition | recognized indigenous people of Mexico ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
Tepehuán Revolt of the early 17th century
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surface form:
Tepehuán Revolt
|
| historicalPeriod | Spanish colonial period in Mexico ⓘ |
| language |
Northern Tepehuán language
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Tepehuan language
Southern Tepehuán language ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Tepehuan language
Tepehuan language varieties ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan languages
|
| languageStatus | endangered ⓘ |
| mountainRange | Sierra Madre Occidental ⓘ |
| populationTrend | minority within Mexico ⓘ |
| region | northern Mexico ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Cora people
ⓘ
Huichol ⓘ
surface form:
Huichol people
Mexicanero ⓘ
surface form:
Mexicanero people
Tarahumara people ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
indigenous Mesoamerican religion ⓘ |
| struggle |
cultural survival
ⓘ
defense of land rights ⓘ |
| subsistenceType | subsistence agriculture ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
bean cultivation ⓘ craft production ⓘ gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ livestock raising ⓘ maize cultivation ⓘ squash cultivation ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing |
adobe houses
ⓘ
wooden houses ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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surface form:
Latin script
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tepehuan people Description of subject: The Tepehuan people are an indigenous group of northern Mexico known for their distinct Uto-Aztecan language varieties, traditional agriculture, and resilient cultural practices in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Guarijío people
this entity surface form:
Tepehuán people
this entity surface form:
Tepehuán people
this entity surface form:
Southern Tepehuán people
this entity surface form:
Tepehuán people
this entity surface form:
Tepehuán people
this entity surface form:
Pima Bajo people
this entity surface form:
Tepehuán people
this entity surface form:
Tepehuán people
this entity surface form:
Tepehuán people