Wappo

E417252

Native American people indigenous people

The Wappo are a Native American people indigenous to northern California, historically known for their skilled basketry and distinct language.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Wappo canonical	3

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American people ⓘ indigenous people ⓘ
affectedBy	American settlement of California ⓘ Mexican period in California ⓘ Spanish colonization of California ⓘ
ceremonialPractice	dance ceremonies ⓘ healing rituals ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
culturalArea	California cultural area ⓘ
culturalRevitalization	basketry preservation efforts ⓘ language documentation efforts ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
hasAutonym	various local names in Wappo language ⓘ
historicalPopulationTrend	severe decline after European contact ⓘ
indigenousTo	Lake County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Napa Valley ⓘ Sonoma County NERFINISHED ⓘ Yolo County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern California ⓘ surface form: northern California
knownFor	basketry ⓘ stone tools ⓘ
language	Wappo language ⓘ
languageFamily	Yukian languages ⓘ
laterReligion	Protestantism ⓘ Roman Catholicism ⓘ
nameGivenBy	Spanish colonizers ⓘ
neighboringGroup	Coast Miwok NERFINISHED ⓘ Patwin ⓘ Pomo ONNED1 ⓘ
presentDayDescendants	Wappo people in California ⓘ
recognizedBy	state and local entities ⓘ
region	North Coast Ranges ⓘ
religion	Kuksu religion ⓘ traditional Native American religion ⓘ
traditionalCraft	coiled baskets ⓘ twined baskets ⓘ
traditionalEconomy	trade with neighboring tribes ⓘ
traditionalHousing	semi-subterranean structures ⓘ thatched houses ⓘ
traditionalLanguageStatus	extinct as a first language ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence	fishing ⓘ gathering acorns ⓘ gathering seeds and roots ⓘ hunting ⓘ
traditionalTerritoryFeature	Napa River ⓘ Russian River NERFINISHED ⓘ

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: Wappo
Description of subject: The Wappo are a Native American people indigenous to northern California, historically known for their skilled basketry and distinct language.

Referenced by (3)

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

Pomo → neighboringPeople → Wappo ⓘ

Eastern Pomo → hasNeighboringLanguage → Wappo ⓘ

Northern Pomo → hasNeighboringLanguage → Wappo ⓘ