Diaguita

E482156

ethnic group indigenous people

The Diaguita are an indigenous people of northwestern Argentina and northern Chile, historically known for their advanced agriculture, distinctive ceramics, and resistance to Inca and Spanish expansion.

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Label	Occurrences
Diaguita canonical	3

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ethnic group ⓘ indigenous people ⓘ
agriculturalTechnique	terraced fields on mountain slopes ⓘ
architecture	stone settlements ⓘ
artStyle	polychrome ceramics ⓘ zoomorphic motifs ⓘ
burialPractice	tumulus graves ⓘ
colonialPolicy	encomienda system imposed ⓘ
conflict	Calchaquí Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	South America ⓘ
country	Argentina ⓘ Chile ⓘ
craft	pottery ⓘ stonework ⓘ textile production ⓘ
culture	Andean culture ⓘ
economy	llama herding ⓘ maize cultivation ⓘ potato cultivation ⓘ quinoa cultivation ⓘ
heritageStatus	recognized indigenous people in Argentina ⓘ recognized indigenous people in Chile ⓘ
historicalRegion	Atacama region NERFINISHED ⓘ Norte Chico (Chile) NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ
irrigation	canal systems for agriculture ⓘ
knownFor	advanced agriculture ⓘ distinctive ceramics ⓘ geometric ceramic designs ⓘ irrigation systems ⓘ resistance to Inca expansion ⓘ resistance to Spanish conquest ⓘ terrace farming ⓘ
languageFamily	Cacán (extinct language) NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainRegion	northern Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ
opponent	Inca Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
politicalOrganization	chiefdoms ⓘ village-based communities ⓘ
religion	Andean polytheism ⓘ
subgroup	Calchaquí NERFINISHED ⓘ Catamarca Diaguita NERFINISHED ⓘ Chilean Diaguita NERFINISHED ⓘ Famatina NERFINISHED ⓘ Hualfín NERFINISHED ⓘ Yocavil NERFINISHED ⓘ
timePeriod	Inca period NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish colonial period ⓘ pre-Columbian era ⓘ

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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: Diaguita
Description of subject: The Diaguita are an indigenous people of northwestern Argentina and northern Chile, historically known for their advanced agriculture, distinctive ceramics, and resistance to Inca and Spanish expansion.

Referenced by (3)

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

Atacameño → relatedGroups → Diaguita ⓘ

indigenous peoples of Chile → includeEthnicGroup → Diaguita ⓘ

History of Chile → hasPreColumbianCulture → Diaguita ⓘ