Miami tribe
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The Miami tribe is a Native American people originally from the Great Lakes region, particularly present-day Indiana and surrounding areas, known for their central role in resistance to U.S. expansion in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miami tribe canonical | 9 |
| Miami people (Algonquian-speaking tribe of the Midwest) | 1 |
| historic Miami Nation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T432403 — 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: Miami tribe Context triple: [Northwest Indian War, opponent, Miami tribe]
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A.
Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people originally from Florida, known for their resistance to U.S. expansion and forced relocation during the 19th century.
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B.
Miami Floridians
The Miami Floridians were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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C.
Hualapai people
The Hualapai people are a Native American tribe traditionally inhabiting northwestern Arizona, known for their distinct language, culture, and stewardship of lands along the Grand Canyon.
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D.
Mohegan tribe
The Mohegan tribe is a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands, historically based in what is now Connecticut and known for their complex alliances and conflicts with neighboring tribes and European colonists.
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E.
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Massachusetts, known as one of the historic Wampanoag communities indigenous to the region around Cape Cod.
- 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: Miami tribe Target entity description: The Miami tribe is a Native American people originally from the Great Lakes region, particularly present-day Indiana and surrounding areas, known for their central role in resistance to U.S. expansion in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people originally from Florida, known for their resistance to U.S. expansion and forced relocation during the 19th century.
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B.
Miami Floridians
The Miami Floridians were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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C.
Hualapai people
The Hualapai people are a Native American tribe traditionally inhabiting northwestern Arizona, known for their distinct language, culture, and stewardship of lands along the Grand Canyon.
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D.
Mohegan tribe
The Mohegan tribe is a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands, historically based in what is now Connecticut and known for their complex alliances and conflicts with neighboring tribes and European colonists.
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E.
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Massachusetts, known as one of the historic Wampanoag communities indigenous to the region around Cape Cod.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people of North America
ⓘ
Native American tribe ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Myaamia
ⓘ
Myaamia ⓘ
surface form:
Myaamia people
|
| associatedWithPlace |
Maumee River
ⓘ
Wabash River ⓘ |
| clanSystem | yes ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Eastern Woodlands ⓘ |
| culturalRevitalization |
Miami language revitalization programs
ⓘ
educational partnerships with universities ⓘ |
| currentPopulationRegion |
Indiana
ⓘ
Kansas ⓘ Ohio ⓘ Oklahoma ⓘ other Midwestern states ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| experienced |
forced removals in the 19th century
ⓘ
land cessions through treaties ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
central role in resistance to U.S. expansion in the early 19th century
ⓘ
central role in resistance to U.S. expansion in the late 18th century ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Algonquian languages ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | possibly derived from an Algonquian term related to "downstream people" ⓘ |
| notableLeader |
Jean Baptiste Richardville
ⓘ
Little Turtle ⓘ |
| originalRegion |
Great Lakes region
ⓘ
present-day Illinois ⓘ present-day Indiana ⓘ present-day Michigan ⓘ present-day Ohio ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Fallen Timbers
ⓘ
Battle of the Wabash ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of the Wabash (St. Clair's Defeat)
Northwest Indian War ⓘ |
| recognizedTribalGovernment |
Miami Nation of Indiana (unrecognized)
ⓘ
surface form:
Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana (state-recognized)
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| signedTreaty |
Treaty of Greenville
ⓘ
surface form:
Treaty of Greenville (1795)
Treaty of St. Marys (1818) ⓘ |
| timeDepth | pre-contact Indigenous society in the Great Lakes region ⓘ |
| traditionalDwellings |
longhouses
ⓘ
wigwams ⓘ |
| traditionalLanguage | Miami-Illinois language ⓘ |
| traditionalReligion |
animism
ⓘ
shamanism ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ maize agriculture ⓘ |
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: Miami tribe Description of subject: The Miami tribe is a Native American people originally from the Great Lakes region, particularly present-day Indiana and surrounding areas, known for their central role in resistance to U.S. expansion in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Miami people (Algonquian-speaking tribe of the Midwest)
subject surface form:
Miami Nation of Indiana
this entity surface form:
historic Miami Nation