Tojolabal people
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The Tojolabal people are an indigenous Maya group of southeastern Mexico known for their distinct Tojolabal language, traditional agrarian lifestyle, and rich communal cultural practices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tojolabal people canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6774301 — 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: Tojolabal people Context triple: [Tojolabal, ethnicGroup, Tojolabal people]
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Ngaju people
The Ngaju people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of central Kalimantan, Borneo, known for their rich river-based culture, traditional longhouses, and elaborate secondary burial rituals.
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B.
Banggai people
The Banggai people are an indigenous ethnic group of Indonesia known for their distinct Austronesian language, maritime culture, and traditional kingdoms in the Banggai Islands region.
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C.
Pakpak people
The Pakpak people are an indigenous ethnic group from the highland regions of North Sumatra, Indonesia, with their own distinct culture, traditions, and social customs.
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D.
Kayah people
The Kayah people are an ethnic minority from eastern Myanmar, closely related to the broader Karen ethnic group, with their own distinct language, culture, and traditions.
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E.
Tolai people
The Tolai people are an indigenous ethnic group of eastern New Britain in Papua New Guinea, known for their matrilineal society, vibrant shell-money economy, and rich ceremonial traditions.
- 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: Tojolabal people Target entity description: The Tojolabal people are an indigenous Maya group of southeastern Mexico known for their distinct Tojolabal language, traditional agrarian lifestyle, and rich communal cultural practices.
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A.
Ngaju people
The Ngaju people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of central Kalimantan, Borneo, known for their rich river-based culture, traditional longhouses, and elaborate secondary burial rituals.
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B.
Banggai people
The Banggai people are an indigenous ethnic group of Indonesia known for their distinct Austronesian language, maritime culture, and traditional kingdoms in the Banggai Islands region.
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C.
Pakpak people
The Pakpak people are an indigenous ethnic group from the highland regions of North Sumatra, Indonesia, with their own distinct culture, traditions, and social customs.
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D.
Kayah people
The Kayah people are an ethnic minority from eastern Myanmar, closely related to the broader Karen ethnic group, with their own distinct language, culture, and traditions.
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E.
Tolai people
The Tolai people are an indigenous ethnic group of eastern New Britain in Papua New Guinea, known for their matrilineal society, vibrant shell-money economy, and rich ceremonial traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maya people
ⓘ
indigenous people ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| engagedIn |
local handicrafts production
ⓘ
small-scale livestock raising ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | customary law practices ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractice |
collective work parties
ⓘ
communal decision-making ⓘ ritual celebrations tied to agricultural cycle ⓘ |
| hasCulturalValue |
collectivism
ⓘ
communal land stewardship ⓘ reciprocity in labor exchange ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCategory | rural population ⓘ |
| hasFestivity | Catholic feast day celebrations with Maya elements ⓘ |
| hasKnowledgeSystem | traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| hasOralTradition |
legends
ⓘ
myths ⓘ ritual narratives ⓘ |
| indigenousTo |
Lacandon Jungle region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Chiapas highlands ⓘ |
| language | Tojolabal language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
indigenous language of Mexico
ⓘ
threatened language ⓘ |
| mainCrops |
beans
ⓘ
maize ⓘ squash ⓘ |
| mainEconomicActivity | subsistence agriculture ⓘ |
| partOf | Maya civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationGroup | minority in Mexico ⓘ |
| primaryLocation | Chiapas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | indigenous people of Mexico ⓘ |
| region | southeastern Mexico ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Chʼol people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tzeltal people NERFINISHED ⓘ Tzotzil people NERFINISHED ⓘ other Maya peoples ⓘ |
| religion |
Maya traditional religion
ⓘ
Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | communal ⓘ |
| subjectTo | Mexican federal indigenous policies ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | rural village settlements ⓘ |
| traditionalLifestyle | agrarian ⓘ |
| uses | ejido land tenure system ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
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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: Tojolabal people Description of subject: The Tojolabal people are an indigenous Maya group of southeastern Mexico known for their distinct Tojolabal language, traditional agrarian lifestyle, and rich communal cultural practices.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.