Tequesta
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The Tequesta were a Native American people who inhabited the southeastern coast of Florida, particularly around present-day Miami and the Florida Keys, prior to European contact.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tequesta canonical | 5 |
| Tequesta people | 3 |
| Tequesta culture area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T616069 — 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: Tequesta Context triple: [Mayaimi people, neighboringGroup, Tequesta]
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A.
Calusa
The Calusa were a powerful Indigenous people of southwest Florida known for their complex chiefdom, maritime culture, and resistance to European colonization.
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B.
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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C.
Miami tribe
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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D.
Coconut Grove
Coconut Grove is a historic, bohemian waterfront neighborhood in Miami known for its lush tropical scenery, artsy vibe, and lively dining and nightlife.
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E.
Patuxet
Patuxet was a 17th-century Indigenous Wampanoag village located at the site of present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, known for its early contact with English colonists and devastation by epidemic disease.
- 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: Tequesta Target entity description: The Tequesta were a Native American people who inhabited the southeastern coast of Florida, particularly around present-day Miami and the Florida Keys, prior to European contact.
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A.
Calusa
The Calusa were a powerful Indigenous people of southwest Florida known for their complex chiefdom, maritime culture, and resistance to European colonization.
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B.
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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C.
Miami tribe
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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D.
Coconut Grove
Coconut Grove is a historic, bohemian waterfront neighborhood in Miami known for its lush tropical scenery, artsy vibe, and lively dining and nightlife.
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E.
Patuxet
Patuxet was a 17th-century Indigenous Wampanoag village located at the site of present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, known for its early contact with English colonists and devastation by epidemic disease.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American people
ⓘ
indigenous people of Florida ⓘ |
| affectedBy |
European diseases
ⓘ
missionization by Spanish ⓘ slave raids ⓘ |
| archaeologicalSite |
Key Biscayne sites
ⓘ
Miami Circle ⓘ sites along the Miami River ⓘ |
| burialPractice |
mound burials
ⓘ
secondary burials (defleshed bones) ⓘ |
| contactWith | Spanish explorers ⓘ |
| cultureArea | Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf | southeastern Florida ⓘ |
| eventualFate | extinction as a distinct people ⓘ |
| firstEuropeanContactCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| housingType | thatched structures ⓘ |
| inhabitedRegion |
Biscayne Bay
ⓘ
Miami River ⓘ
surface form:
Miami River area
northern Florida Keys ⓘ present-day Miami area ⓘ southeastern coast of Florida ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coastal maritime adaptation
ⓘ
use of marine resources ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Muskogean languages (uncertain) ⓘ |
| mainVillageLocation | mouth of the Miami River ⓘ |
| materialCulture |
bone tools
ⓘ
burial mounds ⓘ shell mounds ⓘ shell tools ⓘ wooden tools ⓘ |
| neighboringPeople |
Ais
ⓘ
Calusa ⓘ Jaega ⓘ Mayaimi ⓘ |
| populationTrend | decline after European contact ⓘ |
| primarySubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| regionNowPartOf |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Florida ⓘ
surface form:
state of Florida
|
| religion | animism ⓘ |
| someMembersMergedWith | other Florida indigenous groups ⓘ |
| someMembersRelocatedTo | Cuba ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
pre-Columbian era
ⓘ
prior to European contact ⓘ |
| transportation | dugout canoes ⓘ |
| usedAgriculture | limited or no 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: Tequesta Description of subject: The Tequesta were a Native American people who inhabited the southeastern coast of Florida, particularly around present-day Miami and the Florida Keys, prior to European contact.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tequesta people
this entity surface form:
Tequesta culture area
this entity surface form:
Tequesta people
this entity surface form:
Tequesta people