Kokama
E924714
Kokama are an Indigenous people of the western Amazon, primarily inhabiting regions of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia, known for their distinct Kokama language and riverine culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kokama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11424482 — 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: Kokama Context triple: [Cocama-Cocamilla, ethnonym, Kokama]
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A.
Comala
Comala is the haunting, ghostly Mexican town that serves as the central setting of Juan Rulfo’s novel "Pedro Páramo."
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B.
Kaska
Kaska is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Kaska Dena people of northern Canada, primarily in the Yukon and northern British Columbia.
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C.
Satakopa
Satakopa is the revered honorific name of Nammalvar, one of the most important Tamil Vaishnavite poet-saints of the Alvar tradition.
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D.
Ye’kuana
The Ye’kuana are an Indigenous people of the Amazonian region of Venezuela and Brazil, known for their riverine village life, intricate basketry, and rich oral traditions.
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E.
Kasada
Kasada is a traditional Hindu ritual and festival observed by the Tenggerese people of East Java, Indonesia, involving offerings cast into the crater of Mount Bromo.
- 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: Kokama Target entity description: Kokama are an Indigenous people of the western Amazon, primarily inhabiting regions of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia, known for their distinct Kokama language and riverine culture.
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A.
Comala
Comala is the haunting, ghostly Mexican town that serves as the central setting of Juan Rulfo’s novel "Pedro Páramo."
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B.
Kaska
Kaska is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Kaska Dena people of northern Canada, primarily in the Yukon and northern British Columbia.
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C.
Satakopa
Satakopa is the revered honorific name of Nammalvar, one of the most important Tamil Vaishnavite poet-saints of the Alvar tradition.
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D.
Ye’kuana
The Ye’kuana are an Indigenous people of the Amazonian region of Venezuela and Brazil, known for their riverine village life, intricate basketry, and rich oral traditions.
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E.
Kasada
Kasada is a traditional Hindu ritual and festival observed by the Tenggerese people of East Java, Indonesia, involving offerings cast into the crater of Mount Bromo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous language of the Americas
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Indigenous people ⓘ ethnic group ⓘ language ⓘ |
| affectedBy | rubber boom ⓘ |
| associatedRiver |
Amazon River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Huallaga River NERFINISHED ⓘ Marañón River NERFINISHED ⓘ Ucayali River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectiveRightsIssue |
cultural preservation
ⓘ
land rights ⓘ language revitalization ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cultureType | riverine culture ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
handicrafts
ⓘ
river transport ⓘ small-scale trade ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| ethnonymVariant |
Cocama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cocamilla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAutonym | Kokama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasExonym |
Cocama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cocamilla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContactWith |
Portuguese colonists
ⓘ
Spanish colonists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inhabits | western Amazon ⓘ |
| language | Kokama language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tupi–Guarani languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Indigenous peoples of the Amazon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Amazonas Department (Colombia)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Amazonas state (Brazil) NERFINISHED ⓘ Loreto Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Peruvian state as Indigenous people ⓘ |
| region | western Amazon ⓘ |
| religion |
syncretic Catholicism
ⓘ
traditional animist beliefs ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | stilt houses ⓘ |
| traditionalSubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering ⓘ hunting ⓘ small-scale agriculture ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Latin script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kokama Description of subject: Kokama are an Indigenous people of the western Amazon, primarily inhabiting regions of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia, known for their distinct Kokama language and riverine culture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.