Maya
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Maya is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often associated with meanings such as "illusion" in Sanskrit, "water" in Hebrew, and "good mother" in Greek.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maya canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1743340 — 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: Maya Context triple: [Maya Widmaier-Picasso, givenName, Maya]
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A.
Maya
The Maya were an advanced Mesoamerican civilization known for their sophisticated writing system, monumental architecture, mathematics, and astronomy.
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B.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
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C.
Itzamna
Itzamna is a major Maya creator god associated with the sky, wisdom, writing, and rulership in ancient Mesoamerican religion.
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D.
Waset
Waset was the ancient Egyptian city known in Greek as Thebes, a major religious and political center along the Nile.
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E.
Gukumatz
Gukumatz is a feathered serpent deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya, closely associated with creation, wind, and wisdom and identified with the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl.
- 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: Maya Target entity description: Maya is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often associated with meanings such as "illusion" in Sanskrit, "water" in Hebrew, and "good mother" in Greek.
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A.
Maya
The Maya were an advanced Mesoamerican civilization known for their sophisticated writing system, monumental architecture, mathematics, and astronomy.
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B.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
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C.
Itzamna
Itzamna is a major Maya creator god associated with the sky, wisdom, writing, and rulership in ancient Mesoamerican religion.
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D.
Waset
Waset was the ancient Egyptian city known in Greek as Thebes, a major religious and political center along the Nile.
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E.
Gukumatz
Gukumatz is a feathered serpent deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya, closely associated with creation, wind, and wisdom and identified with the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
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given name ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
illusion in Hindu philosophy
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motherhood ⓘ water ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin |
Greek elements meaning "good" and "mother"
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Hebrew word related to "mayim" ⓘ Sanskrit word "Māyā" ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | feminine ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
good mother
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illusion ⓘ water ⓘ |
| hasMeaningInGreek | good mother ⓘ |
| hasMeaningInHebrew | water ⓘ |
| hasMeaningInSanskrit | illusion ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
Maia
ⓘ
Maja ⓘ Meya ⓘ Mýa ⓘ
surface form:
Mya
|
| hasVariant |
Maia
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Maja ⓘ Meya ⓘ Mya ⓘ |
| isShortFormOf |
Amalia
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Margarita ⓘ Maria ⓘ Mariam ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
multicultural name
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mythological name ⓘ theophoric name ⓘ |
| nameLength | 4 letters ⓘ |
| nameSyllables | 2 syllables ⓘ |
| nameType | first name ⓘ |
| nameUsage | personal name ⓘ |
| popularityRegion |
Europe
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India ⓘ Israel ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| scriptForm | माया ⓘ |
| scriptLanguage |
Devanagari script
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surface form:
Devanagari
|
| usedByReligion |
Christian communities
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Hindu communities ⓘ Jewish communities ⓘ |
| usedInCulture |
Greek culture
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Hebrew culture ⓘ Indian culture ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Greek
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Hebrew ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ |
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: Maya Description of subject: Maya is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often associated with meanings such as "illusion" in Sanskrit, "water" in Hebrew, and "good mother" in Greek.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Zero Dark Thirty
subject surface form:
Merit
subject surface form:
Maya Soetoro-Ng