Maia
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Maia are powerful immortal spirits in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium who serve the Valar and often act as guides or guardians to the peoples of Middle-earth.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maia canonical | 35 |
| Maia (in incarnate form as a wizard) | 1 |
| MaiaOfFire | 1 |
| Maiar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2138034 — 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.
Target entity: Maia Context triple: [Gandalf, race, Maia]
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Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
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Timothea
Timothea is a feminine given name derived from the name Timothy, often interpreted to mean "honoring God."
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Corinna
Corinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Boeotia, renowned for her choral poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.
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Laleia
Laleia is a town in northern Timor-Leste known as the birthplace of independence leader and former president Xanana Gusmão.
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Philyra
Philyra is an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the centaur Chiron.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Maia Target entity description: Maia are powerful immortal spirits in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium who serve the Valar and often act as guides or guardians to the peoples of Middle-earth.
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A.
Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
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B.
Timothea
Timothea is a feminine given name derived from the name Timothy, often interpreted to mean "honoring God."
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C.
Corinna
Corinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Boeotia, renowned for her choral poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.
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D.
Laleia
Laleia is a town in northern Timor-Leste known as the birthplace of independence leader and former president Xanana Gusmão.
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E.
Philyra
Philyra is an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the centaur Chiron.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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.
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.
Subject: Maia Description of subject: Maia are powerful immortal spirits in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium who serve the Valar and often act as guides or guardians to the peoples of Middle-earth.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.