Māori people
E312475
The Māori people are the indigenous Polynesian inhabitants of New Zealand, known for their rich cultural traditions, language, and significant influence on the nation's identity.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Māori people canonical | 11 |
| Māori iwi | 2 |
| Maori | 1 |
| Māori people of New Zealand | 1 |
| Māori women | 1 |
| iTaukei | 1 |
| tangata whenua | 1 |
| tangata whenua of New Zealand | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2946712 — 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: Māori people Context triple: [HMS Maori, namedAfter, Māori people]
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A.
Moriori
The Moriori are an Indigenous Polynesian people of the Chatham Islands, known for their pacifist culture and distinct traditions separate from mainland Māori.
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B.
Runga people
The Runga people are an ethnic group of Central Africa, primarily in Chad and the Central African Republic, known for their distinct culture and use of a Maban language.
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C.
Ngāi Tahu iwi
Ngāi Tahu iwi is a major Māori tribe of New Zealand’s South Island, known for its extensive ancestral lands, rich cultural heritage, and significant role in contemporary Treaty of Waitangi settlements.
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D.
Pākehā
Pākehā is a Māori term commonly used in New Zealand to refer to people of European, especially British, descent living in the country.
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E.
Cook Islands Māori New Zealanders
Cook Islands Māori New Zealanders are people of Cook Islands Māori descent living in New Zealand, maintaining distinct Polynesian cultural traditions, language, and community ties.
- 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: Māori people Target entity description: The Māori people are the indigenous Polynesian inhabitants of New Zealand, known for their rich cultural traditions, language, and significant influence on the nation's identity.
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A.
Moriori
The Moriori are an Indigenous Polynesian people of the Chatham Islands, known for their pacifist culture and distinct traditions separate from mainland Māori.
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B.
Runga people
The Runga people are an ethnic group of Central Africa, primarily in Chad and the Central African Republic, known for their distinct culture and use of a Maban language.
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C.
Ngāi Tahu iwi
Ngāi Tahu iwi is a major Māori tribe of New Zealand’s South Island, known for its extensive ancestral lands, rich cultural heritage, and significant role in contemporary Treaty of Waitangi settlements.
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D.
Pākehā
Pākehā is a Māori term commonly used in New Zealand to refer to people of European, especially British, descent living in the country.
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E.
Cook Islands Māori New Zealanders
Cook Islands Māori New Zealanders are people of Cook Islands Māori descent living in New Zealand, maintaining distinct Polynesian cultural traditions, language, and community ties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
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: Māori people Description of subject: The Māori people are the indigenous Polynesian inhabitants of New Zealand, known for their rich cultural traditions, language, and significant influence on the nation's identity.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
iTaukei
subject surface form:
One Tree Hill obelisk
this entity surface form:
Māori people of New Zealand
this entity surface form:
tangata whenua
this entity surface form:
Maori
subject surface form:
Te Arawhiti
this entity surface form:
Māori iwi
this entity surface form:
Māori iwi
this entity surface form:
tangata whenua of New Zealand
subject surface form:
HMS Maori (F24)
this entity surface form:
Māori women