Eel clan
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The Eel clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation clans, forming part of its matrilineal social and kinship structure within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eel clan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3877211 — 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: Eel clan Context triple: [Cayuga, hasClan, Eel clan]
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A.
Water Spirit clan
The Water Spirit clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social divisions, associated with water-related spiritual roles, identity, and responsibilities within the tribe’s clan system.
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B.
Snipe clan
The Snipe clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, associated with the snipe bird and integral to their social and kinship structure.
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C.
Bear clan
The Bear clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship groups, historically associated with specific ceremonial roles, responsibilities, and lineage within the tribe.
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D.
Javanshir clan
The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
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E.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
- 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: Eel clan Target entity description: The Eel clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation clans, forming part of its matrilineal social and kinship structure within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
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A.
Water Spirit clan
The Water Spirit clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social divisions, associated with water-related spiritual roles, identity, and responsibilities within the tribe’s clan system.
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B.
Snipe clan
The Snipe clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, associated with the snipe bird and integral to their social and kinship structure.
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C.
Bear clan
The Bear clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship groups, historically associated with specific ceremonial roles, responsibilities, and lineage within the tribe.
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D.
Javanshir clan
The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
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E.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cayuga Nation clan
ⓘ
Haudenosaunee clan ⓘ matrilineal clan ⓘ |
| associatedWith | eel ⓘ |
| culture |
Cayuga
ⓘ
Haudenosaunee ⓘ |
| followsDescentRule | matrilineal descent ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
defining kinship obligations
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organizing marriages ⓘ structuring community responsibilities ⓘ |
| hasRole |
identity marker within Cayuga Nation
ⓘ
kinship structure unit ⓘ social structure unit ⓘ |
| hasSocialSignificance |
determines clan membership
ⓘ
guides responsibilities to relatives ⓘ influences social alliances ⓘ |
| hasType | animal clan ⓘ |
| inheritedThrough | mother ⓘ |
| languageContext | Cayuga language ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Haudenosaunee homelands in the Northeast Woodlands
ⓘ
traditional Cayuga territories ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cayuga nation
ⓘ
surface form:
Cayuga Nation
Cayuga clan system ⓘ Iroquois Confederacy ⓘ
surface form:
Haudenosaunee Confederacy
traditional Cayuga governance system ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Iroquois kinship system
ⓘ
surface form:
Haudenosaunee clan system
other Cayuga clans ⓘ |
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: Eel clan Description of subject: The Eel clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation clans, forming part of its matrilineal social and kinship structure within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.