Maia
E478640
Maia is a fantasy novel by Richard Adams set in the same world as his book "Shardik," following the adventures of a young slave girl in a richly detailed, politically complex empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4901593 — 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: Maia Context triple: [Richard Adams, notableWork, 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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Maia
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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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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E.
Carina
Carina is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often associated with meanings like “beloved” or “dear.”
- 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: Maia Target entity description: Maia is a fantasy novel by Richard Adams set in the same world as his book "Shardik," following the adventures of a young slave girl in a richly detailed, politically complex empire.
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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.
Maia
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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C.
Timothea
Timothea is a feminine given name derived from the name Timothy, often interpreted to mean "honoring God."
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D.
Corinna
Corinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Boeotia, renowned for her choral poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.
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E.
Carina
Carina is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often associated with meanings like “beloved” or “dear.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fantasy novel ⓘ |
| author | Richard Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOtherNotableWork | Watership Down NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsElement |
journey and travel
ⓘ
religious cults ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ war ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | David Scutt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Shardik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
epic fantasy
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ |
| hasFictionalCulture | Beklan aristocracy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalInstitution | Beklan court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-14-005999-4 ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Bekla
ⓘ
Beklan Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th‑century British literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Maia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
court politics
ⓘ
political intrigue ⓘ sexual politics ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third‑person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed political system
ⓘ
graphic sexual content ⓘ rich world‑building ⓘ |
| pageCount | over 1000 pages ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | young slave girl ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Allen Lane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Shardik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInFictionalUniverse | Beklan Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesUniverseWith | Shardik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | multi‑part novel ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
personal freedom
ⓘ
power and corruption ⓘ sexual exploitation ⓘ slavery ⓘ social class ⓘ |
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: Maia Description of subject: Maia is a fantasy novel by Richard Adams set in the same world as his book "Shardik," following the adventures of a young slave girl in a richly detailed, politically complex empire.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.