Mata-Au is Māori
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Mata-Au is the Māori name for the Clutha River, one of New Zealand's largest and most significant rivers.
All labels observed (1)
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| Mata-Au is Māori canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6041309 — 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: Mata-Au is Māori Context triple: [Clutha River / Mata-Au, nameLanguage, Mata-Au is Māori]
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A.
Mata-Utu
Mata-Utu is the main town and administrative center of the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna in the South Pacific.
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B.
Ngāuruhoe (Māori chief or ancestor)
Ngāuruhoe is a revered Māori chief or ancestral figure whose name was bestowed upon Mount Ngauruhoe in New Zealand, reflecting his significance in local iwi history and tradition.
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C.
Tama-nui-te-rā
Tama-nui-te-rā is the personified sun in Māori mythology, often depicted as a powerful being whose swift journey across the sky was famously challenged and slowed by the hero Māui.
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D.
Maniaki
Maniaki is a small settlement located within the Kastoria regional unit in Western Macedonia, Greece.
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E.
Māui-taha
Māui-taha is one of the lesser-known brothers of the Polynesian culture hero Māui, appearing in various Māori and Polynesian traditions.
- 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: Mata-Au is Māori Target entity description: Mata-Au is the Māori name for the Clutha River, one of New Zealand's largest and most significant rivers.
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A.
Mata-Utu
Mata-Utu is the main town and administrative center of the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna in the South Pacific.
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B.
Ngāuruhoe (Māori chief or ancestor)
Ngāuruhoe is a revered Māori chief or ancestral figure whose name was bestowed upon Mount Ngauruhoe in New Zealand, reflecting his significance in local iwi history and tradition.
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C.
Tama-nui-te-rā
Tama-nui-te-rā is the personified sun in Māori mythology, often depicted as a powerful being whose swift journey across the sky was famously challenged and slowed by the hero Māui.
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D.
Maniaki
Maniaki is a small settlement located within the Kastoria regional unit in Western Macedonia, Greece.
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E.
Māui-taha
Māui-taha is one of the lesser-known brothers of the Polynesian culture hero Māui, appearing in various Māori and Polynesian traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Mata-Au is Māori Description of subject: Mata-Au is the Māori name for the Clutha River, one of New Zealand's largest and most significant rivers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.