Te Pehi Kupe
E897914
Te Pehi Kupe was a prominent early 19th-century Ngāti Toa rangatira (chief) known for his leadership during the iwi’s migrations and conflicts in Aotearoa New Zealand.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Te Pehi Kupe canonical | 1 |
| Te Pēhi Kupe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11006079 — 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: Te Pehi Kupe Context triple: [Ngāti Toa Rangatira, hasNotableLeader, Te Pehi Kupe]
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A.
Te Kōti Mana Nui
Te Kōti Mana Nui is the Māori-language name for the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the country’s highest judicial authority.
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B.
Te Tatua-a-Riukiuta
Te Tātua-a-Riukiuta is a volcanic cone and crater complex in Auckland, New Zealand, notable as one of the prominent features of the city’s volcanic landscape.
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C.
Te Ruki Kawiti
Te Ruki Kawiti was a prominent 19th-century Ngāpuhi chief and military strategist known for his leadership in the Northern War against British colonial forces in New Zealand.
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D.
Te Ara a Kiwa
Te Ara a Kiwa is the Māori name for Foveaux Strait, the body of water separating New Zealand’s South Island from Stewart Island/Rakiura.
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E.
Te Ākitai Waiohua
Te Ākitai Waiohua is a Māori iwi (tribe) of the Waiohua confederation in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, with deep ancestral, cultural, and historical ties to the Manukau region.
- 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: Te Pehi Kupe Target entity description: Te Pehi Kupe was a prominent early 19th-century Ngāti Toa rangatira (chief) known for his leadership during the iwi’s migrations and conflicts in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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A.
Te Kōti Mana Nui
Te Kōti Mana Nui is the Māori-language name for the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the country’s highest judicial authority.
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B.
Te Tatua-a-Riukiuta
Te Tātua-a-Riukiuta is a volcanic cone and crater complex in Auckland, New Zealand, notable as one of the prominent features of the city’s volcanic landscape.
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C.
Te Ruki Kawiti
Te Ruki Kawiti was a prominent 19th-century Ngāpuhi chief and military strategist known for his leadership in the Northern War against British colonial forces in New Zealand.
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D.
Te Ara a Kiwa
Te Ara a Kiwa is the Māori name for Foveaux Strait, the body of water separating New Zealand’s South Island from Stewart Island/Rakiura.
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E.
Te Ākitai Waiohua
Te Ākitai Waiohua is a Māori iwi (tribe) of the Waiohua confederation in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, with deep ancestral, cultural, and historical ties to the Manukau region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Māori rangatira
ⓘ
Ngāti Toa leader ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ngāti Toa migrations from Kāwhia
ⓘ
intertribal warfare in early colonial New Zealand ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Māori customary society ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Māori ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| iwi |
Ngāti Toa
ⓘ
linked to:
Ngāti Toa Rangatira
|
| knownFor |
leadership during Ngāti Toa migrations
ⓘ
participation in intertribal conflicts in Aotearoa ⓘ |
| language |
te reo Māori
ⓘ
linked to:
Te Reo Māori
|
| notableFor | status as prominent Ngāti Toa rangatira ⓘ |
| occupation | tribal leader ⓘ |
| region |
Aotearoa
ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand
|
| role |
rangatira
ⓘ
war leader ⓘ |
| timeInHistory | pre-Treaty of Waitangi era ⓘ |
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: Te Pehi Kupe Description of subject: Te Pehi Kupe was a prominent early 19th-century Ngāti Toa rangatira (chief) known for his leadership during the iwi’s migrations and conflicts in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Te Pehi Kupe