Mayo
E169485
The Mayo are an Indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, primarily inhabiting the state of Sonora and known for their rich agricultural traditions and ceremonial dances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mayo canonical | 14 |
| Mayo (Yoreme) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1474486 — 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: Mayo Context triple: [Sonora, containsIndigenousPeople, Mayo]
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A.
Marquette
Marquette is a city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known as a key shipping and commercial hub on the southern shore of Lake Superior.
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B.
Heart of America
Heart of America is a nickname for Kansas City, Missouri, highlighting its central location and cultural significance in the United States.
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C.
Niles
Niles is a historic former town in California, now a district of Fremont, known for its early silent film industry and railroad heritage.
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D.
Nokomis
Nokomis is a wise and nurturing grandmother figure in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha," rooted in Ojibwe legend.
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E.
Stearns
Stearns is the middle name of the influential modernist poet and critic T. S. Eliot, whose full name is Thomas Stearns Eliot.
- 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: Mayo Target entity description: The Mayo are an Indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, primarily inhabiting the state of Sonora and known for their rich agricultural traditions and ceremonial dances.
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A.
Marquette
Marquette is a city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known as a key shipping and commercial hub on the southern shore of Lake Superior.
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B.
Heart of America
Heart of America is a nickname for Kansas City, Missouri, highlighting its central location and cultural significance in the United States.
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C.
Niles
Niles is a historic former town in California, now a district of Fremont, known for its early silent film industry and railroad heritage.
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D.
Nokomis
Nokomis is a wise and nurturing grandmother figure in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha," rooted in Ojibwe legend.
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E.
Stearns
Stearns is the middle name of the influential modernist poet and critic T. S. Eliot, whose full name is Thomas Stearns Eliot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people
ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ |
| agriculturalPractice | irrigation agriculture ⓘ |
| agriculturalProduct |
beans
ⓘ
maize ⓘ squash ⓘ wheat ⓘ |
| ceremonialDance |
Deer dance
ⓘ
Matachines dance ⓘ Paskola dance ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| culturalArea |
Greater Southwest cultural area
ⓘ
linked to:
Greater Southwest
Northwest Mexico ⓘ
linked to:
Northwestern Mexico
|
| ethnicGroupOf | Mexico ⓘ |
| governedBy | traditional community authorities ⓘ |
| hasRitual |
Holy Week processions
ⓘ
linked to:
Semana Santa processions
Lenten ceremonies ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Río Fuerte region
ⓘ
Río Mayo valley ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Easter ceremonies
ⓘ
ceremonial dances ⓘ rich agricultural traditions ⓘ ritual masks ⓘ |
| language | Mayo language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Uto-Aztecan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Uto-Aztecan
|
| populationRegion |
northern Sinaloa
ⓘ
southern Sonora ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Sinaloa
ⓘ
Sonora ⓘ |
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Guarijío
ⓘ
Yaqui ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
traditional Indigenous beliefs ⓘ |
| selfDesignation | Yoreme ⓘ |
| traditionalArt |
dance regalia making
ⓘ
mask carving ⓘ |
| traditionalClothingFeature | embroidered garments for ceremonies ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy |
agriculture
ⓘ
cattle raising ⓘ fishing ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing |
adobe houses
ⓘ
thatched-roof houses ⓘ |
| traditionalReligionFeature | syncretism of Catholic and Indigenous beliefs ⓘ |
| usesInstrument |
drums in ceremonies
ⓘ
flutes in ceremonies ⓘ rasps in ceremonies ⓘ |
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: Mayo Description of subject: The Mayo are an Indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, primarily inhabiting the state of Sonora and known for their rich agricultural traditions and ceremonial dances.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.