Maya
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Maya is the politically charged, genre-blending third studio album by British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A., known for its abrasive electronic sound and commentary on digital surveillance and globalization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maya canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3075105 — 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: Maya Context triple: [M.I.A., thirdAlbum, Maya]
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A.
Maya
The Maya were an advanced Mesoamerican civilization known for their sophisticated writing system, monumental architecture, mathematics, and astronomy.
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B.
Maya
Maya is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often associated with meanings such as "illusion" in Sanskrit, "water" in Hebrew, and "good mother" in Greek.
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C.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
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D.
Itzamna
Itzamna is a major Maya creator god associated with the sky, wisdom, writing, and rulership in ancient Mesoamerican religion.
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E.
Waset
Waset was the ancient Egyptian city known in Greek as Thebes, a major religious and political center along the Nile.
- 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: Maya Target entity description: Maya is the politically charged, genre-blending third studio album by British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A., known for its abrasive electronic sound and commentary on digital surveillance and globalization.
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A.
Maya
The Maya were an advanced Mesoamerican civilization known for their sophisticated writing system, monumental architecture, mathematics, and astronomy.
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B.
Maya
Maya is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often associated with meanings such as "illusion" in Sanskrit, "water" in Hebrew, and "good mother" in Greek.
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C.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
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D.
Itzamna
Itzamna is a major Maya creator god associated with the sky, wisdom, writing, and rulership in ancient Mesoamerican religion.
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E.
Waset
Waset was the ancient Egyptian city known in Greek as Thebes, a major religious and political center along the Nile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
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studio album ⓘ |
| addresses |
online privacy
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state surveillance ⓘ war on terror discourse ⓘ |
| artist | M.I.A. ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Sri Lanka
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | polarized ⓘ |
| followedBy | Matangi ⓘ |
| follows | Kala ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative dance
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electronic music ⓘ electropunk ⓘ experimental hip hop ⓘ industrial pop ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
abrasive sound
ⓘ
genre-blending ⓘ politically charged ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Born Free
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linked to:
Born Free (song)
Caps Lock ⓘ Internet Connection ⓘ It Takes a Muscle ⓘ Lovalot ⓘ Meds and Feds ⓘ Space ⓘ Steppin Up ⓘ Story to Be Told ⓘ Tell Me Why ⓘ Teqkilla ⓘ XXXO ⓘ |
| incorporatesSound |
digital glitches
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distorted samples ⓘ industrial noise ⓘ |
| label |
N.E.E.T. Recordings
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XL Recordings ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | controversial music video for "Born Free" ⓘ |
| performer | M.I.A. ⓘ |
| positionInDiscography | third studio album by M.I.A. ⓘ |
| producer |
Blaqstarr
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Diplo ⓘ M.I.A. ⓘ Rusko ⓘ Switch ⓘ |
| theme |
censorship
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digital surveillance ⓘ globalization ⓘ information control ⓘ internet culture ⓘ technology ⓘ |
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: Maya Description of subject: Maya is the politically charged, genre-blending third studio album by British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A., known for its abrasive electronic sound and commentary on digital surveillance and globalization.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.