Wolf clan
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The Wolf clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation matrilineal clans, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wolf clan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3877206 — 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: Wolf clan Context triple: [Cayuga, hasClan, Wolf clan]
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A.
Wolf clan
The Wolf clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social divisions, associated with specific kinship, responsibilities, and cultural roles within the tribe.
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B.
Bear clan
The Bear clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship groups, historically associated with specific ceremonial roles, responsibilities, and lineage within the tribe.
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C.
Deer clan
The Deer clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship divisions, associated with specific ancestral roles, responsibilities, and identity within the tribe.
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D.
Thunderbird clan
The Thunderbird clan is a traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship group associated with the powerful thunderbird spirit in the tribe’s cultural and ceremonial life.
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E.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
- 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: Wolf clan Target entity description: The Wolf clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation matrilineal clans, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
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A.
Wolf clan
The Wolf clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social divisions, associated with specific kinship, responsibilities, and cultural roles within the tribe.
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B.
Bear clan
The Bear clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship groups, historically associated with specific ceremonial roles, responsibilities, and lineage within the tribe.
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C.
Deer clan
The Deer clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship divisions, associated with specific ancestral roles, responsibilities, and identity within the tribe.
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D.
Thunderbird clan
The Thunderbird clan is a traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship group associated with the powerful thunderbird spirit in the tribe’s cultural and ceremonial life.
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E.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cayuga Nation clan
ⓘ
Haudenosaunee clan ⓘ matrilineal clan ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture |
Haudenosaunee
ⓘ
Iroquois ⓘ
linked to:
Haudenosaunee
|
| associatedWithNation |
Cayuga Nation
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuga nation
|
| followsDescentRule | matrilineal descent ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
defining kinship obligations
ⓘ
organizing social relations ⓘ structuring marriage rules ⓘ |
| hasKinshipPrinciple | clan membership inherited from the mother ⓘ |
| hasMembershipRule | children belong to their mother’s clan ⓘ |
| hasRole |
kinship group within Cayuga Nation
ⓘ
social group within Cayuga Nation ⓘ |
| hasSocialSignificance |
basis for mutual support among members
ⓘ
framework for ceremonial responsibilities ⓘ identity marker for Cayuga people ⓘ |
| isElementOf | Haudenosaunee longhouse social structure ⓘ |
| isMatrilinealIn |
Cayuga Nation
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuga nation
|
| isRecognizedBy |
Cayuga traditional governance
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuga nation
|
| languageContext | Cayuga language ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cayuga Nation
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuga nation
Cayuga clan system ⓘ Haudenosaunee Confederacy clan system ⓘ
linked to:
Haudenosaunee
Haudenosaunee clan system ⓘ |
| sharesClanSystemWith |
Bear clan
ⓘ
Turtle clan ⓘ other Cayuga clans ⓘ |
| usesClanAnimalSymbol | wolf ⓘ |
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: Wolf clan Description of subject: The Wolf clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation matrilineal clans, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Laxgibuu (Wolf)