Bear clan
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The Bear clan is one of the traditional matrilineal kinship groups of the Onondaga people, playing a key role in their social organization, identity, and governance within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bear clan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3934252 — 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: Bear clan Context triple: [Onondaga, clansInclude, Bear clan]
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A.
Bear clan
The Bear clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation matrilineal clans, associated with specific social, political, and ceremonial roles within the community.
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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.
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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D.
Wolf clan
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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E.
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.
- 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: Bear clan Target entity description: The Bear clan is one of the traditional matrilineal kinship groups of the Onondaga people, playing a key role in their social organization, identity, and governance within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
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A.
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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B.
Bear clan
The Bear clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation matrilineal clans, associated with specific social, political, and ceremonial roles within the community.
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C.
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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D.
Wolf clan
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Onondaga clan
ⓘ
matrilineal kinship group ⓘ social organization unit ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture | Haudenosaunee ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople |
Onondaga people
ⓘ
linked to:
Onondaga nation
|
| determinesMembershipBy | mother’s clan ⓘ |
| followsClanInheritance | through mother’s line ⓘ |
| governedBy | Haudenosaunee clan law ⓘ |
| hasContinuity | traditional institution maintained into the present ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
participating in political decision-making
ⓘ
providing social identity ⓘ regulating marriage within Onondaga society ⓘ selecting or supporting leaders according to Haudenosaunee custom ⓘ structuring kinship obligations ⓘ |
| hasKinshipSystem | matrilineal descent ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
Haudenosaunee governance
ⓘ
Onondaga governance ⓘ Onondaga identity ⓘ Onondaga social organization ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus | core component of Onondaga community structure ⓘ |
| languageContext | Onondaga language ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Onondaga traditional territory
ⓘ
present-day New York State region ⓘ |
| partOf |
Haudenosaunee Confederacy
ⓘ
linked to:
Iroquois Confederacy
Onondaga Nation ⓘ
linked to:
Onondaga nation
|
| relatedTo | Iroquoian kinship system ⓘ |
| sharesSystemWith |
Turtle clan
ⓘ
Wolf clan ⓘ |
| typeOf | Haudenosaunee clan ⓘ |
| usesClanSymbol | bear ⓘ |
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: Bear clan Description of subject: The Bear clan is one of the traditional matrilineal kinship groups of the Onondaga people, playing a key role in their social organization, identity, and governance within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.