Mayami
E77088
Mayami is a historical Native American people who lived around Lake Okeechobee in what is now southern Florida.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mayami canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T616088 — 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: Mayami Context triple: [Mayaimi people, nameVariant, Mayami]
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A.
Hana
Hana is a compassionate Canadian army nurse in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," who cares for a badly burned man in an abandoned Italian villa during World War II.
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B.
Minna
Minna is a major city and administrative center in north-central Nigeria, known as the capital of Niger State and a regional hub for trade and transportation.
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C.
Sojin Kamiyama
Sojin Kamiyama was a Japanese actor of the silent film era, best known for his prominent roles in early Hollywood productions.
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D.
Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
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E.
Mariko Suga
Mariko Suga is the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and a largely private figure outside of her role as his spouse.
- 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: Mayami Target entity description: Mayami is a historical Native American people who lived around Lake Okeechobee in what is now southern Florida.
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A.
Hana
Hana is a compassionate Canadian army nurse in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," who cares for a badly burned man in an abandoned Italian villa during World War II.
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B.
Minna
Minna is a major city and administrative center in north-central Nigeria, known as the capital of Niger State and a regional hub for trade and transportation.
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C.
Sojin Kamiyama
Sojin Kamiyama was a Japanese actor of the silent film era, best known for his prominent roles in early Hollywood productions.
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D.
Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
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E.
Mariko Suga
Mariko Suga is the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and a largely private figure outside of her role as his spouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American people
ⓘ
indigenous people of North America ⓘ |
| archaeologicalEvidence | sites around Lake Okeechobee (general attribution) ⓘ |
| associatedBodyOfWater | Lake Okeechobee ⓘ |
| associatedBodyOfWaterFormerName | Lake Mayaimi ⓘ |
| causeOfDecline |
displacement (attributed, likely)
ⓘ
introduced diseases (attributed, likely) ⓘ warfare and raids (attributed, likely) ⓘ |
| colonialPowerInRegion | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ |
| encounteredBy |
Spanish explorers
ⓘ
Spanish missionaries ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf | region around Lake Okeechobee ⓘ |
| fate | population declined after European contact ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early colonial period
ⓘ
pre-Columbian era ⓘ
linked to:
Pre-Columbian era
|
| languageFamily |
Muskogean languages (attributed, uncertain)
ⓘ
linked to:
Muskogean languages
|
| locatedInThePresentDay |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
southern Florida ⓘ |
| modernCulturalLegacy |
name preserved in Lake Okeechobee’s earlier name "Lake Mayaimi"
ⓘ
name related to the city name "Miami" (via Lake Mayaimi) (commonly asserted, not fully certain) ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | possibly means "big water" or "big lake" ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Maimi
ⓘ
linked to:
Miami
Mayaca (sometimes confused or conflated in sources) ⓘ Mayaimi ⓘ Maymi ⓘ |
| primarySubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ small-scale agriculture (attributed, uncertain) ⓘ |
| regionType |
lake shore environment
ⓘ
marshes ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| regionWithin |
Everglades-adjacent area
ⓘ
Florida Peninsula ⓘ |
| religion | indigenous animist beliefs (reconstructed, general) ⓘ |
| status | extinct as a distinct ethnic group ⓘ |
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: Mayami Description of subject: Mayami is a historical Native American people who lived around Lake Okeechobee in what is now southern Florida.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.