Water Spirit clan
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The Water Spirit clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social divisions, associated with water-related spiritual roles, identity, and responsibilities within the tribe’s clan system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Water Spirit clan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T663725 — 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: Water Spirit clan Context triple: [Ho-Chunk, hasClan, Water Spirit clan]
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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.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Kawaiisu people
The Kawaiisu people are an Indigenous Native American group traditionally inhabiting the southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains of California, known for their Uto-Aztecan language and rich basketry and rock art traditions.
- 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: Water Spirit clan Target entity description: The Water Spirit clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social divisions, associated with water-related spiritual roles, identity, and responsibilities within the tribe’s clan system.
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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.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Kawaiisu people
The Kawaiisu people are an Indigenous Native American group traditionally inhabiting the southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains of California, known for their Uto-Aztecan language and rich basketry and rock art traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ho-Chunk clan
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social division ⓘ traditional social group ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ho-Chunk spiritual traditions
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ceremonial responsibilities ⓘ spiritual roles ⓘ water ⓘ water spirits ⓘ |
| belongsToTradition |
Ho-Chunk clan system
ⓘ
Ho-Chunk social divisions ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
Ho-Chunk Nation
ⓘ
linked to:
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin
|
| ethnographicContext |
Native American clan system
ⓘ
Upper Midwest Indigenous peoples ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Woodlands
|
| hasCulturalSignificance |
Ho-Chunk identity
ⓘ
clan-based social organization ⓘ traditional governance structure ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
assign spiritual responsibilities
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define social identity ⓘ guide ceremonial participation ⓘ structure kinship relations ⓘ |
| hasRole |
guardian of water
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ritual specialist for water-related matters ⓘ water-related spiritual responsibilities ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Hoocąk language
ⓘ
linked to:
Ho-Chunk language
|
| locatedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Wisconsin region ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ho-Chunk clan system
ⓘ
linked to:
Ho-Chunk
|
| relatedTo |
Ho-Chunk ceremonial life
ⓘ
Ho-Chunk cosmology ⓘ other Ho-Chunk clans ⓘ |
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: Water Spirit clan Description of subject: The Water Spirit clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social divisions, associated with water-related spiritual roles, identity, and responsibilities within the tribe’s clan system.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.