Moai head
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A Moai head is a large, monolithic stone statue with an elongated face and prominent features, originally carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moai head canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16633625 — 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: Moai head Context triple: [Squidward's Easter Island head house, exteriorShape, Moai head]
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A.
Hoa Hakananaiʻa statue
The Hoa Hakananaiʻa statue is a famous Easter Island moai carved from basalt, renowned for its intricate petroglyphs and as one of the British Museum’s most iconic Polynesian sculptures.
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B.
Rapa Nui wooden statues
Rapa Nui wooden statues are traditional carved figures from Easter Island that embody the island’s ancestral, spiritual, and artistic heritage.
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C.
Moai platforms of Easter Island
The Moai platforms of Easter Island are ceremonial stone structures built by the Rapa Nui people to support their iconic monolithic statues and serve as sacred sites along the island’s coasts and interior.
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D.
Nandi statue
The Nandi statue is a massive monolithic sculpture of Shiva’s bull mount, revered as a sacred icon and popular pilgrimage and tourist attraction on Chamundi Hill near Mysuru, India.
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E.
the Lanzón monolith
The Lanzón monolith is a towering, fanged stone deity sculpture at the heart of the Chavín de Huántar temple complex in Peru, serving as a central religious icon of the Chavín civilization.
- 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: Moai head Target entity description: A Moai head is a large, monolithic stone statue with an elongated face and prominent features, originally carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.
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A.
Hoa Hakananaiʻa statue
The Hoa Hakananaiʻa statue is a famous Easter Island moai carved from basalt, renowned for its intricate petroglyphs and as one of the British Museum’s most iconic Polynesian sculptures.
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B.
Rapa Nui wooden statues
Rapa Nui wooden statues are traditional carved figures from Easter Island that embody the island’s ancestral, spiritual, and artistic heritage.
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C.
Moai platforms of Easter Island
The Moai platforms of Easter Island are ceremonial stone structures built by the Rapa Nui people to support their iconic monolithic statues and serve as sacred sites along the island’s coasts and interior.
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D.
Nandi statue
The Nandi statue is a massive monolithic sculpture of Shiva’s bull mount, revered as a sacred icon and popular pilgrimage and tourist attraction on Chamundi Hill near Mysuru, India.
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E.
the Lanzón monolith
The Lanzón monolith is a towering, fanged stone deity sculpture at the heart of the Chavín de Huántar temple complex in Peru, serving as a central religious icon of the Chavín civilization.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.