Mohawk
E17204
The Mohawk are a Native American people of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, historically based in what is now upstate New York and known for their influential role in trade, diplomacy, and warfare in northeastern North America.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mohawk canonical | 67 |
| Kanienʼkehá꞉ka | 8 |
| Kanien’kehá:ka | 4 |
| Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk) | 2 |
| Eastern Mohawk | 1 |
| Iroquois nations | 1 |
| Kahnawake Mohawk | 1 |
| Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) | 1 |
| Mohawk warriors | 1 |
| Wahta Mohawks | 1 |
| Western Mohawk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T84656 — 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: Mohawk Context triple: [New Netherland, indigenousPeoples, Mohawk]
-
A.
Mahican
The Mahican are an Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people historically centered in what is now eastern New York and western New England.
-
B.
Ho-Chunk
The Ho-Chunk are a Native American people originally from the Wisconsin and Illinois region, known for their distinct Siouan language, rich cultural traditions, and enduring presence in the Upper Midwest.
-
C.
Haida
Haida is an Indigenous language of the Pacific Northwest Coast, traditionally spoken by the Haida people of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia and parts of southeastern Alaska.
-
D.
Weetamoo
Weetamoo was a prominent 17th-century Wampanoag sachem (female leader) who played a key role in Native resistance during King Philip’s War in New England.
-
E.
Trent
The Trent is one of the principal rivers in England, flowing through the Midlands and joining the Humber estuary before reaching the North Sea.
- 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: Mohawk Target entity description: The Mohawk are a Native American people of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, historically based in what is now upstate New York and known for their influential role in trade, diplomacy, and warfare in northeastern North America.
-
A.
Mahican
The Mahican are an Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people historically centered in what is now eastern New York and western New England.
-
B.
Ho-Chunk
The Ho-Chunk are a Native American people originally from the Wisconsin and Illinois region, known for their distinct Siouan language, rich cultural traditions, and enduring presence in the Upper Midwest.
-
C.
Haida
Haida is an Indigenous language of the Pacific Northwest Coast, traditionally spoken by the Haida people of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia and parts of southeastern Alaska.
-
D.
Weetamoo
Weetamoo was a prominent 17th-century Wampanoag sachem (female leader) who played a key role in Native resistance during King Philip’s War in New England.
-
E.
Trent
The Trent is one of the principal rivers in England, flowing through the Midlands and joining the Humber estuary before reaching the North Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Mohawk Description of subject: The Mohawk are a Native American people of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, historically based in what is now upstate New York and known for their influential role in trade, diplomacy, and warfare in northeastern North America.
Referenced by (88)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Onyota’a:ka
this entity surface form:
Kanien’kehá:ka
this entity surface form:
Kanien’kehá:ka
this entity surface form:
Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
this entity surface form:
Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
this entity surface form:
Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
this entity surface form:
Wahta Mohawks
this entity surface form:
Kanienʼkehá꞉ka