Heron clan
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The Heron clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heron clan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3877209 — 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: Heron clan Context triple: [Cayuga, hasClan, Heron clan]
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A.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
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B.
Clan Gunn
Clan Gunn is a historic Highland Scottish clan traditionally associated with Caithness and Sutherland, known for its Norse-Gaelic origins and long-standing feuds with neighboring clans.
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C.
Clan Sinclair
Clan Sinclair is a historic Scottish Highland clan of Norse-Norman origin, traditionally associated with Caithness and the Earldom of Orkney.
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D.
Clan Urquhart
Clan Urquhart is a historic Scottish Highland clan traditionally linked to the area around Cromarty in the northeast of Scotland.
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E.
Clan Ross
Clan Ross is a historic Highland Scottish clan traditionally associated with Easter Ross and noted for its role in medieval and early modern Scottish history.
- 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: Heron clan Target entity description: The Heron clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
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A.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
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B.
Clan Gunn
Clan Gunn is a historic Highland Scottish clan traditionally associated with Caithness and Sutherland, known for its Norse-Gaelic origins and long-standing feuds with neighboring clans.
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C.
Clan Sinclair
Clan Sinclair is a historic Scottish Highland clan of Norse-Norman origin, traditionally associated with Caithness and the Earldom of Orkney.
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D.
Clan Urquhart
Clan Urquhart is a historic Scottish Highland clan traditionally linked to the area around Cromarty in the northeast of Scotland.
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E.
Clan Ross
Clan Ross is a historic Highland Scottish clan traditionally associated with Easter Ross and noted for its role in medieval and early modern Scottish history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cayuga clan
ⓘ
kinship group ⓘ matrilineal clan ⓘ |
| associatedConfederacy |
Iroquois Confederacy
ⓘ
surface form:
Haudenosaunee Confederacy
|
| associatedPeople |
Cayuga nation
ⓘ
surface form:
Cayuga Nation
|
| broaderCategory |
Haudenosaunee clan
ⓘ
Indigenous North American clan ⓘ Iroquois clan ⓘ |
| confederacyMemberNation | Haudenosaunee ⓘ |
| culture |
Cayuga
ⓘ
Haudenosaunee ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Cayuga ⓘ |
| followsDescentThrough | mother’s line ⓘ |
| hasClanSystemAspect | exogamous marriage rules (marriage outside one’s clan) ⓘ |
| hasInheritancePattern | matrilineal ⓘ |
| hasKinshipSystem | matrilineal descent ⓘ |
| languageContext | Cayuga language ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cayuga nation
ⓘ
surface form:
Cayuga people
Haudenosaunee ⓘ
surface form:
Haudenosaunee clan system
Iroquois clan system ⓘ |
| region |
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence region
Northeastern North America ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Haudenosaunee matrilineal clan system
ⓘ
Iroquois kinship system ⓘ |
| roleInSociety |
helps define identity within Cayuga people
ⓘ
influences marriage rules ⓘ organizes family relationships ⓘ |
| socialFunction |
key kinship group within Cayuga society
ⓘ
key social group within Cayuga society ⓘ |
| symbol | heron ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Heron clan Description of subject: The Heron clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.