Turtle clan
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The Turtle clan is one of the traditional matrilineal kinship groups of the Onondaga people, part of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy’s clan system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Turtle clan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3934253 — 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: Turtle clan Context triple: [Onondaga, clansInclude, Turtle clan]
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A.
Eel clan
The Eel clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation clans, forming part of its matrilineal social and kinship structure within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
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B.
Water Spirit clan
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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C.
Snipe clan
The Snipe clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, associated with the snipe bird and integral to their social and kinship structure.
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D.
Bear clan
The Bear clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation matrilineal clans, associated with specific social, political, and ceremonial roles within the community.
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E.
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.
- 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: Turtle clan Target entity description: The Turtle clan is one of the traditional matrilineal kinship groups of the Onondaga people, part of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy’s clan system.
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A.
Eel clan
The Eel clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation clans, forming part of its matrilineal social and kinship structure within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
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B.
Water Spirit clan
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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C.
Snipe clan
The Snipe clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, associated with the snipe bird and integral to their social and kinship structure.
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D.
Bear clan
The Bear clan is one of the traditional Cayuga Nation matrilineal clans, associated with specific social, political, and ceremonial roles within the community.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Onondaga clan
ⓘ
clan ⓘ matrilineal kinship group ⓘ |
| associatedConfederacy |
Iroquois Confederacy
ⓘ
surface form:
Haudenosaunee Confederacy
Iroquois Confederacy ⓘ |
| culture |
Haudenosaunee
ⓘ
Haudenosaunee ⓘ
surface form:
Iroquois
|
| descentTracedThrough | mother ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Onondaga ⓘ |
| governedBy | Haudenosaunee clan laws ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | turtle ⓘ |
| kinshipSystem | matrilineal ⓘ |
| languageCommunity | Onondaga language speakers ⓘ |
| membershipRule | inherited from mother ⓘ |
| membershipType | birthright ⓘ |
| partOf |
Haudenosaunee clan system
ⓘ
Iroquois kinship system ⓘ
surface form:
Iroquois clan system
Onondaga nation ⓘ
surface form:
Onondaga people
|
| people |
Onondaga nation
ⓘ
surface form:
Onondaga Nation members
|
| region | Northeastern North America ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | Haudenosaunee matrilineal clans ⓘ |
| relatedGroup |
Bear clan
ⓘ
Wolf clan ⓘ |
| socialStructure | part of Haudenosaunee clan-based society ⓘ |
| traditionalRole |
kinship organization
ⓘ
social identity 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: Turtle clan Description of subject: The Turtle clan is one of the traditional matrilineal kinship groups of the Onondaga people, part of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy’s clan system.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Oneida Nation