Mohawk people
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The Mohawk people are an Indigenous nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy traditionally inhabiting areas of what are now upstate New York and southeastern Canada.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mohawk people canonical | 27 |
| Mohawk Nation | 18 |
| Mohawk nation | 3 |
| Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) | 2 |
| Kahnawake Mohawk | 1 |
| Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) of mission villages near Montreal | 1 |
| Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) people | 1 |
| Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk) people | 1 |
| Mohawk communities | 1 |
| Mohawks | 1 |
| Wahta Mohawks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T353182 — 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 people Context triple: [Mohawk River, namedAfter, Mohawk people]
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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.
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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.
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C.
Pequot people
The Pequot people are an Algonquian-speaking Native American nation of southern New England, historically influential in the region and known for their role in early colonial-era conflicts such as the Pequot War.
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D.
Abenaki
The Abenaki are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, primarily associated with what is now northern New England and southeastern Canada, known for their distinct Algonquian language and cultural traditions.
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E.
Lenape
The Lenape are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, traditionally centered in what is now the mid-Atlantic United States, including present-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
- 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 people Target entity description: The Mohawk people are an Indigenous nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy traditionally inhabiting areas of what are now upstate New York and southeastern Canada.
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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.
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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.
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C.
Pequot people
The Pequot people are an Algonquian-speaking Native American nation of southern New England, historically influential in the region and known for their role in early colonial-era conflicts such as the Pequot War.
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D.
Abenaki
The Abenaki are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, primarily associated with what is now northern New England and southeastern Canada, known for their distinct Algonquian language and cultural traditions.
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E.
Lenape
The Lenape are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, traditionally centered in what is now the mid-Atlantic United States, including present-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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 people Description of subject: The Mohawk people are an Indigenous nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy traditionally inhabiting areas of what are now upstate New York and southeastern Canada.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mohawk Nation
this entity surface form:
Mohawk Nation
this entity surface form:
Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk)
this entity surface form:
Mohawk Nation