Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else)
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The Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else) is a traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) ceremonial greeting and prayer that expresses gratitude to all elements of the natural world and is recited to open gatherings and teach respect, harmony, and interconnectedness.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thanksgiving Address | 1 |
| Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9354742 — 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: Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else) Context triple: [Oneida Nation, culturalPractice, Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else)]
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Ninth Address
The Ninth Address is one of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s influential patriotic-philosophical speeches in his "Addresses to the German Nation," contributing to his vision of German national renewal and education.
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B.
Seventh Address
The Seventh Address is one of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s influential nationalist-philosophical speeches collected in "Addresses to the German Nation," delivered in Berlin in 1807–1808.
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C.
Thirteenth Address
The Thirteenth Address is one of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s nationalist-philosophical speeches in his "Addresses to the German Nation," delivered in 1807–1808 to inspire German cultural and political renewal under Napoleonic occupation.
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D.
Twelfth Address
Twelfth Address is one of the later speeches in Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s "Addresses to the German Nation," contributing to his philosophical and nationalist vision for German cultural and moral renewal.
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E.
Fourteenth Address
The Fourteenth Address is one of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s influential nationalist-philosophical speeches collected in "Addresses to the German Nation," delivered in Berlin in 1807–1808.
- 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: Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else) Target entity description: The Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else) is a traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) ceremonial greeting and prayer that expresses gratitude to all elements of the natural world and is recited to open gatherings and teach respect, harmony, and interconnectedness.
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A.
Ninth Address
The Ninth Address is one of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s influential patriotic-philosophical speeches in his "Addresses to the German Nation," contributing to his vision of German national renewal and education.
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B.
Seventh Address
The Seventh Address is one of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s influential nationalist-philosophical speeches collected in "Addresses to the German Nation," delivered in Berlin in 1807–1808.
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C.
Thirteenth Address
The Thirteenth Address is one of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s nationalist-philosophical speeches in his "Addresses to the German Nation," delivered in 1807–1808 to inspire German cultural and political renewal under Napoleonic occupation.
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D.
Twelfth Address
Twelfth Address is one of the later speeches in Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s "Addresses to the German Nation," contributing to his philosophical and nationalist vision for German cultural and moral renewal.
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E.
Fourteenth Address
The Fourteenth Address is one of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s influential nationalist-philosophical speeches collected in "Addresses to the German Nation," delivered in Berlin in 1807–1808.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Haudenosaunee cultural practice
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ceremonial address ⓘ indigenous oral tradition ⓘ traditional prayer ⓘ |
| addresses |
Creator
NERFINISHED
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Mother Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ animals ⓘ moon ⓘ people gathered ⓘ plants ⓘ stars ⓘ sun ⓘ teachers ⓘ thunderers ⓘ waters ⓘ winds ⓘ |
| associatedNation |
Cayuga
NERFINISHED
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Mohawk NERFINISHED ⓘ Oneida NERFINISHED ⓘ Onondaga NERFINISHED ⓘ Seneca NERFINISHED ⓘ Tuscarora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Iroquois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
indigenous prayer
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opening address ⓘ |
| culture | Haudenosaunee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationalRole |
teaches community responsibility
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teaches cultural values ⓘ teaches environmental stewardship ⓘ |
| function |
remind listeners of responsibilities to the natural world
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set a respectful tone for events ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
NERFINISHED
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Iroquois Thanksgiving Address NERFINISHED ⓘ Words That Come Before All Else NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Haudenosaunee languages ⓘ |
| purpose |
express gratitude
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open gatherings ⓘ teach harmony ⓘ teach interconnectedness ⓘ teach respect ⓘ |
| region | Northeastern North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousOrSpiritualTradition | Haudenosaunee spirituality ⓘ |
| structure | series of greetings and thanks ⓘ |
| theme |
gratitude to all elements of the natural world
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interdependence of all beings ⓘ respect for nature ⓘ |
| transmission | oral tradition ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
ceremonial gatherings
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community meetings ⓘ educational settings ⓘ |
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: Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else) Description of subject: The Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else) is a traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) ceremonial greeting and prayer that expresses gratitude to all elements of the natural world and is recited to open gatherings and teach respect, harmony, and interconnectedness.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Oneida Nation
Tuscarora Nation of New York
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hasCulturalPractice
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Thanksgiving Address (Words That Come Before All Else)
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this entity surface form:
Thanksgiving Address