something is a person if it is either Adam or Eve, or if it has a mother. We can express this in a single rule as follows:
person(X) :- (X=adam; X=eve; mother(X, Y)).
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Yis a wildcard in that position. Typically, you would write it as an underscore, primarily because most Prolog compilers will warn about unknown variables, since those could also just be a typo of an existing variable.