Tarot
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Tarot is a system of illustrated cards used in Western esotericism for divination, introspection, and symbolic exploration of spiritual and psychological themes.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tarot canonical | 6 |
| Major Arcana | 5 |
| Minor Arcana | 4 |
| Marseille Tarot | 1 |
| Marseille tarot deck | 1 |
| Rider–Waite–Smith tarot | 1 |
| Rider–Waite–Smith tarot system | 1 |
| Tarot card Knight of Cups | 1 |
| Tarot card The Star (Arcane XVII) | 1 |
| Tarot de Marseille | 1 |
| The High Priestess Tarot card | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T888346 — 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: Tarot Context triple: [Western esotericism, hasField, Tarot]
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A.
Cardiac Cards
Cardiac Cards is a nickname for the former St. Louis Cardinals NFL team, referencing their dramatic, late-game comebacks and close finishes.
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B.
The Art of Prophesying
The Art of Prophesying is a classic 16th-century Puritan manual on preaching that outlines the theology and practical method of delivering biblical sermons.
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C.
Solitaire
Solitaire is a fictional psychic tarot reader and Bond girl who appears as a key ally and love interest to James Bond in the novel and film "Live and Let Die."
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D.
The Hearthstone
The Hearthstone is a lesser-known domestic-themed work by American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, best known for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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E.
The Clairvoyant
The Clairvoyant is a 1935 British drama film starring Claude Rains and Fay Wray, centered on a music-hall mentalist whose apparent psychic powers begin to manifest for real with tragic consequences.
- 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: Tarot Target entity description: Tarot is a system of illustrated cards used in Western esotericism for divination, introspection, and symbolic exploration of spiritual and psychological themes.
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A.
Cardiac Cards
Cardiac Cards is a nickname for the former St. Louis Cardinals NFL team, referencing their dramatic, late-game comebacks and close finishes.
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B.
The Art of Prophesying
The Art of Prophesying is a classic 16th-century Puritan manual on preaching that outlines the theology and practical method of delivering biblical sermons.
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C.
Solitaire
Solitaire is a fictional psychic tarot reader and Bond girl who appears as a key ally and love interest to James Bond in the novel and film "Live and Let Die."
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D.
The Hearthstone
The Hearthstone is a lesser-known domestic-themed work by American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, best known for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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E.
The Clairvoyant
The Clairvoyant is a 1935 British drama film starring Claude Rains and Fay Wray, centered on a music-hall mentalist whose apparent psychic powers begin to manifest for real with tragic consequences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
card game
ⓘ
divination system ⓘ esoteric tradition ⓘ symbolic system ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jungian psychology
ⓘ
linked to:
Carl Jung
Kabbalah ⓘ archetypes ⓘ astrology ⓘ numerology ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| developedFrom | playing cards ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
tarocchi
ⓘ
tarock ⓘ tarot cards ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
court cards
ⓘ
pip cards ⓘ trump cards ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUse | trick-taking card game ⓘ |
| hasModernUse |
personal development
ⓘ
therapeutic reflection ⓘ |
| hasNotableDeck |
Marseille Tarot
ⓘ
linked to:
Tarot
Rider–Waite–Smith tarot ⓘ
linked to:
Tarot
Thoth Tarot ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfCards | 78 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfCardsInMajorArcana | 22 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfCardsInMinorArcana | 56 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Major Arcana
ⓘ
linked to:
Tarot
Minor Arcana ⓘ
linked to:
suit of Swords
|
| hasSubdivision |
suit of Cups
ⓘ
suit of Pentacles ⓘ suit of Swords ⓘ suit of Wands ⓘ |
| interpretedThrough |
card spreads
ⓘ
intuitive reading ⓘ symbolic imagery ⓘ |
| originatedAs | card game ⓘ |
| originatedIn | Europe ⓘ |
| practicedBy |
occultists
ⓘ
spiritual practitioners ⓘ tarot readers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
divination
ⓘ
introspection ⓘ meditation ⓘ psychological exploration ⓘ spiritual exploration ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| usedIn |
New Age spirituality
ⓘ
Western esotericism ⓘ occultism ⓘ |
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: Tarot Description of subject: Tarot is a system of illustrated cards used in Western esotericism for divination, introspection, and symbolic exploration of spiritual and psychological themes.
Referenced by (23)
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