Odinani
E128534
Odinani is the indigenous spiritual and cosmological belief system of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria, encompassing their deities, rituals, moral codes, and worldview.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Odinani canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1111861 — 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: Odinani Context triple: [Igbo, traditionalReligion, Odinani]
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A.
Ifa
Ifa is a Yoruba divination and spiritual system centered on a complex corpus of sacred texts and the guidance of the deity Orunmila.
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B.
Ogun
Ogun is a major Yoruba deity revered as the god of iron, war, and craftsmanship, often associated with metalworking, technology, and the clearing of paths.
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C.
Oya
Oya is a powerful Yoruba orisha associated with storms, winds, transformation, and the Niger River.
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D.
Shango
Shango is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the powerful god of thunder, lightning, and justice, often associated with kingship and drumming.
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E.
Me-wuk
Me-wuk refers to the Northern Sierra Miwok people, a Native American group indigenous to the Sierra Nevada region of California with distinct cultural, linguistic, and historical traditions.
- 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: Odinani Target entity description: Odinani is the indigenous spiritual and cosmological belief system of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria, encompassing their deities, rituals, moral codes, and worldview.
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A.
Ifa
Ifa is a Yoruba divination and spiritual system centered on a complex corpus of sacred texts and the guidance of the deity Orunmila.
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B.
Ogun
Ogun is a major Yoruba deity revered as the god of iron, war, and craftsmanship, often associated with metalworking, technology, and the clearing of paths.
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C.
Oya
Oya is a powerful Yoruba orisha associated with storms, winds, transformation, and the Niger River.
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D.
Shango
Shango is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the powerful god of thunder, lightning, and justice, often associated with kingship and drumming.
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E.
Me-wuk
Me-wuk refers to the Northern Sierra Miwok people, a Native American group indigenous to the Sierra Nevada region of California with distinct cultural, linguistic, and historical traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cosmological belief system
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indigenous religion ⓘ spiritual belief system ⓘ traditional African religion ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Igbo cosmology
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linked to:
African traditional religion
Igbo festivals ⓘ Igbo traditional law ⓘ new yam festival ⓘ |
| cosmologyFeature |
ancestor veneration
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chi (personal spirit) ⓘ earth goddess ⓘ spirit world ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Igbo ⓘ |
| hasDeity |
Ala
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Amadioha ⓘ Ani ⓘ Chi ⓘ Chukwu ⓘ Ekwensu ⓘ Ikenga ⓘ |
| hasMoralConcept | nso Ala (abomination against the earth goddess) ⓘ |
| hasRitualSpecialist |
dibia
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diviner ⓘ healer ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | precolonial era ⓘ |
| includesPractice |
divination
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libation ⓘ masquerade rituals ⓘ oath taking ⓘ ritual cleansing ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Igbo social structure ⓘ |
| influences |
Igbo art
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Igbo customary law ⓘ Igbo moral values ⓘ Igbo naming practices ⓘ |
| moralAuthority | Ala ⓘ |
| moralCode | omenala ⓘ |
| practicedBy | Igbo people ⓘ |
| region | southeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
| religiousText | oral tradition ⓘ |
| supremeDeity | Chukwu ⓘ |
| transmissionMethod | oral tradition ⓘ |
| worldviewFeature |
balance between visible and invisible worlds
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destiny guided by chi ⓘ reincarnation belief ⓘ taboos enforced by deities ⓘ |
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: Odinani Description of subject: Odinani is the indigenous spiritual and cosmological belief system of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria, encompassing their deities, rituals, moral codes, and worldview.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.