Maat
E133376
Maat is the ancient Egyptian goddess and personification of truth, justice, balance, and cosmic order, central to both mythology and pharaonic law.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maat canonical | 21 |
| Maat (justice) | 1 |
| Maat (order) | 1 |
| Maat (truth, order) | 1 |
| cosmic order (Maat) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1129404 — 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: Maat Context triple: [Bastet, sibling, Maat]
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A.
Sothis
Sothis is an ancient Egyptian goddess personifying the star Sirius, associated with the Nile’s inundation and often linked with the goddess Isis.
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B.
Geb
Geb is the ancient Egyptian god of the earth, often depicted as a reclining man beneath the sky goddess Nut and associated with fertility, vegetation, and the underworld.
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C.
Thinis
Thinis was an ancient Egyptian city traditionally regarded as the early dynastic capital and the center of the first pharaonic unification of Egypt.
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D.
Nunki
Nunki is a prominent blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius, known as one of its brightest and most easily recognizable members.
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E.
Ntumu
Ntumu is a dialect of the Fang language spoken by Fang communities in parts of Central Africa, particularly in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Cameroon.
- 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: Maat Target entity description: Maat is the ancient Egyptian goddess and personification of truth, justice, balance, and cosmic order, central to both mythology and pharaonic law.
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A.
Sothis
Sothis is an ancient Egyptian goddess personifying the star Sirius, associated with the Nile’s inundation and often linked with the goddess Isis.
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B.
Geb
Geb is the ancient Egyptian god of the earth, often depicted as a reclining man beneath the sky goddess Nut and associated with fertility, vegetation, and the underworld.
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C.
Thinis
Thinis was an ancient Egyptian city traditionally regarded as the early dynastic capital and the center of the first pharaonic unification of Egypt.
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D.
Nunki
Nunki is a prominent blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius, known as one of its brightest and most easily recognizable members.
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E.
Ntumu
Ntumu is a dialect of the Fang language spoken by Fang communities in parts of Central Africa, particularly in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Cameroon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Egyptian goddess
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ personification ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Book of the Dead
ⓘ
Coffin Texts ⓘ Pyramid Texts ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Osiris
ⓘ
Pharaoh ⓘ Ra ⓘ Thoth ⓘ |
| centralConceptIn |
ancient Egyptian cosmology
ⓘ
ancient Egyptian ethics ⓘ ancient Egyptian kingship ideology ⓘ |
| conceptualOppositeOf | isfet ⓘ |
| cultCenter |
Heliopolis
ⓘ
Memphis ⓘ Thebes ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
seated or standing woman
ⓘ
woman with an ostrich feather on her head ⓘ |
| domain |
balance
ⓘ
cosmic order ⓘ justice ⓘ truth ⓘ |
| functionInAfterlife | standard for judgment of the dead ⓘ |
| heartWeighedAgainst | feather of Maat ⓘ |
| hieroglyph | feather symbol ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
ankh
ⓘ
feather headdress ⓘ ostrich feather ⓘ scepter ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Weighing of the Heart ceremony
ⓘ
linked to:
Duat
|
| judgmentSceneAssociatedWith | Osiris ⓘ |
| languageOfName | ancient Egyptian ⓘ |
| normativePrincipleFor |
behavior of individuals
ⓘ
conduct of officials ⓘ rule of the Pharaoh ⓘ |
| oftenConsideredDaughterOf | Ra ⓘ |
| parent | Ra ⓘ |
| pharaohDuty | uphold Maat ⓘ |
| pharaohRitual | offering of Maat to the gods ⓘ |
| represents |
law
ⓘ
order ⓘ right conduct ⓘ |
| roleIn |
Egyptian mythology
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Egyptian religion
pharaonic law ⓘ |
| spouseOrConsort | Thoth ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
justice
ⓘ
moral order ⓘ truth ⓘ universal harmony ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Middle Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
New Kingdom ⓘ
linked to:
New Kingdom of Egypt
Old Kingdom ⓘ
linked to:
Old Kingdom of Egypt
|
| transliterationVariant |
Ma'at
ⓘ
Maat (with aleph) ⓘ |
| typeOf |
cosmic principle
ⓘ
moral principle ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
ancient Egypt
ⓘ
linked to:
Pharaonic Egypt
|
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: Maat Description of subject: Maat is the ancient Egyptian goddess and personification of truth, justice, balance, and cosmic order, central to both mythology and pharaonic law.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maat
linked to: Maat
linked to: Maat
subject linked to:
Re (sun god)
subject linked to:
Re (sun god)
linked to: Maat