Ala
E134086
Ala is the Igbo earth goddess and principal deity of morality, fertility, and the underworld in traditional Igbo religion.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1111864 — 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: Ala Context triple: [Igbo, traditionalDeity, Ala]
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Aldan
Aldan is a mining town in Russia’s Sakha Republic known for its significant gold deposits and remote Siberian location.
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Osnos
Osnos is a surname most notably associated with American journalist and author Peter Osnos and his family.
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Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
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Ain
Ain is a department in eastern France known for its diverse landscapes, historic towns, and proximity to both the Alps and the Swiss border.
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Dila
Dila is the commonly used short name for FC Dila Gori, a professional football club based in Gori, Georgia.
- 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: Ala Target entity description: Ala is the Igbo earth goddess and principal deity of morality, fertility, and the underworld in traditional Igbo religion.
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A.
Aldan
Aldan is a mining town in Russia’s Sakha Republic known for its significant gold deposits and remote Siberian location.
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B.
Osnos
Osnos is a surname most notably associated with American journalist and author Peter Osnos and his family.
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C.
Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
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D.
Ain
Ain is a department in eastern France known for its diverse landscapes, historic towns, and proximity to both the Alps and the Swiss border.
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E.
Dila
Dila is the commonly used short name for FC Dila Gori, a professional football club based in Gori, Georgia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Igbo deity
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deity ⓘ earth goddess ⓘ fertility goddess ⓘ moral deity ⓘ underworld deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture
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ancestors ⓘ harvest ⓘ land ⓘ the dead ⓘ |
| cosmicFunction |
guardian of the underworld
ⓘ
receiver of the dead ⓘ |
| culture | Igbo people ⓘ |
| domain |
earth
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fertility ⓘ morality ⓘ underworld ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Ala Ndigbo
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Ana ⓘ Ani ⓘ |
| importance | one of the most important deities in Igbo cosmology ⓘ |
| moralAuthorityOver | Igbo community ⓘ |
| oversees |
laws of the land
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oaths ⓘ taboos ⓘ |
| punishes |
abominations
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moral transgressions ⓘ |
| regulates |
agricultural practices
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land use ⓘ sexual morality ⓘ social conduct ⓘ |
| religion | traditional Igbo religion ⓘ |
| role |
principal deity of fertility
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principal deity of morality ⓘ principal deity of the underworld ⓘ |
| sacredSpace |
earth shrines
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sacred groves ⓘ |
| symbol |
earth
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fertile soil ⓘ python ⓘ |
| typeOf | mother goddess ⓘ |
| worshipPractices |
festivals
ⓘ
ritual offerings ⓘ sacrifices ⓘ |
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: Ala Description of subject: Ala is the Igbo earth goddess and principal deity of morality, fertility, and the underworld in traditional Igbo religion.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ala