Bast
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Bast is a feline-headed goddess from ancient Egyptian mythology, often associated with protection, warfare, and later domesticity and fertility.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bast canonical | 7 |
| Panther God Bast | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1952129 — 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: Bast Context triple: [T'Challa, deity, Bast]
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A.
Per-Bast
Per-Bast was the ancient Egyptian city dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet, later known by the Greeks as Bubastis.
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B.
Shapash
Shapash is the Phoenician sun goddess, often depicted as a powerful celestial deity associated with light, justice, and guidance among the gods and humans.
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C.
Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Tamyen
Tamyen is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
- 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: Bast Target entity description: Bast is a feline-headed goddess from ancient Egyptian mythology, often associated with protection, warfare, and later domesticity and fertility.
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A.
Per-Bast
Per-Bast was the ancient Egyptian city dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet, later known by the Greeks as Bubastis.
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B.
Shapash
Shapash is the Phoenician sun goddess, often depicted as a powerful celestial deity associated with light, justice, and guidance among the gods and humans.
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C.
Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Tamyen
Tamyen is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Egyptian goddess
ⓘ
deity ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
defense against snakes and vermin
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protection of the home from disease ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Eye of Ra
ⓘ
Hathor ⓘ Ra ⓘ Sekhmet ⓘ sun ⓘ |
| associatedWithAnimal |
cat
ⓘ
lioness ⓘ |
| cultCenter |
Bubastis
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Per-Bast ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Egyptian mythology ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
seated cat
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woman with a cat head ⓘ woman with a lioness head ⓘ |
| domain |
childbirth
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dance ⓘ domesticity ⓘ fertility ⓘ joy ⓘ music ⓘ pregnancy ⓘ protection ⓘ sexuality ⓘ warfare ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
daughter of Ra
ⓘ
sometimes mother of Maahes ⓘ sometimes wife of Ptah ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bastet
ⓘ
Bastet (Greek form) ⓘ
linked to:
Bastet
Ubaste ⓘ |
| role |
goddess of cats
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guardian against evil spirits ⓘ household protector ⓘ protective goddess ⓘ protector of children ⓘ protector of women ⓘ |
| symbol |
aegis with lioness or cat head
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ankh ⓘ cat figurine ⓘ sistrum ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod |
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
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New Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ Old Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ Ptolemaic period ⓘ |
| worshipPractice |
festivals at Bubastis
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mummification of cats in her honor ⓘ |
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: Bast Description of subject: Bast is a feline-headed goddess from ancient Egyptian mythology, often associated with protection, warfare, and later domesticity and fertility.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bast
linked to: Bast