Wadjet
E24038
Wadjet is an ancient Egyptian cobra goddess associated with royal protection, kingship, and the land of Lower Egypt.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wadjet canonical | 15 |
| cobra goddess Wadjet | 3 |
| Per-Wadjet | 2 |
| Egyptian goddess Wadjet as cobra | 1 |
| Lady of Lower Egypt | 1 |
| She who sees Horus and Seth | 1 |
| Ta-Mehyt | 1 |
| Two Ladies (Wadjet and Nekhbet) | 1 |
| Uraeus | 1 |
| goddess Wadjet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T190469 — 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: Wadjet Context triple: [Lower Egypt, hasDeity, Wadjet]
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A.
Isis
Isis is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with magic, motherhood, healing, and protection, widely venerated throughout Egypt and the Greco-Roman world.
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B.
Qena
Qena is a city in Upper Egypt on the east bank of the Nile, known as a regional administrative center and gateway to nearby ancient sites such as Dendera.
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C.
Horus of Kubban
Horus of Kubban is a local form of the ancient Egyptian god Horus venerated in the Nubian region near Kubban, associated with kingship and protection.
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D.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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E.
Leda
Leda is a figure in Greek mythology, a Spartan queen best known as the mother of Helen of Troy and the Dioscuri after being seduced by Zeus.
- 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: Wadjet Target entity description: Wadjet is an ancient Egyptian cobra goddess associated with royal protection, kingship, and the land of Lower Egypt.
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A.
Isis
Isis is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with magic, motherhood, healing, and protection, widely venerated throughout Egypt and the Greco-Roman world.
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B.
Qena
Qena is a city in Upper Egypt on the east bank of the Nile, known as a regional administrative center and gateway to nearby ancient sites such as Dendera.
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C.
Horus of Kubban
Horus of Kubban is a local form of the ancient Egyptian god Horus venerated in the Nubian region near Kubban, associated with kingship and protection.
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D.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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E.
Leda
Leda is a figure in Greek mythology, a Spartan queen best known as the mother of Helen of Troy and the Dioscuri after being seduced by Zeus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Egyptian goddess
ⓘ
cobra goddess ⓘ protective deity ⓘ |
| appearsOn |
Double Crown of Egypt
ⓘ
royal crown of Lower Egypt ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Eye of Horus symbolism
ⓘ
Lower Egypt ⓘ Nekhbet ⓘ
linked to:
vulture goddess Nekhbet
Nile Delta marshes ⓘ kingship ⓘ papyrus plants ⓘ royal protection ⓘ |
| colorAssociation | green ⓘ |
| cultCenter |
Buto in the Nile Delta
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Egypt
|
| culture | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
cobra
ⓘ
cobra with a woman’s head ⓘ woman with a cobra head ⓘ |
| domain | Lower Egypt ⓘ |
| elementAssociation | sun ⓘ |
| forms | Two Ladies ⓘ |
| function |
spits fire at enemies of the king
ⓘ
wards off chaos ⓘ |
| pairedWith |
Nekhbet
ⓘ
linked to:
vulture goddess Nekhbet
|
| protects |
body of the deceased king in funerary contexts
ⓘ
throne of Egypt ⓘ |
| role |
guardian of childbirth
ⓘ
protector of the king ⓘ solar eye goddess ⓘ tutelary deity of Lower Egypt ⓘ |
| symbol |
cobra
ⓘ
rearing cobra ⓘ uraeus ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
ⓘ
linked to:
Early Dynastic Egypt
Middle Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ New Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ Old Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ Predynastic Egypt ⓘ Ptolemaic Period of Egypt ⓘ
linked to:
Ptolemaic Kingdom
|
| title |
Eye of Ra
ⓘ
Lady of Lower Egypt ⓘ
linked to:
Wadjet
The Green One ⓘ |
| wornOn | forehead of the pharaoh ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
inhabitants of Lower Egypt
ⓘ
pharaohs of Egypt ⓘ |
| worshipPlace |
Buto
ⓘ
Per-Wadjet ⓘ
linked to:
Wadjet
|
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: Wadjet Description of subject: Wadjet is an ancient Egyptian cobra goddess associated with royal protection, kingship, and the land of Lower Egypt.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wadjet
linked to: Wadjet
subject linked to:
vulture goddess Nekhbet
linked to: Wadjet
linked to: Wadjet
linked to: Wadjet
linked to: Wadjet
linked to: Wadjet
linked to: Wadjet
linked to: Wadjet