Bastet
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Bastet is an ancient Egyptian goddess, often depicted as a lioness or cat, associated with home, fertility, music, and the protective, nurturing aspects of the sun.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bastet canonical | 44 |
| Per-Bastet | 3 |
| Bastet (Greek form) | 1 |
| Egyptian goddess Bastet | 1 |
| cat goddess Bastet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T190471 — 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: Bastet Context triple: [Lower Egypt, hasDeity, Bastet]
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A.
Wadjet
Wadjet is an ancient Egyptian cobra goddess associated with royal protection, kingship, and the land of Lower Egypt.
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B.
Neith
Neith is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with war, hunting, and weaving, often revered as a creator deity and protector of Lower Egypt.
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C.
Jacob Cats
Jacob Cats was a prominent 17th-century Dutch poet, jurist, and statesman, best known for his didactic moral verses and influential role in the Dutch Republic.
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D.
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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E.
Wilma the Wildcat
Wilma the Wildcat is one of the costumed feline mascots of the University of Arizona, known for appearing alongside Wilbur Wildcat at athletic events and school functions.
- 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: Bastet Target entity description: Bastet is an ancient Egyptian goddess, often depicted as a lioness or cat, associated with home, fertility, music, and the protective, nurturing aspects of the sun.
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A.
Wadjet
Wadjet is an ancient Egyptian cobra goddess associated with royal protection, kingship, and the land of Lower Egypt.
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B.
Neith
Neith is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with war, hunting, and weaving, often revered as a creator deity and protector of Lower Egypt.
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C.
Jacob Cats
Jacob Cats was a prominent 17th-century Dutch poet, jurist, and statesman, best known for his didactic moral verses and influential role in the Dutch Republic.
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D.
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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E.
Wilma the Wildcat
Wilma the Wildcat is one of the costumed feline mascots of the University of Arizona, known for appearing alongside Wilbur Wildcat at athletic events and school functions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Egyptian goddess
ⓘ
deity ⓘ |
| animalSacredTo | cat ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cats
ⓘ
childbirth ⓘ dance ⓘ domesticity ⓘ fertility ⓘ festivity ⓘ home ⓘ joy ⓘ lionesses ⓘ music ⓘ nurturing aspects of the sun ⓘ pregnancy ⓘ protection ⓘ solar deity ⓘ |
| child |
Mihos
ⓘ
Nefertum ⓘ
linked to:
Nefertem
|
| consort |
Atum
ⓘ
Ptah ⓘ |
| cultCenterIn | Lower Egypt ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
cat-headed woman
ⓘ
lioness-headed woman ⓘ seated cat ⓘ standing cat ⓘ |
| epithet |
Lady of Bubastis
ⓘ
Lady of Perfume ⓘ Lady of the East ⓘ She of the Ointment Jar ⓘ |
| festival |
Feast of Bubastis
ⓘ
linked to:
Bubastis
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| holds |
aegis with lioness head
ⓘ
ankh ⓘ sistrum ⓘ |
| linkedTo | Sekhmet as a more benign aspect ⓘ |
| majorCultCenter | Bubastis ⓘ |
| parent |
Atum
ⓘ
Ra ⓘ |
| religiousFunction |
protector against disease
ⓘ
protector against evil spirits ⓘ |
| role |
goddess of fertility
ⓘ
goddess of music and dance ⓘ protective solar goddess ⓘ protector of households ⓘ protector of women and children ⓘ |
| sibling |
Hathor
ⓘ
Maat ⓘ Sekhmet ⓘ Tefnut ⓘ |
| symbol |
cat
ⓘ
lioness ⓘ sistrum ⓘ solar disk ⓘ |
| worshipedIn | Egypt ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod |
Middle Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
New Kingdom ⓘ
linked to:
New Kingdom of Egypt
Old Kingdom ⓘ
linked to:
Old Kingdom of Egypt
Ptolemaic period ⓘ |
| worshipPractice | 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: Bastet Description of subject: Bastet is an ancient Egyptian goddess, often depicted as a lioness or cat, associated with home, fertility, music, and the protective, nurturing aspects of the sun.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bastet
linked to: Bastet
linked to: Bastet
linked to: Bastet
subject linked to:
grand temple of Bastet
subject linked to:
grand temple of Bastet
subject linked to:
grand temple of Bastet
linked to: Bastet
linked to: Bastet
subject linked to:
short story "Bastet"