Oba
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Oba is a Yoruba river orisha revered as one of the wives of the thunder god Shango, associated with marital fidelity, sacrifice, and emotional resilience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oba canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2583603 — 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: Oba Context triple: [Shango, spouse, Oba]
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A.
Obihiro
Obihiro is a mid-sized city in eastern Hokkaido, Japan, known for its agricultural production, horse racing, and cold, snowy winters.
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B.
Oghi
Oghi is a town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, known as a local administrative and commercial center within the Hazara region.
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C.
Aobadai
Aobadai is a residential and commercial neighborhood in Meguro, Tokyo, known for its upscale apartments, cafes, and convenient access to central Tokyo.
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D.
Kanuma
Kanuma is a regional harvest festival celebrated mainly in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as part of the multi-day Makar Sankranti festivities, focusing on cattle worship and agricultural prosperity.
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E.
Obin
Obin is a surname most notably associated with Haitian painter Philomé Obin and his family of influential artists.
- 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: Oba Target entity description: Oba is a Yoruba river orisha revered as one of the wives of the thunder god Shango, associated with marital fidelity, sacrifice, and emotional resilience.
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A.
Obihiro
Obihiro is a mid-sized city in eastern Hokkaido, Japan, known for its agricultural production, horse racing, and cold, snowy winters.
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B.
Oghi
Oghi is a town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, known as a local administrative and commercial center within the Hazara region.
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C.
Aobadai
Aobadai is a residential and commercial neighborhood in Meguro, Tokyo, known for its upscale apartments, cafes, and convenient access to central Tokyo.
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D.
Kanuma
Kanuma is a regional harvest festival celebrated mainly in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as part of the multi-day Makar Sankranti festivities, focusing on cattle worship and agricultural prosperity.
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E.
Obin
Obin is a surname most notably associated with Haitian painter Philomé Obin and his family of influential artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yoruba deity
ⓘ
orisha ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
devotion
ⓘ
domestic life ⓘ emotional resilience ⓘ endurance ⓘ loyalty ⓘ marital fidelity ⓘ marriage ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ self‑sacrifice ⓘ suffering ⓘ |
| color |
brown
ⓘ
pink ⓘ red ⓘ |
| culture | Yoruba religion ⓘ |
| domain | river ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasMyth |
rivalry with Oshun
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rivalry with Oya ⓘ story of cutting off her ear to please Shango ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
emotional strength
ⓘ
faithfulness ⓘ persistence ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole |
river goddess
ⓘ
wife of Shango ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Oshun
ⓘ
Oya ⓘ |
| patronOf |
married women
ⓘ
those enduring emotional pain ⓘ wives ⓘ women in difficult marriages ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Ifá
ⓘ
linked to:
Ifa
Orisha worship ⓘ |
| ritualAssociation |
offerings for stable marriage
ⓘ
rituals for emotional healing ⓘ |
| spouse | Shango ⓘ |
| symbol |
cut ear
ⓘ
headscarf ⓘ river water ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Afro‑diasporic religions
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Benin ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Candomblé ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ Santería ⓘ |
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: Oba Description of subject: Oba is a Yoruba river orisha revered as one of the wives of the thunder god Shango, associated with marital fidelity, sacrifice, and emotional resilience.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.