Sabazios
E309423
Sabazios is an ancient Thracian-Phrygian sky and horseman god later associated with Zeus and Dionysus in Greco-Roman religion.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sabazios canonical | 5 |
| Jupiter Sabazius | 1 |
| Zeus Sabazios | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2907925 — 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: Sabazios Context triple: [Phrygia, notableDeity, Sabazios]
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A.
Dionysos
Dionysos is a suburban town in the northeastern part of the Athens metropolitan area in Greece, known for its scenic setting on the slopes of Mount Pentelicus.
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B.
Astakos
Astakos is a coastal town in western Greece known as a regional port and ferry hub on the Ionian Sea.
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C.
Baal
Baal is a 1918 expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that follows the amoral, self-destructive life of a bohemian poet.
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D.
Baal
Baal is a prominent ancient Near Eastern storm and fertility god widely worshipped across Phoenician and Canaanite cultures.
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E.
Dionysus
Dionysus is the ancient Greek god of wine, ecstasy, theater, and ritual madness, often linked to mystery cults and ecstatic worship.
- 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: Sabazios Target entity description: Sabazios is an ancient Thracian-Phrygian sky and horseman god later associated with Zeus and Dionysus in Greco-Roman religion.
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A.
Dionysos
Dionysos is a suburban town in the northeastern part of the Athens metropolitan area in Greece, known for its scenic setting on the slopes of Mount Pentelicus.
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B.
Astakos
Astakos is a coastal town in western Greece known as a regional port and ferry hub on the Ionian Sea.
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C.
Baal
Baal is a 1918 expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that follows the amoral, self-destructive life of a bohemian poet.
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D.
Baal
Baal is a prominent ancient Near Eastern storm and fertility god widely worshipped across Phoenician and Canaanite cultures.
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E.
Dionysus
Dionysus is the ancient Greek god of wine, ecstasy, theater, and ritual madness, often linked to mystery cults and ecstatic worship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Phrygian deity
ⓘ
Thracian deity ⓘ deity ⓘ horseman god ⓘ sky god ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
fertility
ⓘ
rebirth ⓘ |
| associatedCult | Dionysian cult ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dionysus
ⓘ
Jupiter ⓘ Zeus ⓘ |
| cultType | mystery cult ⓘ |
| culture |
Phrygian
ⓘ
Thracian ⓘ
linked to:
Thracians
|
| depictedAs |
god holding a staff
ⓘ
rider on horseback ⓘ |
| domain |
sky
ⓘ
thunder ⓘ weather ⓘ |
| equatedWith |
Jupiter Sabazius
ⓘ
linked to:
Sabazios
Zeus Sabazios ⓘ
linked to:
Sabazios
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
chthonic aspects
ⓘ
itinerant horseman ⓘ protector deity ⓘ |
| iconographicElement |
eagle
ⓘ
pinecone ⓘ raised right hand ⓘ serpents on hand ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Phrygian
ⓘ
Thracian ⓘ |
| religion |
Greco-Roman religion
ⓘ
linked to:
Greco-Roman paganism
Phrygian religion ⓘ
linked to:
Anatolian paganism
Thracian religion ⓘ
linked to:
Thracian mythology
|
| ritualObject |
bronze hand of Sabazios
ⓘ
votive hand with symbols ⓘ |
| spreadTo |
Hellenistic world
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellenistic period
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| symbol |
horse
ⓘ
rider ⓘ serpent ⓘ |
| timePeriod | ancient period ⓘ |
| worshipedIn |
Greece
ⓘ
Macedonia ⓘ
linked to:
Macedonia region
Phrygia ⓘ Rome ⓘ Thrace ⓘ |
| worshipPractice |
ecstatic rites
ⓘ
processions ⓘ |
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: Sabazios Description of subject: Sabazios is an ancient Thracian-Phrygian sky and horseman god later associated with Zeus and Dionysus in Greco-Roman religion.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sabazios
linked to: Sabazios