Asase Yaa
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Asase Yaa is the Akan earth goddess associated with fertility, agriculture, and the moral order of the land in traditional Ghanaian religion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asase Yaa canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3329418 — 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: Asase Yaa Context triple: [Akan people, deity, Asase Yaa]
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A.
Shango
Shango is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the powerful god of thunder, lightning, and justice, often associated with kingship and drumming.
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B.
Elegguá
Elegguá is a major orisha in Afro-Cuban and Yoruba-derived religions, revered as the trickster guardian of crossroads, doors, and destiny who controls the opening and closing of all spiritual paths.
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C.
Oduduwa
Oduduwa is a revered primordial figure in Yoruba mythology, regarded as the progenitor of the Yoruba people and a key creator deity associated with the founding of Ile-Ife.
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D.
Yemoja
Yemoja is a major Yoruba water deity revered as a nurturing mother figure and protector associated with rivers, fertility, and the sea.
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E.
Oba Ozolua
Oba Ozolua was a powerful 15th–16th century ruler of the Kingdom of Benin, renowned for his military conquests and expansion of the empire’s influence in West Africa.
- 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: Asase Yaa Target entity description: Asase Yaa is the Akan earth goddess associated with fertility, agriculture, and the moral order of the land in traditional Ghanaian religion.
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A.
Shango
Shango is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the powerful god of thunder, lightning, and justice, often associated with kingship and drumming.
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B.
Elegguá
Elegguá is a major orisha in Afro-Cuban and Yoruba-derived religions, revered as the trickster guardian of crossroads, doors, and destiny who controls the opening and closing of all spiritual paths.
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C.
Oduduwa
Oduduwa is a revered primordial figure in Yoruba mythology, regarded as the progenitor of the Yoruba people and a key creator deity associated with the founding of Ile-Ife.
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D.
Yemoja
Yemoja is a major Yoruba water deity revered as a nurturing mother figure and protector associated with rivers, fertility, and the sea.
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E.
Oba Ozolua
Oba Ozolua was a powerful 15th–16th century ruler of the Kingdom of Benin, renowned for his military conquests and expansion of the empire’s influence in West Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Akan deity
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deity ⓘ earth goddess ⓘ goddess ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture
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ancestors ⓘ earth ⓘ fertility ⓘ land ⓘ moral order ⓘ oaths ⓘ truth ⓘ |
| consortOf | Nyame ⓘ |
| cosmologicalStatus | primordial deity ⓘ |
| culture | Akan people ⓘ |
| dayOfVeneration | Thursday ⓘ |
| domain |
fertility of soil
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growth of crops ⓘ prosperity of the community ⓘ |
| epithet |
Mother Earth
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Old Woman Earth ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Akan ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| importance | major deity in Akan pantheon ⓘ |
| moralAssociation |
honesty
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justice ⓘ social harmony ⓘ |
| moralFunction |
punisher of perjury
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witness to oaths ⓘ |
| parentOf | Akan deities ⓘ |
| religion |
Akan traditional religion
ⓘ
linked to:
Akan religion
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| role |
guardian of the land
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mother of the earth ⓘ protector of farmers ⓘ upholder of morality ⓘ |
| spouse | Nyame ⓘ |
| symbol |
earth
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farmland ⓘ fertile soil ⓘ |
| taboo | digging on her sacred day in some Akan traditions ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Ghana
ⓘ
Ivory Coast ⓘ
linked to:
Côte d'Ivoire
|
| worshipPractice |
farm rituals
ⓘ
libation pouring ⓘ offerings on the ground ⓘ |
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: Asase Yaa Description of subject: Asase Yaa is the Akan earth goddess associated with fertility, agriculture, and the moral order of the land in traditional Ghanaian religion.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.