Taranga
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Taranga is a figure in Polynesian mythology known as the mother of the culture hero and demigod Māui.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taranga canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3692401 — 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: Taranga Context triple: [Māui, parent, Taranga]
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A.
Tangara
Tangara is a genus of brightly colored Neotropical tanagers known for their diverse plumage patterns and widespread presence in Central and South American forests.
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B.
Ventilago
Ventilago is a genus of flowering plants, often woody climbers, belonging to the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae and found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions.
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C.
Safari Song
"Safari Song" is a hard rock track by American rock band Greta Van Fleet, known for its retro, Led Zeppelin-inspired sound and powerful vocals.
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D.
Furaha
Furaha is an individual known primarily as the child of Fifi.
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E.
Zang Tumb Tuum
Zang Tumb Tuum is a 1914 Futurist sound-poetry work by Italian artist F.T. Marinetti, notable for its experimental typographic layout and onomatopoeic evocation of modern warfare.
- 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: Taranga Target entity description: Taranga is a figure in Polynesian mythology known as the mother of the culture hero and demigod Māui.
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A.
Tangara
Tangara is a genus of brightly colored Neotropical tanagers known for their diverse plumage patterns and widespread presence in Central and South American forests.
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B.
Ventilago
Ventilago is a genus of flowering plants, often woody climbers, belonging to the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae and found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions.
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C.
Safari Song
"Safari Song" is a hard rock track by American rock band Greta Van Fleet, known for its retro, Led Zeppelin-inspired sound and powerful vocals.
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D.
Furaha
Furaha is an individual known primarily as the child of Fifi.
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E.
Zang Tumb Tuum
Zang Tumb Tuum is a 1914 Futurist sound-poetry work by Italian artist F.T. Marinetti, notable for its experimental typographic layout and onomatopoeic evocation of modern warfare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polynesian mythological figure
ⓘ
character in Māori mythology ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Māui cycle of stories
ⓘ
linked to:
Māui (Polynesian demigod)
Māui fishing up the islands narrative ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
demigod Māui
ⓘ
linked to:
Māui (Polynesian demigod)
|
| child |
Māui
ⓘ
linked to:
Māui (Polynesian demigod)
|
| cosmicAssociation | human world ⓘ |
| culture |
Māori
ⓘ
Polynesian ⓘ |
| epithet | mother of the culture hero Māui ⓘ |
| familyRole |
mother
ⓘ
wife ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasOffspringType | demigod ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the mother of Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga ⓘ |
| knownFrom | oral tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Māori language ⓘ |
| mythology |
Māori mythology
ⓘ
Polynesian mythology ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | possibly "strip of land" or "shore" in Māori ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
ancestral mother
ⓘ
human mother of a demigod ⓘ |
| ontologyType | fictional human ⓘ |
| parentOf | Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga ⓘ |
| region |
Aotearoa (New Zealand)
ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand
|
| religiousContext | traditional Polynesian religion ⓘ |
| role | mother of Māui ⓘ |
| sourceType | mythic narrative ⓘ |
| spouse | Makeatutara ⓘ |
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: Taranga Description of subject: Taranga is a figure in Polynesian mythology known as the mother of the culture hero and demigod Māui.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Māui (Polynesian demigod)