Ahura Mazda
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Ahura Mazda is the supreme god of wisdom, light, and goodness in Zoroastrianism, revered as the creator and highest divine being.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ahura Mazda canonical | 25 |
| Ahura Mazda in some comparative studies | 1 |
| Ohrmazd | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3973643 — 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: Ahura Mazda Context triple: [Avesta, centralDeity, Ahura Mazda]
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A.
Zoroaster
Zoroaster was an ancient Iranian prophet and religious reformer who founded Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions.
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B.
Chemosh
Chemosh is the chief national god of the ancient Moabites, often linked with war, conquest, and sometimes child sacrifice in Near Eastern religious traditions.
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C.
Eledumare
Eledumare is the supreme creator deity in Yoruba religion, revered as the all-powerful source of existence and ultimate authority over the universe.
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D.
Arimanes
Arimanes is a powerful supernatural spirit or ruler of the infernal realms who appears in Lord Byron’s dramatic poem "Manfred" as a dark, commanding presence.
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E.
Oshtur
Oshtur is a powerful cosmic elder goddess in Marvel Comics, known as one of the Vishanti who grants mystical power to sorcerers like Doctor Strange.
- 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: Ahura Mazda Target entity description: Ahura Mazda is the supreme god of wisdom, light, and goodness in Zoroastrianism, revered as the creator and highest divine being.
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A.
Zoroaster
Zoroaster was an ancient Iranian prophet and religious reformer who founded Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions.
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B.
Chemosh
Chemosh is the chief national god of the ancient Moabites, often linked with war, conquest, and sometimes child sacrifice in Near Eastern religious traditions.
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C.
Eledumare
Eledumare is the supreme creator deity in Yoruba religion, revered as the all-powerful source of existence and ultimate authority over the universe.
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D.
Arimanes
Arimanes is a powerful supernatural spirit or ruler of the infernal realms who appears in Lord Byron’s dramatic poem "Manfred" as a dark, commanding presence.
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E.
Oshtur
Oshtur is a powerful cosmic elder goddess in Marvel Comics, known as one of the Vishanti who grants mystical power to sorcerers like Doctor Strange.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Zoroastrian deity
ⓘ
creator deity ⓘ deity ⓘ supreme god ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cosmic order
ⓘ
order ⓘ righteousness ⓘ truth ⓘ |
| centralText | Avesta ⓘ |
| centralTextSection |
Gathas
ⓘ
linked to:
Avesta
|
| consideredBy | Zoroaster as the one supreme god ⓘ |
| cosmicFunction |
creator of all that is good
ⓘ
source of asha ⓘ upholder of moral order ⓘ |
| culture | Iranian ⓘ |
| domain | heaven ⓘ |
| ethicalIdeal |
good deeds
ⓘ
good thoughts ⓘ good words ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAspect | Amesha Spentas ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Lord of Wisdom ⓘ |
| influenced | later Abrahamic conceptions of a single supreme god ⓘ |
| inscribedIn | Behistun Inscription ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Avestan
ⓘ
linked to:
Avestan language
|
| meaningOfName | Wise Lord ⓘ |
| mentionedBy |
Darius I
ⓘ
linked to:
Darius I of Persia
Xerxes I ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | good ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Angra Mainyu ⓘ |
| opposes | druj ⓘ |
| otherName |
Hormazd
ⓘ
Ohrmazd ⓘ
linked to:
Ahura Mazda
Ormazd ⓘ
linked to:
Angra Mainyu
|
| religion | Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
| revealedTo | Zoroaster ⓘ |
| role |
creator of the universe
ⓘ
god of goodness ⓘ god of light ⓘ god of wisdom ⓘ supreme god of Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
| symbolicAssociation |
fire
ⓘ
sun ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfMajorCult | Achaemenid Empire ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
lord of light
ⓘ
source of wisdom ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
ancient Persia
ⓘ
linked to:
Persia
modern Zoroastrian communities ⓘ |
| worshipPractice | invoked in daily prayers by Zoroastrians ⓘ |
| worshipType | monotheistic focus in Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
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: Ahura Mazda Description of subject: Ahura Mazda is the supreme god of wisdom, light, and goodness in Zoroastrianism, revered as the creator and highest divine being.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
legendary Pishdadian dynasty
subject linked to:
Hindu god Varuna
linked to: Ahura Mazda
linked to: Ahura Mazda
subject linked to:
asha