Tagaloa
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Tagaloa is a major creator and sky god in Polynesian mythology, especially revered in Samoan and other Western Polynesian traditions.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tangaloa | 2 |
| Tagaloa canonical | 1 |
| Tagaloa-lagi | 1 |
| Tangaloa Tufunga | 1 |
| Tangaloa ʻAtulongolongo | 1 |
| Tangaloa ʻEiki | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4086233 — 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: Tagaloa Context triple: [Polynesian indigenous religions, hasDeity, Tagaloa]
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A.
Navua
Navua is a small town on the southern coast of Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu, known for its river, surrounding rainforest, and adventure tourism activities.
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B.
Pallini
Pallini is a suburban town in the Athens metropolitan area of Greece that serves as an administrative and residential hub in East Attica.
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C.
Koa
Koa is a lightweight, modern Node.js web framework designed by the creators of Express to provide a more expressive and robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
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D.
Vili
Vili is a Norse god from Germanic mythology, known as one of Odin’s brothers who helped create the world and humanity.
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E.
Honu ika Moana
Honu ika Moana is a family-friendly multi-person water slide attraction at Universal’s Volcano Bay water theme park in Orlando, Florida.
- 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: Tagaloa Target entity description: Tagaloa is a major creator and sky god in Polynesian mythology, especially revered in Samoan and other Western Polynesian traditions.
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A.
Navua
Navua is a small town on the southern coast of Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu, known for its river, surrounding rainforest, and adventure tourism activities.
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B.
Pallini
Pallini is a suburban town in the Athens metropolitan area of Greece that serves as an administrative and residential hub in East Attica.
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C.
Koa
Koa is a lightweight, modern Node.js web framework designed by the creators of Express to provide a more expressive and robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
-
D.
Vili
Vili is a Norse god from Germanic mythology, known as one of Odin’s brothers who helped create the world and humanity.
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E.
Honu ika Moana
Honu ika Moana is a family-friendly multi-person water slide attraction at Universal’s Volcano Bay water theme park in Orlando, Florida.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polynesian deity
ⓘ
creator god ⓘ deity ⓘ sky god ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
fishing
ⓘ
heaven ⓘ navigation ⓘ the ocean ⓘ |
| category |
Polynesian gods
ⓘ
creator gods ⓘ sky and weather gods ⓘ |
| cosmologicalStatus |
primordial being
ⓘ
supreme god in some traditions ⓘ |
| created |
humans in some Polynesian myths
ⓘ
islands in some Polynesian myths ⓘ |
| domain |
creation
ⓘ
sea ⓘ sky ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasVariantName |
Tagaloa-lagi
ⓘ
linked to:
Tagaloa
Tangaloa ⓘ
linked to:
Tagaloa
Tangaroa ⓘ |
| influencedBy | shared Polynesian religious concepts ⓘ |
| influences | later Polynesian religious interpretations ⓘ |
| mythologicalCycle |
Samoan creation myths
ⓘ
Tongan creation myths ⓘ |
| positionInPantheon | chief god in some Western Polynesian traditions ⓘ |
| religion |
Polynesian mythology
ⓘ
Samoan mythology ⓘ Tongan mythology ⓘ Western Polynesian mythology ⓘ |
| role |
creator of the world
ⓘ
culture hero ⓘ sky ruler ⓘ |
| worshipedIn |
Fiji
ⓘ
Samoa ⓘ Tonga ⓘ Western Polynesia ⓘ |
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: Tagaloa Description of subject: Tagaloa is a major creator and sky god in Polynesian mythology, especially revered in Samoan and other Western Polynesian traditions.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tagaloa
linked to: Tagaloa
linked to: Tagaloa
linked to: Tagaloa
linked to: Tagaloa
linked to: Tagaloa