Tara
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Tara is a revered Buddhist goddess associated with compassion and protection, widely worshipped across South and Southeast Asia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tara canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4178109 — 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: Tara Context triple: [Kalasan inscription, dedicatedTo, Tara]
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A.
Tara
Tara is a female given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often associated with notable figures such as Olympic figure skater Tara Lipinski.
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B.
Tara
Tara is an ancient ceremonial and royal site in County Meath, Ireland, traditionally regarded as the seat of the High Kings of Ireland and a major center of Gaelic spiritual and political life.
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C.
Tamina
The Tamina is a river in eastern Switzerland known for flowing through the deep Tamina Gorge before joining the Alpine Rhine.
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D.
Teressa
Teressa is a Nicobarese language variety spoken by the indigenous community on Teressa Island in India’s Nicobar archipelago.
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E.
Tirah
Tirah is a rugged mountainous region in present-day Pakistan historically known as a key theater of British military operations during the North-West Frontier campaigns.
- 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: Tara Target entity description: Tara is a revered Buddhist goddess associated with compassion and protection, widely worshipped across South and Southeast Asia.
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A.
Tara
Tara is a female given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often associated with notable figures such as Olympic figure skater Tara Lipinski.
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B.
Tara
Tara is an ancient ceremonial and royal site in County Meath, Ireland, traditionally regarded as the seat of the High Kings of Ireland and a major center of Gaelic spiritual and political life.
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C.
Tamina
The Tamina is a river in eastern Switzerland known for flowing through the deep Tamina Gorge before joining the Alpine Rhine.
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D.
Teressa
Teressa is a Nicobarese language variety spoken by the indigenous community on Teressa Island in India’s Nicobar archipelago.
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E.
Tirah
Tirah is a rugged mountainous region in present-day Pakistan historically known as a key theater of British military operations during the North-West Frontier campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist deity
ⓘ
goddess ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Avalokiteshvara
ⓘ
linked to:
Avalokiteśvara
bodhisattvas ⓘ compassion practices ⓘ healing ⓘ protection rituals ⓘ travel safety ⓘ |
| considered |
female bodhisattva
ⓘ
mother of liberation ⓘ |
| depictedWith |
crown
ⓘ
jewels ⓘ lotus ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
compassion
ⓘ
protection ⓘ |
| hasForm |
Black Tara
ⓘ
linked to:
Buddhist bodhisattva Tara
Blue Tara ⓘ Green Tara ⓘ
linked to:
Buddhist bodhisattva Tara
Red Tara ⓘ
linked to:
Buddhist bodhisattva Tara
White Tara ⓘ
linked to:
Buddhist bodhisattva Tara
Yellow Tara ⓘ |
| hasMantra | Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha ⓘ |
| iconographicColor |
green
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| practicedThrough |
mantra recitation
ⓘ
sadhana ⓘ visualization practices ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| role |
granting longevity
ⓘ
granting prosperity ⓘ protector from dangers ⓘ savior from fears ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
enlightened activity
ⓘ
fearlessness ⓘ swift compassion ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Mongolian Buddhism
ⓘ
Nepalese Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Newar Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ Vajrayana Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Vajrayana
|
| worshippedBy |
Bhutanese
ⓘ
Indian Buddhists ⓘ Mongolians ⓘ
linked to:
Mongol
Nepalis ⓘ Sri Lankan Buddhists ⓘ
linked to:
Sinhalese people
Tibetans ⓘ
linked to:
Tibetan people
|
| worshippedIn |
South Asia
ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ |
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: Tara Description of subject: Tara is a revered Buddhist goddess associated with compassion and protection, widely worshipped across South and Southeast Asia.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.