Sherawali
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Sherawali is a revered Hindu goddess form of Durga, worshipped especially in North India as the lion-riding mother deity who destroys evil and protects her devotees.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherawali canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4614791 — 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: Sherawali Context triple: [Mata, isHonorificFor, Sherawali]
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A.
Tareeno
Tareeno is an alternative name for Wanetsi, an Eastern Iranian language closely related to Pashto and spoken primarily in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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B.
Ranchipur
Ranchipur is the fictional Indian princely city that serves as the central backdrop for Louis Bromfield’s novel and its film adaptation "The Rains Came."
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C.
Palashi
Palashi is a town in West Bengal, India, historically renowned as the site of the pivotal 1757 Battle of Plassey that marked the beginning of major British colonial dominance in India.
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D.
Yannai
Yannai is another name for Alexander Jannaeus, a Hasmonean king of Judea and high priest who ruled in the early 1st century BCE.
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E.
Bang-e-Dara
Bang-e-Dara is a celebrated Urdu poetry collection by philosopher-poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal that traces his intellectual and spiritual evolution and played a key role in inspiring Muslim political consciousness in South Asia.
- 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: Sherawali Target entity description: Sherawali is a revered Hindu goddess form of Durga, worshipped especially in North India as the lion-riding mother deity who destroys evil and protects her devotees.
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A.
Tareeno
Tareeno is an alternative name for Wanetsi, an Eastern Iranian language closely related to Pashto and spoken primarily in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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B.
Ranchipur
Ranchipur is the fictional Indian princely city that serves as the central backdrop for Louis Bromfield’s novel and its film adaptation "The Rains Came."
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C.
Palashi
Palashi is a town in West Bengal, India, historically renowned as the site of the pivotal 1757 Battle of Plassey that marked the beginning of major British colonial dominance in India.
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D.
Yannai
Yannai is another name for Alexander Jannaeus, a Hasmonean king of Judea and high priest who ruled in the early 1st century BCE.
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E.
Bang-e-Dara
Bang-e-Dara is a celebrated Urdu poetry collection by philosopher-poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal that traces his intellectual and spiritual evolution and played a key role in inspiring Muslim political consciousness in South Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu goddess
ⓘ
form of Durga ⓘ |
| alternativeNameOf |
Durga Mata
ⓘ
linked to:
Goddess Durga
Vaishno Devi ⓘ
linked to:
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine
|
| associatedAnimal | lion ⓘ |
| associatedConcept | Shaktism ⓘ |
| associatedFestival |
Durga Puja
ⓘ
Navratri ⓘ
linked to:
Navaratri
|
| associatedVirtue |
courage
ⓘ
devotion ⓘ righteousness ⓘ |
| cosmicFunction | upholder of dharma ⓘ |
| culturalRegion |
Hindi-speaking regions
ⓘ
Punjabi-speaking regions ⓘ |
| deityType |
Shakti
ⓘ
linked to:
Shaktas
|
| devoteeRelationship | seen as divine mother ⓘ |
| devoteesCall | Maa Sherawali ⓘ |
| devotionalGenre |
aartis
ⓘ
bhajans ⓘ |
| epithetOf |
Durga
ⓘ
linked to:
Goddess Durga
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
multiple arms
ⓘ
weapons in hands ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hindi ⓘ |
| moralFunction |
giver of boons
ⓘ
remover of obstacles ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | the lion-riding one ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| rides | lion ⓘ |
| role |
destroyer of evil
ⓘ
protector of devotees ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
motherly compassion
ⓘ
protection ⓘ victory of good over evil ⓘ |
| title |
Maa
ⓘ
Sherawali Mata ⓘ |
| weapon |
discus
ⓘ
sword ⓘ trident ⓘ |
| worshippedAs |
mother goddess
ⓘ
protector deity ⓘ |
| worshipPlace | temple ⓘ |
| worshipPractice |
lighting lamps
ⓘ
offering of prayers ⓘ singing hymns ⓘ |
| worshipRegion |
India
ⓘ
North India ⓘ
linked to:
northern India
|
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: Sherawali Description of subject: Sherawali is a revered Hindu goddess form of Durga, worshipped especially in North India as the lion-riding mother deity who destroys evil and protects her devotees.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.