Roman agricultural deity Occator
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Roman agricultural deity Occator is a minor god associated with harrowing and the preparation of fields for cultivation in ancient Roman religion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roman agricultural deity Occator canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5201880 — 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: Roman agricultural deity Occator Context triple: [Occator Crater, namedAfter, Roman agricultural deity Occator]
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A.
Pluto (Roman god of the underworld)
Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld and ruler of the realm of the dead, often associated with wealth and the riches found beneath the earth.
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B.
Mars Quirinus
Mars Quirinus is a Roman aspect of the god Mars associated with the civic and peaceful protection of the Roman state and its citizen-soldiers.
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C.
Jupiter (as Jupiter Ammon)
Jupiter Ammon is a syncretic deity combining the Roman god Jupiter with the ancient Egyptian god Amun, often depicted with ram’s horns and associated with kingship and oracular power.
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D.
Silvanus
Silvanus, also known as Silas, was an early Christian leader and missionary who accompanied the Apostle Paul on his journeys and is mentioned as a co-author or associate in several New Testament letters.
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E.
Hyginus
Hyginus was a Latin author and mythographer, traditionally identified as Gaius Julius Hyginus, known for compiling and preserving numerous Greek and Roman myths and celestial stories.
- 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: Roman agricultural deity Occator Target entity description: Roman agricultural deity Occator is a minor god associated with harrowing and the preparation of fields for cultivation in ancient Roman religion.
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A.
Pluto (Roman god of the underworld)
Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld and ruler of the realm of the dead, often associated with wealth and the riches found beneath the earth.
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B.
Mars Quirinus
Mars Quirinus is a Roman aspect of the god Mars associated with the civic and peaceful protection of the Roman state and its citizen-soldiers.
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C.
Jupiter (as Jupiter Ammon)
Jupiter Ammon is a syncretic deity combining the Roman god Jupiter with the ancient Egyptian god Amun, often depicted with ram’s horns and associated with kingship and oracular power.
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D.
Silvanus
Silvanus, also known as Silas, was an early Christian leader and missionary who accompanied the Apostle Paul on his journeys and is mentioned as a co-author or associate in several New Testament letters.
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E.
Hyginus
Hyginus was a Latin author and mythographer, traditionally identified as Gaius Julius Hyginus, known for compiling and preserving numerous Greek and Roman myths and celestial stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman deity
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agricultural deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture
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cultivation of land ⓘ harrowing ⓘ preparation of fields ⓘ |
| classification | minor Roman agricultural numen ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman religion ⓘ |
| domain |
field preparation
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soil cultivation ⓘ |
| epithet | deus occandi (god of harrowing) ⓘ |
| function |
to oversee harrowing of fields
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to prepare fields for sowing ⓘ |
| gender | male deity ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Roman agricultural religious tradition ⓘ |
| opposedTo | fallow or unworked land ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman system of specialized agricultural gods ⓘ |
| role | minor god of agricultural labor ⓘ |
| toolAssociation | harrow ⓘ |
| worshipContext | rural agricultural rites ⓘ |
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: Roman agricultural deity Occator Description of subject: Roman agricultural deity Occator is a minor god associated with harrowing and the preparation of fields for cultivation in ancient Roman religion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.