Goddess Durga
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Goddess Durga is a principal Hindu deity revered as a fierce yet protective mother goddess who embodies divine strength, righteousness, and the destruction of evil.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durga | 14 |
| Goddess Durga canonical | 5 |
| Goddess Kanaka Durga | 2 |
| Goddess Bhagawati | 1 |
| Vindhyavasini as a form of Durga | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6197016 — 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: Goddess Durga Context triple: [Durga Mandir (Varanasi), dedicatedTo, Goddess Durga]
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A.
Durga Rani
Durga Rani, better known as Durga Bhabhi, was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter associated with the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association during the struggle against British rule.
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B.
Bhagavati Devi
Bhagavati Devi was the pious mother of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, a prominent Gaudiya Vaishnava acharya and founder of the Gaudiya Math.
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C.
Goddess Gauri
Goddess Gauri is a revered form of Parvati in Hinduism, symbolizing marital bliss, fertility, and devotion, and is especially worshipped by women in North India.
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D.
Bhudevi
Bhudevi is the Hindu earth goddess and consort of Lord Vishnu, revered as the personification of the fertile, nurturing aspects of the Earth.
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E.
Goddess Sharada
Goddess Sharada is a revered Hindu deity of wisdom, learning, and the arts, venerated as a form of Saraswati and especially worshipped at the Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Karnataka, India.
- 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: Goddess Durga Target entity description: Goddess Durga is a principal Hindu deity revered as a fierce yet protective mother goddess who embodies divine strength, righteousness, and the destruction of evil.
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A.
Durga Rani
Durga Rani, better known as Durga Bhabhi, was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter associated with the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association during the struggle against British rule.
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B.
Bhagavati Devi
Bhagavati Devi was the pious mother of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, a prominent Gaudiya Vaishnava acharya and founder of the Gaudiya Math.
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C.
Goddess Gauri
Goddess Gauri is a revered form of Parvati in Hinduism, symbolizing marital bliss, fertility, and devotion, and is especially worshipped by women in North India.
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D.
Bhudevi
Bhudevi is the Hindu earth goddess and consort of Lord Vishnu, revered as the personification of the fertile, nurturing aspects of the Earth.
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E.
Goddess Sharada
Goddess Sharada is a revered Hindu deity of wisdom, learning, and the arts, venerated as a form of Saraswati and especially worshipped at the Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Karnataka, India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Hindu goddess ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
motherhood
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power ⓘ victory of good over evil ⓘ war ⓘ weapons ⓘ |
| consort | Shiva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| embodies |
courage
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divine strength ⓘ protection ⓘ righteousness ⓘ shakti ⓘ |
| epithet |
Bhavani
NERFINISHED
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Chandi NERFINISHED ⓘ Jagadamba NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahadevi NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahishasuramardini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festival |
Durga Puja
NERFINISHED
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Navaratri NERFINISHED ⓘ Vijayadashami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formOf |
Adi Parashakti
NERFINISHED
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Parvati NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| iconography |
holding various weapons
ⓘ
multiple arms ⓘ riding a lion or tiger ⓘ |
| knownFor | slaying the buffalo demon Mahishasura ⓘ |
| mount |
lion
ⓘ
tiger ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| role |
destroyer of evil
ⓘ
mother goddess ⓘ protector of the righteous ⓘ warrior goddess ⓘ |
| scripture |
Devi Bhagavata Purana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Devi Mahatmya NERFINISHED ⓘ Markandeya Purana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbol |
feminine divine power
ⓘ
triumph of dharma ⓘ |
| weapon |
bow and arrow
ⓘ
discus ⓘ mace ⓘ sword ⓘ trident ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
Bangladesh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ Nepal NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ diaspora Hindu communities ⓘ |
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: Goddess Durga Description of subject: Goddess Durga is a principal Hindu deity revered as a fierce yet protective mother goddess who embodies divine strength, righteousness, and the destruction of evil.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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