Aghora
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Aghora is one of the fierce, transformative aspects of Shiva in Hindu tradition, associated with destruction of ignorance and transcendence of fear and duality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aghora canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7525359 — 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: Aghora Context triple: [Pashupatinath Temple, facesOfLingam, Aghora]
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A.
Akrosh
Akrosh is an Indian film best known as a hard-hitting social drama written by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Vijay Tendulkar.
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B.
Bhyrappa
Bhyrappa is an Indian surname most prominently associated with S. L. Bhyrappa, a renowned Kannada novelist and philosopher.
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C.
Achoron
Achoron is an alternative name for Achamán, the supreme creator god in the traditional religion of the indigenous Guanche people of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
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D.
Agnanta
Agnanta is a traditional mountain village in the Tzoumerka region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, known for its natural beauty and stone-built architecture.
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E.
Mahakal
Mahakal is a fierce form of the Hindu god Shiva, revered as the timeless destroyer of evil and the presiding deity of the famous Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga temple in Ujjain.
- 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: Aghora Target entity description: Aghora is one of the fierce, transformative aspects of Shiva in Hindu tradition, associated with destruction of ignorance and transcendence of fear and duality.
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A.
Akrosh
Akrosh is an Indian film best known as a hard-hitting social drama written by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Vijay Tendulkar.
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B.
Bhyrappa
Bhyrappa is an Indian surname most prominently associated with S. L. Bhyrappa, a renowned Kannada novelist and philosopher.
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C.
Achoron
Achoron is an alternative name for Achamán, the supreme creator god in the traditional religion of the indigenous Guanche people of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
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D.
Agnanta
Agnanta is a traditional mountain village in the Tzoumerka region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, known for its natural beauty and stone-built architecture.
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E.
Mahakal
Mahakal is a fierce form of the Hindu god Shiva, revered as the timeless destroyer of evil and the presiding deity of the famous Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga temple in Ujjain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu deity aspect
ⓘ
aspect of Shiva ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Aghori ascetics
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linked to:
Sadhu
Shiva ⓘ acceptance of all aspects of reality ⓘ cremation grounds ⓘ death ⓘ destruction of ignorance ⓘ element of fire ⓘ fearlessness ⓘ liberation ⓘ non-dual awareness ⓘ smashana (cremation ground) ⓘ tamas transformed into wisdom ⓘ tantric practices ⓘ transcendence of duality ⓘ transcendence of fear ⓘ transcending taboos ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Ghora aspect of Shiva
ⓘ
linked to:
Forms of Shiva
|
| depictedAs |
adorned with skulls
ⓘ
dark-complexioned ⓘ surrounded by cremation ground imagery ⓘ with fierce expression ⓘ |
| direction | south ⓘ |
| etymology | a-ghora meaning not-terrible or beyond terror ⓘ |
| goalOfWorship |
destruction of inner impurities
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overcoming fear of death ⓘ realization of non-duality ⓘ |
| hasMantra | Aghora mantra (various tantric lineages) ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
fierce
ⓘ
transformative ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Shaivism ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Panchamukha Shiva aspects
ⓘ
linked to:
Forms of Shiva
five traditional faces of Shiva ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Aghora Shaiva tantra
ⓘ
linked to:
Shaiva Tantra
Aghora marga (path of Aghora) ⓘ
linked to:
Shambhavopaya (path of pure will)
|
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
compassion beyond conventional morality
ⓘ
destruction of ignorance ⓘ embrace of the impure as divine ⓘ transcendence of duality ⓘ transcendence of fear ⓘ |
| worshipContext |
cremation-ground sadhana
ⓘ
tantric rituals ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Aghori sadhus
ⓘ
linked to:
Sadhu
tantric practitioners ⓘ |
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: Aghora Description of subject: Aghora is one of the fierce, transformative aspects of Shiva in Hindu tradition, associated with destruction of ignorance and transcendence of fear and duality.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.