Yema
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Yema are traditional religious specialists of the Limbu people who conduct rituals, communicate with spirits, and preserve indigenous spiritual practices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yema canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8871394 — 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: Yema Context triple: [Limbu people, traditionalReligionSpecialist, Yema]
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A.
Yoreme
Yoreme is the self-designation of the Mayo Indigenous people of northern Mexico, known for their rich cultural traditions, language, and ceremonial practices.
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B.
Yagon
Yagon is a coastal camping and recreation area within New South Wales’ Myall Lakes National Park, known for its beaches, dunes, and bushland setting.
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C.
Gomeisa
Gomeisa is the second-brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor, known as a hot, blue-white main-sequence star visible to the naked eye.
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D.
Yakhin
Yakhin is a variant form of the biblical name Jachin, traditionally associated with one of the two pillars of Solomon’s Temple.
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E.
Shamiya
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- 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: Yema Target entity description: Yema are traditional religious specialists of the Limbu people who conduct rituals, communicate with spirits, and preserve indigenous spiritual practices.
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A.
Yoreme
Yoreme is the self-designation of the Mayo Indigenous people of northern Mexico, known for their rich cultural traditions, language, and ceremonial practices.
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B.
Yagon
Yagon is a coastal camping and recreation area within New South Wales’ Myall Lakes National Park, known for its beaches, dunes, and bushland setting.
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C.
Gomeisa
Gomeisa is the second-brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor, known as a hot, blue-white main-sequence star visible to the naked eye.
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D.
Yakhin
Yakhin is a variant form of the biblical name Jachin, traditionally associated with one of the two pillars of Solomon’s Temple.
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E.
Shamiya
Shamiya is a residential district in Kuwait City known for its planned layout, community facilities, and central location within the capital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural role
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religious office ⓘ religious specialist ⓘ ritual practitioner ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion |
Kirat religion
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Limbu indigenous religion ⓘ |
| communicationMode |
chanting
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offerings to spirits ⓘ ritual recitation ⓘ trance ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
maintenance of customary ritual practices
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preservation of Limbu identity ⓘ transmission of Mundhum tradition ⓘ |
| ethnicContext | Limbu people ⓘ |
| geographicRegion |
Darjeeling region
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linked to:
Darjeeling region of West Bengal, India
Sikkim ⓘ eastern Nepal ⓘ |
| knowledgeType |
mythological narratives
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oral ritual knowledge ⓘ spirit lore ⓘ |
| languageContext | Limbu language ⓘ |
| performsRitualType |
agricultural rituals
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ancestral rites ⓘ funerary rituals ⓘ healing ceremonies ⓘ household rituals ⓘ |
| practicedBy | Limbu people ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
communicate with spirits
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conduct rituals ⓘ mediate between humans and spirits ⓘ perform healing rituals ⓘ perform life‑cycle rituals ⓘ perform protective rituals ⓘ preserve indigenous spiritual practices ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Kirat religious specialist
ⓘ
shaman ⓘ |
| religiousSphere | indigenous Himalayan religions ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Kirat Mundhum ⓘ |
| roleInCommunity |
advisor on spiritual matters
ⓘ
custodian of ritual knowledge ⓘ guardian of indigenous spirituality ⓘ ritual specialist for the Limbu community ⓘ |
| selectionOrTraining |
apprenticeship under senior Yema
ⓘ
initiation through ritual calling ⓘ |
| spiritDomain |
ancestral spirits
ⓘ
local deities ⓘ nature spirits ⓘ |
| usesSacredTextOrLore | Mundhum oral tradition ⓘ |
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: Yema Description of subject: Yema are traditional religious specialists of the Limbu people who conduct rituals, communicate with spirits, and preserve indigenous spiritual practices.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.