bobolian
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A bobolian is a traditional Kadazan-Dusun spiritual healer and ritual specialist who mediates between the human and spirit worlds in Sabah, Malaysia.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10268212 — 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: bobolian Context triple: [Kadazan-Dusun, traditionalHealer, bobolian]
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Bol
Bol is a coastal town on the southern coast of the Croatian island of Brač, known for its famous Zlatni Rat beach and tourism.
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BOL
BOL is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Bolivia.
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Bobowa
Bobowa is a small historic town in southern Poland known for its traditional bobbin lace-making and Jewish heritage.
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BOLI
BOLI is the Oregon state agency responsible for enforcing labor laws, protecting civil rights in employment and public accommodations, and promoting fair and lawful workplaces.
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Bo
Bo was an extinct indigenous language of the Great Andamanese people, once spoken in the Andaman Islands of 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: bobolian Target entity description: A bobolian is a traditional Kadazan-Dusun spiritual healer and ritual specialist who mediates between the human and spirit worlds in Sabah, Malaysia.
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A.
Bol
Bol is a coastal town on the southern coast of the Croatian island of Brač, known for its famous Zlatni Rat beach and tourism.
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B.
BOL
BOL is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Bolivia.
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C.
Bobowa
Bobowa is a small historic town in southern Poland known for its traditional bobbin lace-making and Jewish heritage.
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D.
BOLI
BOLI is the Oregon state agency responsible for enforcing labor laws, protecting civil rights in employment and public accommodations, and promoting fair and lawful workplaces.
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E.
Bo
Bo was an extinct indigenous language of the Great Andamanese people, once spoken in the Andaman Islands of India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ritual specialist
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shamanic practitioner ⓘ spiritual healer ⓘ traditional religious specialist ⓘ |
| aim |
ensuring health and prosperity of the community
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restoring spiritual harmony ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ancestor veneration
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harvest ceremonies ⓘ rice cultivation rituals ⓘ |
| ceremonialContext |
community festivals
ⓘ
field and agricultural sites ⓘ household rituals ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Borneo ⓘ |
| ethnicContext | Kadazan-Dusun ⓘ |
| function |
diagnosing spiritual causes of illness
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maintaining balance between humans and spirits ⓘ protecting community from misfortune ⓘ |
| gender | often female ⓘ |
| knowledge |
oral traditions
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ritual formulas ⓘ spirit world cosmology ⓘ |
| language |
Kadazan-Dusun languages
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linked to:
Kadazan Dusun language
|
| locatedIn | Sabah ⓘ |
| performs |
agricultural rituals
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healing rituals ⓘ life-cycle rituals ⓘ protective rituals ⓘ |
| practicedBy |
Kadazan-Dusun people
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linked to:
Kadazan-Dusun
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| recognizedAs | part of Kadazan-Dusun cultural heritage ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | indigenous Kadazan-Dusun belief system ⓘ |
| role |
conductor of traditional rituals
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healer of spiritual and ritual ailments ⓘ mediator between human and spirit worlds ⓘ |
| spiritInteraction |
appeasing spirits
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invoking spirits ⓘ negotiating with spirits ⓘ |
| status | respected community figure ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
decline of traditional beliefs
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modernization ⓘ religious conversion ⓘ |
| transmission |
apprenticeship
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inheritance within families ⓘ |
| uses |
chants
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offerings ⓘ prayers ⓘ ritual paraphernalia ⓘ sacrificial rituals ⓘ |
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: bobolian Description of subject: A bobolian is a traditional Kadazan-Dusun spiritual healer and ritual specialist who mediates between the human and spirit worlds in Sabah, Malaysia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: bobolian