Avesta
E85589
The Avesta is the primary collection of sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism, containing hymns, liturgical texts, and religious teachings.
All labels observed (17)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avesta canonical | 45 |
| Gathas | 12 |
| Yashts | 10 |
| Khordeh Avesta | 3 |
| Younger Avesta | 3 |
| Book Pahlavi | 2 |
| Avesta (later Zoroastrian literature) | 1 |
| Bahram Yasht | 1 |
| Bundahishn | 1 |
| Farvardin Yasht | 1 |
| Gathas (interpretively) | 1 |
| Gathas of Zarathustra | 1 |
| Tir Yasht | 1 |
| Zend-Avesta | 1 |
| Zoroastrian Avesta | 1 |
| Zoroastrian law | 1 |
| Zoroastrian liturgy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T697246 — 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: Avesta Context triple: [Parsis, religiousText, Avesta]
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A.
Shahnameh
Shahnameh is an epic poem by Ferdowsi that recounts the mythological and historical past of Greater Iran and is considered one of the most important works of Persian literature.
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B.
Vedas
The Vedas are a collection of ancient sacred texts composed in Sanskrit that form the foundational spiritual and philosophical scriptures of Hinduism.
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C.
Sarbloh Granth
The Sarbloh Granth is a Sikh religious scripture traditionally attributed to Guru Gobind Singh and revered particularly within the Nihang Sikh tradition.
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D.
Rigveda
The Rigveda is the oldest of the four Vedas, a foundational collection of ancient Sanskrit hymns that form a core sacred text of Hinduism.
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E.
Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
- 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: Avesta Target entity description: The Avesta is the primary collection of sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism, containing hymns, liturgical texts, and religious teachings.
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A.
Shahnameh
Shahnameh is an epic poem by Ferdowsi that recounts the mythological and historical past of Greater Iran and is considered one of the most important works of Persian literature.
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B.
Vedas
The Vedas are a collection of ancient sacred texts composed in Sanskrit that form the foundational spiritual and philosophical scriptures of Hinduism.
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C.
Sarbloh Granth
The Sarbloh Granth is a Sikh religious scripture traditionally attributed to Guru Gobind Singh and revered particularly within the Nihang Sikh tradition.
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D.
Rigveda
The Rigveda is the oldest of the four Vedas, a foundational collection of ancient Sanskrit hymns that form a core sacred text of Hinduism.
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E.
Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Zoroastrian scripture
ⓘ
religious text collection ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Prophet Zoroaster
ⓘ
linked to:
Zoroaster
|
| centralDeity | Ahura Mazda ⓘ |
| contains |
hymns
ⓘ
liturgical texts ⓘ prayers ⓘ religious teachings ⓘ ritual instructions ⓘ |
| containsPart |
Gathas
ⓘ
linked to:
Avesta
|
| cosmicStruggleTheme | Ahura Mazda versus Angra Mainyu ⓘ |
| cosmologyTopic | dualism of good and evil ⓘ |
| eschatologyTopic |
final renovation of the world
ⓘ
judgment of souls ⓘ |
| ethicalTeaching |
good deeds
ⓘ
good thoughts ⓘ good words ⓘ |
| GathasLanguage |
Old Avestan
ⓘ
linked to:
Avestan language
|
| hasPart |
Gathas
ⓘ
linked to:
Avesta
Khordeh Avesta ⓘ
linked to:
Avesta
Vendidad ⓘ Visperad ⓘ Yashts ⓘ
linked to:
Avesta
Yasna ⓘ |
| historicalDevelopment | compiled over many centuries ⓘ |
| includesLawCode | Vendidad ⓘ |
| influenced | later Zoroastrian tradition ⓘ |
| language | Avestan ⓘ |
| liturgicalUse |
Zoroastrian worship
ⓘ
fire temple rituals ⓘ |
| moralConcept |
asha
ⓘ
druj ⓘ |
| preservedBy |
Zoroastrian priesthood
ⓘ
linked to:
Zoroastrianism
|
| primaryScriptureOf | Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin |
ancient Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
Persia
|
| relatedTradition | Middle Persian Zoroastrian texts ⓘ |
| religion | Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
| religiousGenre |
hymn
ⓘ
law code ⓘ liturgy ⓘ mythological narrative ⓘ |
| script | Avestan script ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Indo-Iranian scripts ⓘ |
| survivingPortion | only a fraction of original corpus ⓘ |
| textualState | partially lost ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Iranian Zoroastrians
ⓘ
Parsi community ⓘ
linked to:
Parsis
|
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: Avesta Description of subject: The Avesta is the primary collection of sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism, containing hymns, liturgical texts, and religious teachings.
Referenced by (86)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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legendary Pishdadian dynasty
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subject linked to:
asha
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