mãe-de-santo
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Mãe-de-santo is a high-ranking female spiritual leader in Afro-Brazilian religions, responsible for guiding rituals, initiates, and the community’s relationship with the deities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| mãe de santo | 1 |
| mãe-de-santo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11579960 — 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: mãe-de-santo Context triple: [Umbanda, hasClergyRole, mãe-de-santo]
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A.
Mão Santa
Mão Santa is the famous nickname of Brazilian basketball legend Oscar Schmidt, renowned as one of the greatest scorers in international basketball history.
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B.
Nossa Senhora da Glória
Nossa Senhora da Glória is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Sergipe, known as an important regional center in the semi-arid hinterland.
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C.
Nossa Senhora do Socorro
Nossa Senhora do Socorro is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Sergipe, forming part of the metropolitan area of the state capital, Aracaju.
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D.
Nossa Senhora do Monte
Nossa Senhora do Monte is a small settlement on the island of Brava in Cape Verde, known for its elevated location and traditional Cape Verdean village character.
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E.
Our Lady Aparecida
Our Lady Aparecida is the patron saint of Brazil, venerated as a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary housed in the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida.
- 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: mãe-de-santo Target entity description: Mãe-de-santo is a high-ranking female spiritual leader in Afro-Brazilian religions, responsible for guiding rituals, initiates, and the community’s relationship with the deities.
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A.
Mão Santa
Mão Santa is the famous nickname of Brazilian basketball legend Oscar Schmidt, renowned as one of the greatest scorers in international basketball history.
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B.
Nossa Senhora da Glória
Nossa Senhora da Glória is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Sergipe, known as an important regional center in the semi-arid hinterland.
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C.
Nossa Senhora do Socorro
Nossa Senhora do Socorro is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Sergipe, forming part of the metropolitan area of the state capital, Aracaju.
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D.
Nossa Senhora do Monte
Nossa Senhora do Monte is a small settlement on the island of Brava in Cape Verde, known for its elevated location and traditional Cape Verdean village character.
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E.
Our Lady Aparecida
Our Lady Aparecida is the patron saint of Brazil, venerated as a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary housed in the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afro-Brazilian religious role
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religious title ⓘ spiritual leader ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion |
Candomblé
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Umbanda ⓘ other Afro-Brazilian religions ⓘ |
| connectedToConcept |
Afro-diasporic spirituality
ⓘ
matriarchal religious authority ⓘ |
| culturallyAssociatedWith |
Afro-Brazilian identity
ⓘ
resistance to religious intolerance ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| guides |
initiates
ⓘ
religious community ⓘ |
| hasCounterpart | pai-de-santo ⓘ |
| hasRole | high-ranking religious authority ⓘ |
| heads | terreiro ⓘ |
| honorificFor | experienced priestess ⓘ |
| leads |
house of worship
ⓘ
religious rituals ⓘ |
| literalMeaning | mother of saint ⓘ |
| mayBeAddressedAs | mãe ⓘ |
| mediatesBetween | community and deities ⓘ |
| oftenRecognizedBy |
local community respect
ⓘ
regional religious networks ⓘ |
| oversees |
festivals for orixás
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offerings to deities ⓘ |
| performs |
divination
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healing rituals ⓘ initiation ceremonies ⓘ |
| practicedIn | Brazil ⓘ |
| protects | spiritual well-being of followers ⓘ |
| requires |
initiation into the religion
ⓘ
years of religious training ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
preservation of religious tradition
ⓘ
ritual correctness ⓘ spiritual guidance ⓘ |
| roleInCommunity |
conflict mediation
ⓘ
cultural leadership ⓘ social support ⓘ |
| teaches |
ritual songs
ⓘ
sacred languages used in rituals ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| transmits |
ritual techniques
ⓘ
sacred knowledge ⓘ |
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: mãe-de-santo Description of subject: Mãe-de-santo is a high-ranking female spiritual leader in Afro-Brazilian religions, responsible for guiding rituals, initiates, and the community’s relationship with the deities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: mãe-de-santo