Elegbara
E948152
Elegbara is a powerful Yoruba orisha associated with crossroads, communication, and the opening and closing of spiritual pathways.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elegbara canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11817996 — 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: Elegbara Context triple: [Elegguá, hasAlternateName, Elegbara]
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A.
Isheagu
Isheagu is a town in Delta State, Nigeria, located within the Aniocha South Local Government Area.
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B.
Zangaléwa
Zangaléwa is a popular 1986 makossa song by the Cameroonian group Golden Sounds, widely known across Africa and later internationally after being adapted into Shakira’s World Cup anthem "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)."
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C.
Biloela
Biloela is a rural town in Queensland, Australia, known as an agricultural and administrative centre for the surrounding Central Queensland region.
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D.
Enbilulu
Enbilulu is a Mesopotamian deity associated with irrigation, canals, and the management of rivers and agricultural waters.
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E.
Ngamo
Ngamo is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in northeastern Nigeria by the Ngamo people.
- 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: Elegbara Target entity description: Elegbara is a powerful Yoruba orisha associated with crossroads, communication, and the opening and closing of spiritual pathways.
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A.
Isheagu
Isheagu is a town in Delta State, Nigeria, located within the Aniocha South Local Government Area.
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B.
Zangaléwa
Zangaléwa is a popular 1986 makossa song by the Cameroonian group Golden Sounds, widely known across Africa and later internationally after being adapted into Shakira’s World Cup anthem "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)."
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C.
Biloela
Biloela is a rural town in Queensland, Australia, known as an agricultural and administrative centre for the surrounding Central Queensland region.
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D.
Enbilulu
Enbilulu is a Mesopotamian deity associated with irrigation, canals, and the management of rivers and agricultural waters.
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E.
Ngamo
Ngamo is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in northeastern Nigeria by the Ngamo people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yoruba_deity
ⓘ
deity ⓘ orisha ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
closing_of_spiritual_pathways
ⓘ
communication ⓘ crossroads ⓘ opening_of_spiritual_pathways ⓘ |
| controls |
access_to_spiritual_realms
ⓘ
spiritual_gateways ⓘ |
| cosmologicalRole |
keeps_balance_between_worlds
ⓘ
regulates_flow_of_ase ⓘ |
| culture |
Yoruba_religion
ⓘ
linked to:
Yoruba religion
|
| function |
can_block_or_close_paths
ⓘ
carries_prayers_to_other_orishas ⓘ mediates_between_humans_and_divine ⓘ opens_paths_for_rituals ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
ambiguity
ⓘ
mediation ⓘ mischief ⓘ paradox ⓘ protection ⓘ |
| influenced | Afro_diasporic_religions ⓘ |
| moralAspect |
can_help_or_hinder_humans
ⓘ
tests_human_character ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Eleggua
ⓘ
linked to:
Elegguá
Eshu ⓘ
linked to:
Elegguá
Exu ⓘ
linked to:
Elegguá
|
| religiousTradition |
Ifa
ⓘ
Yoruba_traditional_religion ⓘ
linked to:
Yoruba religion
|
| ritualImportance |
first_to_be_saluted_in_many_rituals
ⓘ
must_be_appeased_before_other_orishas ⓘ |
| role |
guardian_of_crossroads
ⓘ
guardian_of_thresholds ⓘ messenger_between_humans_and_orishas ⓘ opener_of_ways ⓘ trickster_deity ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
choices
ⓘ
destiny ⓘ language ⓘ messages ⓘ paths ⓘ roads ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
Benin
ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ Togo ⓘ Yorubaland ⓘ |
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: Elegbara Description of subject: Elegbara is a powerful Yoruba orisha associated with crossroads, communication, and the opening and closing of spiritual pathways.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.