Mitra
E105182
Mitra is a Vedic deity associated with friendship, contracts, and the maintenance of cosmic order, prominently revered in ancient Indo-Iranian religion.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mitra canonical | 6 |
| Mitra (in some Vedic hymns) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T873875 — 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: Mitra Context triple: [Rigveda, dedicatedToDeity, Mitra]
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A.
Moruya
Moruya is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its scenic river setting, nearby beaches, and historic granite quarries.
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B.
Beni
Beni is a sparsely populated, largely Amazonian department in northeastern Bolivia known for its tropical lowlands, cattle ranching, and rich indigenous cultures.
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C.
Amada
Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple site in Lower Nubia, renowned for its well-preserved reliefs and inscriptions dating back to the 18th Dynasty.
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D.
Shimsha
Shimsha is a river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and is known for its waterfalls and contribution to the Kaveri river system.
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E.
Kadan
Kadan was a Mongol prince and military commander who played a key role in the Mongol invasions of Central and Eastern Europe in the 13th century.
- 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: Mitra Target entity description: Mitra is a Vedic deity associated with friendship, contracts, and the maintenance of cosmic order, prominently revered in ancient Indo-Iranian religion.
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A.
Moruya
Moruya is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its scenic river setting, nearby beaches, and historic granite quarries.
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B.
Beni
Beni is a sparsely populated, largely Amazonian department in northeastern Bolivia known for its tropical lowlands, cattle ranching, and rich indigenous cultures.
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C.
Amada
Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple site in Lower Nubia, renowned for its well-preserved reliefs and inscriptions dating back to the 18th Dynasty.
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D.
Shimsha
Shimsha is a river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and is known for its waterfalls and contribution to the Kaveri river system.
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E.
Kadan
Kadan was a Mongol prince and military commander who played a key role in the Mongol invasions of Central and Eastern Europe in the 13th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Iranian deity
ⓘ
Vedic deity ⓘ deity ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Atharvaveda
ⓘ
Rigveda ⓘ Yajurveda ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agreements
ⓘ
contracts ⓘ cosmic order ⓘ daylight ⓘ friendship ⓘ oaths ⓘ social harmony ⓘ the sun ⓘ truth ⓘ Ṛta ⓘ |
| category |
Hindu gods
ⓘ
Indo-Iranian gods ⓘ Vedic gods ⓘ |
| cognateDeity |
Mithras
ⓘ
surface form:
Mithra
|
| cognateTradition |
Avestan religion
ⓘ
Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
| cosmicFunction |
maintenance of Ṛta
ⓘ
regulation of day and night ⓘ |
| culture |
Indo-Iranian
ⓘ
Vedic ⓘ |
| function |
guarantor of fair dealings
ⓘ
overseer of human relationships ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| meaningOfName |
ally
ⓘ
friend ⓘ |
| memberOf | Mitra-Varuna pair ⓘ |
| offeringType | Soma ⓘ |
| pantheon | Vedic pantheon ⓘ |
| partnerDeity | Varuna ⓘ |
| regionOfWorship |
South Asia
ⓘ
surface form:
Indian subcontinent
ancient Iran (as Mithra) ⓘ |
| religion |
Hinduism
ⓘ
Vedic pantheon ⓘ
surface form:
Vedic religion
ancient Indo-Iranian religion ⓘ |
| role |
Asura in early Vedic texts
ⓘ
guardian of contracts ⓘ maintainer of cosmic order ⓘ protector of friendship ⓘ upholder of oaths ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod | early Vedic period ⓘ |
| worshipType | Vedic ritual ⓘ |
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: Mitra Description of subject: Mitra is a Vedic deity associated with friendship, contracts, and the maintenance of cosmic order, prominently revered in ancient Indo-Iranian religion.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Surya
this entity surface form:
Mitra (in some Vedic hymns)