First Snake Goddess from Knossos
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The First Snake Goddess from Knossos is a famous Minoan faience figurine depicting a bare-breasted female deity holding snakes, emblematic of Bronze Age Cretan religion and artistry.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| First Snake Goddess from Knossos canonical | 1 |
| Minoan Snake Goddess | 1 |
| Second Snake Goddess from Knossos | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14030793 — 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: First Snake Goddess from Knossos Context triple: [Snake Goddess figurines, hasNotableExample, First Snake Goddess from Knossos]
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A.
Mother Goddess
The Mother Goddess is a divine feminine figure revered as a personification of the nurturing, protective, and creative power of nature or the nation, often central to devotional and nationalist symbolism.
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B.
Queen of Crete
Queen of Crete is the mythological royal title held by Europa after Zeus abducted her to the island and she became the mother of King Minos in Greek mythology.
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C.
Knossos
Knossos is an ancient Minoan palace complex and Bronze Age archaeological site, renowned as one of the earliest and most significant centers of European civilization.
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D.
Miss Minoes
Miss Minoes is a 2001 Dutch family fantasy film, based on Annie M.G. Schmidt’s children’s book, about a cat who transforms into a woman and helps a shy journalist uncover a local conspiracy.
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E.
Glykon serpent statue
The Glykon serpent statue is an ancient Roman marble sculpture depicting the snake-god Glykon, associated with the 2nd-century prophetic cult of Alexander of Abonoteichus and notable for its unusual, almost comic, hybrid serpent form.
- 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: First Snake Goddess from Knossos Target entity description: The First Snake Goddess from Knossos is a famous Minoan faience figurine depicting a bare-breasted female deity holding snakes, emblematic of Bronze Age Cretan religion and artistry.
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A.
Mother Goddess
The Mother Goddess is a divine feminine figure revered as a personification of the nurturing, protective, and creative power of nature or the nation, often central to devotional and nationalist symbolism.
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B.
Queen of Crete
Queen of Crete is the mythological royal title held by Europa after Zeus abducted her to the island and she became the mother of King Minos in Greek mythology.
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C.
Knossos
Knossos is an ancient Minoan palace complex and Bronze Age archaeological site, renowned as one of the earliest and most significant centers of European civilization.
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D.
Miss Minoes
Miss Minoes is a 2001 Dutch family fantasy film, based on Annie M.G. Schmidt’s children’s book, about a cat who transforms into a woman and helps a shy journalist uncover a local conspiracy.
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E.
Glykon serpent statue
The Glykon serpent statue is an ancient Roman marble sculpture depicting the snake-god Glykon, associated with the 2nd-century prophetic cult of Alexander of Abonoteichus and notable for its unusual, almost comic, hybrid serpent form.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Second Snake Goddess from Knossos
this entity surface form:
Minoan Snake Goddess