Remover of Obstacles
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Remover of Obstacles is a revered epithet of the Hindu deity Ganesha, highlighting his role as the divine force who clears hindrances and grants success to devotees.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Remover of Obstacles canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T941856 — 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: Remover of Obstacles Context triple: [Ganesha, epithet, Remover of Obstacles]
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A.
Barriers
Barriers is a 1986 book by Noam Chomsky that develops key aspects of generative syntax, particularly within the Government and Binding framework, by introducing the concept of "barriers" to syntactic movement.
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B.
Clearing
Clearing is a residential and industrial neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago, known for encompassing and surrounding Midway International Airport.
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C.
La Rampa
La Rampa is a famous, bustling avenue in Havana’s Vedado district known for its mid-20th-century architecture, nightlife, and cultural landmarks.
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D.
The Floor Scrapers
The Floor Scrapers is a celebrated 1875 painting by French artist Gustave Caillebotte that depicts laborers planing a wooden floor in a realistic yet Impressionist-influenced style.
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E.
Sabotage
"Sabotage" is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, featuring an ensemble cast led by Arnold Schwarzenegger as members of an elite DEA task force.
- 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: Remover of Obstacles Target entity description: Remover of Obstacles is a revered epithet of the Hindu deity Ganesha, highlighting his role as the divine force who clears hindrances and grants success to devotees.
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A.
Barriers
Barriers is a 1986 book by Noam Chomsky that develops key aspects of generative syntax, particularly within the Government and Binding framework, by introducing the concept of "barriers" to syntactic movement.
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B.
Clearing
Clearing is a residential and industrial neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago, known for encompassing and surrounding Midway International Airport.
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C.
La Rampa
La Rampa is a famous, bustling avenue in Havana’s Vedado district known for its mid-20th-century architecture, nightlife, and cultural landmarks.
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D.
The Floor Scrapers
The Floor Scrapers is a celebrated 1875 painting by French artist Gustave Caillebotte that depicts laborers planing a wooden floor in a realistic yet Impressionist-influenced style.
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E.
Sabotage
Sabotage is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent," about a cinema owner secretly involved in a terrorist bombing plot in London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epithet
ⓘ
religious title ⓘ |
| appliedToDeityType | Hindu deity ⓘ |
| associatedDeityAttribute |
benevolence
ⓘ
compassion ⓘ guidance ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
auspicious beginnings
ⓘ
good fortune ⓘ prosperity ⓘ spiritual progress ⓘ |
| correspondsToSanskritTitle |
Vakratunda
ⓘ
surface form:
Vighnaharta
Shiva ⓘ
surface form:
Vighneshvara
|
| culturalTradition | Hindu devotional practice ⓘ |
| describesRole |
granting success
ⓘ
removal of obstacles ⓘ |
| epithetOfAspect | Ganesha as remover of hindrances ⓘ |
| hasDevotionalFunction |
seeking blessings for success
ⓘ
seeking divine help ⓘ |
| honorificFor | Ganesha ⓘ |
| invokedAtTime |
beginning of important tasks
ⓘ
start of ceremonies ⓘ |
| invokedFor |
removal of material obstacles
ⓘ
removal of spiritual obstacles ⓘ success in new ventures ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | English ⓘ |
| refersTo | Ganesha ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| usedBy | Hindu devotees ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
devotional hymns
ⓘ
prayers ⓘ rituals ⓘ |
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: Remover of Obstacles Description of subject: Remover of Obstacles is a revered epithet of the Hindu deity Ganesha, highlighting his role as the divine force who clears hindrances and grants success to devotees.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.