Tangaroa – sea and marine life
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Tangaroa is a major deity in Māori tradition revered as the powerful god who rules over the ocean and all marine creatures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tangaroa – sea and marine life canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15712341 — 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: Tangaroa – sea and marine life Context triple: [Māori mythology, hasDomainDeity, Tangaroa – sea and marine life]
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A.
Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa
Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa is a Cook Islands statesman who served as the second person to hold the viceregal role representing the British monarch in the Cook Islands.
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B.
Toaripi Lauti
Toaripi Lauti was a Tuvaluan politician who became the country's first prime minister following its independence.
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C.
Te Ika-a-Māui
Te Ika-a-Māui is the Māori name for New Zealand’s North Island, the more populous of the country’s two main islands and a central hub of its political and economic life.
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D.
Taroa
Taroa is the main settlement and administrative center of Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known historically for its World War II-era Japanese airbase.
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E.
Mother Sea
Mother Sea is a personified deity or spirit representing the ocean’s nurturing and life-giving qualities in Andean cosmology.
- 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: Tangaroa – sea and marine life Target entity description: Tangaroa is a major deity in Māori tradition revered as the powerful god who rules over the ocean and all marine creatures.
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A.
Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa
Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa is a Cook Islands statesman who served as the second person to hold the viceregal role representing the British monarch in the Cook Islands.
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B.
Toaripi Lauti
Toaripi Lauti was a Tuvaluan politician who became the country's first prime minister following its independence.
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C.
Te Ika-a-Māui
Te Ika-a-Māui is the Māori name for New Zealand’s North Island, the more populous of the country’s two main islands and a central hub of its political and economic life.
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D.
Taroa
Taroa is the main settlement and administrative center of Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known historically for its World War II-era Japanese airbase.
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E.
Mother Sea
Mother Sea is a personified deity or spirit representing the ocean’s nurturing and life-giving qualities in Andean cosmology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.