trishula
E118514
Trishula is a three-pronged spear most famously associated with the Hindu god Shiva, symbolizing divine power, destruction of evil, and the balance of creation, preservation, and dissolution.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shiva's trident | 1 |
| Trishula | 1 |
| trishula canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1000171 — 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: trishula Context triple: [Shaivism, symbol, trishula]
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A.
Tristubh
Tristubh is a principal Vedic poetic meter characterized by verses of four lines with eleven syllables each, widely used in ancient Sanskrit hymns.
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B.
Trimurti
Trimurti is the central Hindu concept of the divine triad that unites Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer into a single supreme reality.
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C.
triskelion
A triskelion is an ancient symbol consisting of three interlocked spirals or bent human legs radiating from a central point, commonly associated with Celtic and Mediterranean cultures.
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D.
Sudarshana Chakra
Sudarshana Chakra is a legendary spinning disc-like divine weapon in Hindu mythology, most famously associated with the god Vishnu and used to destroy evil.
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E.
Yantra
Yantra is a major river in northern Bulgaria that flows through cities like Veliko Tarnovo before joining the Danube.
- 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: trishula Target entity description: Trishula is a three-pronged spear most famously associated with the Hindu god Shiva, symbolizing divine power, destruction of evil, and the balance of creation, preservation, and dissolution.
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A.
Tristubh
Tristubh is a principal Vedic poetic meter characterized by verses of four lines with eleven syllables each, widely used in ancient Sanskrit hymns.
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B.
Trimurti
Trimurti is the central Hindu concept of the divine triad that unites Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer into a single supreme reality.
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C.
triskelion
A triskelion is an ancient symbol consisting of three interlocked spirals or bent human legs radiating from a central point, commonly associated with Celtic and Mediterranean cultures.
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D.
Sudarshana Chakra
Sudarshana Chakra is a legendary spinning disc-like divine weapon in Hindu mythology, most famously associated with the god Vishnu and used to destroy evil.
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E.
Yantra
Yantra is a major river in northern Bulgaria that flows through cities like Veliko Tarnovo before joining the Danube.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mythological weapon
ⓘ
religious symbol ⓘ ritual object ⓘ |
| alsoAssociatedWith |
Shakyamuni Buddha
ⓘ
surface form:
Buddha (in some Buddhist traditions)
Devi ⓘ
surface form:
Durga
Ganges ⓘ
surface form:
Ganga
Kali ⓘ Goddess Gauri ⓘ
surface form:
Parvati
|
| appearsIn |
Puranic literature
ⓘ
Shaivite texts ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
Hindu cosmology
ⓘ
Shaivism ⓘ spiritual transformation ⓘ |
| culturalRegion |
South Asia
ⓘ
surface form:
Indian subcontinent
|
| depictedWith | Shiva in iconography ⓘ |
| etymologyFrom |
Sanskrit "shula" (spear)
ⓘ
Sanskrit "tri" (three) ⓘ |
| hasType | three-pronged spear ⓘ |
| heldBy | Shiva ⓘ |
| iconographicFeature | three sharp prongs on a single shaft ⓘ |
| material | metal (in physical representations) ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedWith | damaru (drum) on the same shaft in Shiva’s hand ⓘ |
| placedOn | temple spires and gateways ⓘ |
| primaryDeityAssociated | Shiva ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
balance of creation, preservation, and destruction
ⓘ
creation ⓘ destruction of evil ⓘ dissolution ⓘ divine power ⓘ past, present, and future ⓘ preservation ⓘ three gunas (sattva, rajas, tamas) ⓘ three main nadis (ida, pingala, sushumna) ⓘ three worlds (heaven, earth, underworld) ⓘ |
| usedAs |
processional standard
ⓘ
temple emblem ⓘ |
| usedIn | Hindu religious rituals ⓘ |
| weaponOf | Shiva as destroyer of ignorance ⓘ |
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: trishula Description of subject: Trishula is a three-pronged spear most famously associated with the Hindu god Shiva, symbolizing divine power, destruction of evil, and the balance of creation, preservation, and dissolution.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Trishula
this entity surface form:
Shiva's trident