Eye of Horus
E284782
The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, healing, and royal power, often associated with the god Horus and used as an amulet.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eye of Horus canonical | 3 |
| Behedet of Horus | 1 |
| Wadjet eye | 1 |
| Wedjat eye | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2615495 — 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: Eye of Horus Context triple: [Horus, eyeAspect, Eye of Horus]
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A.
Eye of Ra
The Eye of Ra is an ancient Egyptian symbol and deity representing the sun god Ra’s protective, vengeful, and all-seeing power, often personified by goddesses such as Wadjet.
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B.
Thoth
Thoth is the ancient Egyptian god of writing, wisdom, magic, and the moon, often depicted as an ibis-headed scribe of the gods.
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C.
Wadjet
Wadjet is an ancient Egyptian cobra goddess associated with royal protection, kingship, and the land of Lower Egypt.
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D.
Horus of Kubban
Horus of Kubban is a local form of the ancient Egyptian god Horus venerated in the Nubian region near Kubban, associated with kingship and protection.
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E.
Horus
Horus is a major ancient Egyptian sky and kingship god, often depicted as a falcon or falcon-headed man and closely associated with divine rulership and protection.
- 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: Eye of Horus Target entity description: The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, healing, and royal power, often associated with the god Horus and used as an amulet.
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A.
Eye of Ra
The Eye of Ra is an ancient Egyptian symbol and deity representing the sun god Ra’s protective, vengeful, and all-seeing power, often personified by goddesses such as Wadjet.
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B.
Thoth
Thoth is the ancient Egyptian god of writing, wisdom, magic, and the moon, often depicted as an ibis-headed scribe of the gods.
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C.
Wadjet
Wadjet is an ancient Egyptian cobra goddess associated with royal protection, kingship, and the land of Lower Egypt.
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D.
Horus of Kubban
Horus of Kubban is a local form of the ancient Egyptian god Horus venerated in the Nubian region near Kubban, associated with kingship and protection.
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E.
Horus
Horus is a major ancient Egyptian sky and kingship god, often depicted as a falcon or falcon-headed man and closely associated with divine rulership and protection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
amulet
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ancient Egyptian symbol ⓘ protective symbol ⓘ religious symbol ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Horus
ⓘ
Ra ⓘ Wadjet ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| foundOn |
amulets
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coffins ⓘ jewelry ⓘ magical stelae ⓘ papyrus documents ⓘ pendants ⓘ rings ⓘ sarcophagi ⓘ scarabs ⓘ tomb walls ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Udjat
ⓘ
Eye of Horus ⓘ
surface form:
Wadjet eye
Horus ⓘ
surface form:
Wedjat
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| influenced | later protective eye symbols in Mediterranean cultures ⓘ |
| mythologicalEvent |
Horus’s eye being injured by Set
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Thoth restoring the eye of Horus ⓘ |
| partOf | ancient Egyptian iconography ⓘ |
| presentIn |
Book of the Dead
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surface form:
Book of the Dead spells
Coffin Texts ⓘ Pyramid Texts ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
divine protection
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kingship ⓘ maat ⓘ |
| relatedSymbol | Eye of Ra ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
healing
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health ⓘ prosperity ⓘ protection ⓘ restoration ⓘ royal power ⓘ well-being ⓘ wholeness ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
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New Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ Old Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ Ptolemaic Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
Ptolemaic Egypt
Ptolemaic–Roman Egypt ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Egypt
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| usedAs |
amulet for the dead
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amulet for the living ⓘ funerary amulet ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ensuring safe passage to the afterlife
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promoting physical healing ⓘ securing royal authority ⓘ warding off evil ⓘ |
| usedIn |
funerary rites
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healing rituals ⓘ magical texts ⓘ protective spells ⓘ |
| visualForm |
eye with extended cosmetic line
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eye with teardrop-shaped marking below ⓘ stylized human eye with markings of a falcon ⓘ |
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: Eye of Horus Description of subject: The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, healing, and royal power, often associated with the god Horus and used as an amulet.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Behedet of Horus
this entity surface form:
Wadjet eye