Damballa
E289899
Damballa is a major serpent deity in Haitian Vodou, revered as a primordial creator spirit associated with purity, wisdom, and the life-giving forces of water and fertility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Damballa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2692195 — 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: Damballa Context triple: [Haitian Vodou, importantLwa, Damballa]
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A.
Kharabali
Kharabali is a town in southern Russia that serves as an administrative and economic center within Astrakhan Oblast.
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B.
Hudra
The Hudra is a principal liturgical book of the Syriac tradition, containing prayers, hymns, and rites used throughout the liturgical year.
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C.
Datooga
Datooga is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Datooga people of north-central Tanzania.
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D.
Dagon
Dagon is an ancient Semitic deity, often associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the sea, worshipped across regions including Phoenicia and Mesopotamia.
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E.
Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
- 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: Damballa Target entity description: Damballa is a major serpent deity in Haitian Vodou, revered as a primordial creator spirit associated with purity, wisdom, and the life-giving forces of water and fertility.
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A.
Kharabali
Kharabali is a town in southern Russia that serves as an administrative and economic center within Astrakhan Oblast.
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B.
Hudra
The Hudra is a principal liturgical book of the Syriac tradition, containing prayers, hymns, and rites used throughout the liturgical year.
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C.
Datooga
Datooga is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Datooga people of north-central Tanzania.
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D.
Dagon
Dagon is an ancient Semitic deity, often associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the sea, worshipped across regions including Phoenicia and Mesopotamia.
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E.
Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Vodou deity
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loa ⓘ serpent deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ancestral wisdom
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creation ⓘ fertility ⓘ harmony ⓘ life-giving forces ⓘ peace ⓘ purity ⓘ rain ⓘ rivers ⓘ springs ⓘ water ⓘ whiteness ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
| color | white ⓘ |
| culture |
Afro-Caribbean religion
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Haitian culture ⓘ |
| domain |
sky
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water ⓘ |
| equatedWith | African serpent creator deities ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influencedBy | West African serpent traditions ⓘ |
| marriedTo |
Ayida Wedo
ⓘ
surface form:
Ayida-Weddo
|
| mythologicalStatus |
creator of life
ⓘ
primordial being ⓘ |
| offering |
eggs
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flour ⓘ milk ⓘ rice ⓘ white foods ⓘ |
| pantheon | Rada loa ⓘ |
| religion |
Haitian Vodou
ⓘ
Haitian Vodou ⓘ
surface form:
Vodou
|
| ritualBehavior |
possessed devotees often crawl on the ground
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possessed devotees often hiss like a snake ⓘ |
| role | primordial creator spirit ⓘ |
| symbol |
serpent
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snake ⓘ |
| taboo |
loud noise during his rites
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rough behavior during possession ⓘ |
| temperament | benevolent ⓘ |
| veneratedBy |
Houngans
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Mambos ⓘ Vodou congregations ⓘ Vodou practitioners ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Haiti
ⓘ
Haitian Vodou temples ⓘ |
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: Damballa Description of subject: Damballa is a major serpent deity in Haitian Vodou, revered as a primordial creator spirit associated with purity, wisdom, and the life-giving forces of water and fertility.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.