Kartikeya
E31785
Kartikeya is a Hindu war god, traditionally depicted as a youthful, spear-wielding deity and revered as the son of Shiva and Parvati.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kartikeya canonical | 37 |
| Skanda | 19 |
| Karthikeya | 1 |
| Lord Kartikeya | 1 |
| Skanda (Kartikeya) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T247107 — 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: Kartikeya Context triple: [Indian peafowl, associatedWithDeity, Kartikeya]
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A.
Shiva
Shiva is a principal Hindu god revered as the destroyer and transformer within the religion’s divine trinity, associated with asceticism, cosmic dance, and the cycle of creation and dissolution.
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B.
Ganesha
Ganesha is a widely revered Hindu god known as the remover of obstacles and the patron of wisdom, learning, and new beginnings, typically depicted with an elephant head and a pot-bellied human body.
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C.
Brahma
Brahma is the Hindu god of creation, traditionally regarded as part of the Trimurti alongside Vishnu and Shiva.
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D.
Vishnu
Vishnu is a principal Hindu god revered as the preserver and protector of the universe, often depicted with blue skin and four arms and associated with avatars such as Rama and Krishna.
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E.
Devi
Devi is the supreme goddess in Hinduism, embodying the divine feminine power (Shakti) in its many forms such as Durga, Parvati, Lakshmi, and Saraswati.
- 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: Kartikeya Target entity description: Kartikeya is a Hindu war god, traditionally depicted as a youthful, spear-wielding deity and revered as the son of Shiva and Parvati.
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A.
Shiva
Shiva is a principal Hindu god revered as the destroyer and transformer within the religion’s divine trinity, associated with asceticism, cosmic dance, and the cycle of creation and dissolution.
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B.
Ganesha
Ganesha is a widely revered Hindu god known as the remover of obstacles and the patron of wisdom, learning, and new beginnings, typically depicted with an elephant head and a pot-bellied human body.
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C.
Brahma
Brahma is the Hindu god of creation, traditionally regarded as part of the Trimurti alongside Vishnu and Shiva.
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D.
Vishnu
Vishnu is a principal Hindu god revered as the preserver and protector of the universe, often depicted with blue skin and four arms and associated with avatars such as Rama and Krishna.
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E.
Devi
Devi is the supreme goddess in Hinduism, embodying the divine feminine power (Shakti) in its many forms such as Durga, Parvati, Lakshmi, and Saraswati.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu deity
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god of war ⓘ son of Parvati ⓘ son of Shiva ⓘ war god ⓘ youthful deity ⓘ |
| abode |
Kailasa
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Palani ⓘ Pazhamudircholai ⓘ Skandagiri ⓘ Swamimalai ⓘ Thiruchendur ⓘ Tiruttani ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
South India
ⓘ
Tamil culture ⓘ celibacy ⓘ martial arts ⓘ mountains ⓘ valor ⓘ war ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| consort |
Devasena
ⓘ
Valli ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
riding a peacock
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six-faced ⓘ spear-wielding ⓘ youthful ⓘ |
| festival |
Skanda Sashti
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Thaipusam ⓘ |
| mount |
Paravani
ⓘ
peacock ⓘ |
| otherName |
Kumara
ⓘ
Murugan ⓘ Saravanabhava ⓘ Murugan ⓘ
surface form:
Shanmuga
Shanmukha ⓘ Kartikeya ⓘ
surface form:
Skanda
Murugan ⓘ
surface form:
Subrahmanya
Subramanya ⓘ |
| parent |
Devi
ⓘ
surface form:
Parvati
Shiva ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| scripture |
Mahabharata
ⓘ
Puranas ⓘ Ramayana ⓘ |
| sibling | Ganesha ⓘ |
| symbol |
peacock
ⓘ
rooster ⓘ spear ⓘ |
| weapon |
spear
ⓘ
vel ⓘ |
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: Kartikeya Description of subject: Kartikeya is a Hindu war god, traditionally depicted as a youthful, spear-wielding deity and revered as the son of Shiva and Parvati.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Skanda
this entity surface form:
Skanda
this entity surface form:
Skanda