Hina
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Hina is a prominent figure in Polynesian mythology, often depicted as a goddess associated with the moon, femininity, and skilled crafts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hina canonical | 2 |
| Hina-i-ka-malama | 1 |
| Hina-uri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3692407 — 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: Hina Context triple: [Māui, spouse, Hina]
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A.
Hana
Hana is a small, remote town on the eastern coast of Maui, Hawaii, known for its lush landscapes, waterfalls, and the scenic Road to Hana.
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B.
Hana
Hana is a compassionate Canadian army nurse in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," who cares for a badly burned man in an abandoned Italian villa during World War II.
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C.
Hana
Hana is a person known primarily as the romantic partner of Kip.
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D.
Hani
The Hani are an ethnic minority group in China, primarily known for their terraced rice farming, distinctive traditional dress, and rich folk culture in the mountainous regions of Yunnan.
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E.
Rina
Rina is a feminine given name commonly used as a short or diminutive form of longer names such as Caterina.
- 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: Hina Target entity description: Hina is a prominent figure in Polynesian mythology, often depicted as a goddess associated with the moon, femininity, and skilled crafts.
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A.
Hana
Hana is a small, remote town on the eastern coast of Maui, Hawaii, known for its lush landscapes, waterfalls, and the scenic Road to Hana.
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B.
Hana
Hana is a person known primarily as the romantic partner of Kip.
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C.
Hana
Hana is a compassionate Canadian army nurse in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," who cares for a badly burned man in an abandoned Italian villa during World War II.
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D.
Hani
The Hani are an ethnic minority group in China, primarily known for their terraced rice farming, distinctive traditional dress, and rich folk culture in the mountainous regions of Yunnan.
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E.
Rina
Rina is a feminine given name commonly used as a short or diminutive form of longer names such as Caterina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polynesian deity
ⓘ
goddess ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hawaiian mythology
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surface form:
Hawaiian legends of the moon
Māori lunar traditions ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
barkcloth
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beauty ⓘ femininity ⓘ fertility ⓘ love ⓘ moon ⓘ skilled crafts ⓘ tapa cloth making ⓘ |
| category |
Polynesian goddesses
ⓘ
craft deities ⓘ lunar deities ⓘ |
| cosmicRole |
controls or influences tides in some stories
ⓘ
marks time through lunar phases ⓘ |
| culture | Polynesian mythology ⓘ |
| domain | moon ⓘ |
| familyRole |
mother of heroes in some traditions
ⓘ
wife or consort of male deities in some traditions ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasVariantName |
Hina
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Hina-i-ka-malama
Hina-‘a ⓘ
surface form:
Hina-keahi
Hina-te-iwaiwa ⓘ Hina self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hina-uri
Hina-‘a ⓘ Hine ⓘ |
| mythicTheme |
connection between women and the moon
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creation of crafts ⓘ feminine power ⓘ |
| roleInMyth |
barkcloth maker
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moon goddess ⓘ patroness of crafts ⓘ patroness of women ⓘ weaver ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
craftsmanship
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domestic arts ⓘ the lunar cycle ⓘ womanhood ⓘ |
| veneratedBy |
Polynesians
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surface form:
Polynesian peoples
|
| worshippedIn |
Hawaiian mythology
ⓘ
Māori mythology ⓘ Tahitian mythology ⓘ wider Polynesia ⓘ |
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: Hina Description of subject: Hina is a prominent figure in Polynesian mythology, often depicted as a goddess associated with the moon, femininity, and skilled crafts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Māui
this entity surface form:
Hina-i-ka-malama
this entity surface form:
Hina-uri