Chinese folk religion
E39185
Chinese folk religion is a syncretic system of traditional Chinese beliefs and practices that blends ancestor worship, local deities, Taoist and Buddhist elements, and popular rituals.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chinese folk religion canonical | 376 |
| Chaoshan folk religion | 1 |
| Chinese Kitchen God tradition | 1 |
| Chinese mythology | 1 |
| Shang religion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T304649 — 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: Chinese folk religion Context triple: [Chinese Indonesians, religion, Chinese folk religion]
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A.
Vietnamese folk religion
Vietnamese folk religion is a syncretic system of indigenous spiritual beliefs and practices in Vietnam, blending ancestor worship, village deities, and elements of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.
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B.
Shinto
Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan centered on the worship of kami (spirits or deities) and the veneration of nature and ancestors.
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C.
Sect Shinto
Sect Shinto is a modern, organized form of Shinto comprising various religious denominations that developed from the late 19th century, each with its own doctrines, founders, and institutional structures.
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D.
Taoism
Taoism is an ancient Chinese philosophical and religious tradition centered on living in harmony with the Tao, emphasizing naturalness, simplicity, and spiritual cultivation.
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E.
State Shinto
State Shinto was the government-controlled form of Shinto in pre-World War II Japan that promoted emperor worship and nationalism as part of the state ideology.
- 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: Chinese folk religion Target entity description: Chinese folk religion is a syncretic system of traditional Chinese beliefs and practices that blends ancestor worship, local deities, Taoist and Buddhist elements, and popular rituals.
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A.
Vietnamese folk religion
Vietnamese folk religion is a syncretic system of indigenous spiritual beliefs and practices in Vietnam, blending ancestor worship, village deities, and elements of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.
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B.
Shinto
Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan centered on the worship of kami (spirits or deities) and the veneration of nature and ancestors.
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C.
Sect Shinto
Sect Shinto is a modern, organized form of Shinto comprising various religious denominations that developed from the late 19th century, each with its own doctrines, founders, and institutional structures.
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D.
Taoism
Taoism is an ancient Chinese philosophical and religious tradition centered on living in harmony with the Tao, emphasizing naturalness, simplicity, and spiritual cultivation.
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E.
State Shinto
State Shinto was the government-controlled form of Shinto in pre-World War II Japan that promoted emperor worship and nationalism as part of the state ideology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk religion
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religion ⓘ syncretic religion ⓘ traditional Chinese belief system ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| follows | ancestor worship ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
auspiciousness
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cosmic bureaucracy ⓘ merit and retribution ⓘ qi ⓘ taboo observance ⓘ yin and yang ⓘ |
| hasDeity |
Caishen
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Chenghuangshen ⓘ Dragon King ⓘ Guandi ⓘ Guanyin ⓘ Jade Emperor ⓘ Kitchen God ⓘ Mazu ⓘ Tudigong ⓘ |
| hasRitualSpecialist |
fengshui master
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ritual master ⓘ shaman ⓘ spirit medium ⓘ |
| hasSacredSpace |
ancestral hall
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household altar ⓘ temple ⓘ |
| includesBelief |
Heaven
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surface form:
Heaven (Tian)
ancestral spirits ⓘ city gods ⓘ earth gods ⓘ household gods ⓘ nature spirits ⓘ underworld bureaucracy ⓘ |
| includesPractice |
burning of incense
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burning of joss paper ⓘ divination ⓘ exorcism rituals ⓘ ritual offerings ⓘ seasonal rites ⓘ spirit mediumship ⓘ temple festivals ⓘ veneration of local deities ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Buddhism
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Confucianism ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
| observesFestival |
Dragon Boat Festival
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Ghost Festival ⓘ Lantern Festival ⓘ Spring Festival ⓘ
surface form:
Lunar New Year
Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations ⓘ
surface form:
Mid-Autumn Festival
Qingming Festival ⓘ |
| practicedIn |
Chinese diaspora communities
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Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Macau ⓘ China ⓘ
surface form:
Mainland China
Malaysia ⓘ Singapore ⓘ Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
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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: Chinese folk religion Description of subject: Chinese folk religion is a syncretic system of traditional Chinese beliefs and practices that blends ancestor worship, local deities, Taoist and Buddhist elements, and popular rituals.
Referenced by (380)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.