Tū

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Māori deity Polynesian deity hunting god war god

Tū is a major Polynesian war and hunting god, particularly revered in Māori tradition as a powerful ancestral figure and guardian of warriors.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Tū canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Māori deity ⓘ Polynesian deity ⓘ hunting god ⓘ war god ⓘ
associatedWith	conflict ⓘ courage ⓘ discipline ⓘ strategy ⓘ violence ⓘ warfare ⓘ
cosmicRole	atua who turns against his brothers after the separation of sky and earth ⓘ
culture	Māori ⓘ Polynesian ⓘ
describedAs	god of war and human activities in Māori tradition ⓘ
domain	human activities ⓘ hunting ⓘ war ⓘ
ethicalAspect	embodiment of both destructive and protective aspects of war ⓘ
familyRelation	son of Papatūānuku ⓘ son of Ranginui ⓘ
hasCategory	Māori gods ⓘ Polynesian mythology ⓘ war gods ⓘ
hasNameVariant	Tu ⓘ Tūmatauenga ⓘ surface form: Tumatauenga Tūmatauenga ⓘ
influenceOn	Māori concepts of warfare ⓘ Māori ritual practices ⓘ Māori social order ⓘ
languageContext	Te Reo Māori name ⓘ
mythologicalEvent	participant in the separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku ⓘ
regionOfCult	New Zealand ⓘ surface form: Aotearoa (New Zealand)
ritualContext	hunting rituals ⓘ preparation for battle ⓘ
role	ancestral figure ⓘ atua of humankind ⓘ atua of war ⓘ guardian of warriors ⓘ
sacrificeType	human sacrifice in some traditions ⓘ
sibling	Haumia-tiketike ⓘ Rongo ⓘ Tangaroa ⓘ Tāne ⓘ Tāwhirimātea ⓘ
symbolicAssociation	snaring and trapping ⓘ weapons ⓘ
worshippedBy	Māori communities ⓘ Māori warriors ⓘ

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: Tū
Description of subject: Tū is a major Polynesian war and hunting god, particularly revered in Māori tradition as a powerful ancestral figure and guardian of warriors.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Polynesian indigenous religions → hasDeity → Tū ⓘ