Tagaloa

E412193

Polynesian deity creator god deity sky god

Tagaloa is a major creator and sky god in Polynesian mythology, especially revered in Samoan and other Western Polynesian traditions.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Tagaloa canonical	1
Tagaloa-lagi	1
Tangaloa	1

Statements (38)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Polynesian deity ⓘ creator god ⓘ deity ⓘ sky god ⓘ
associatedWith	fishing ⓘ heaven ⓘ navigation ⓘ the ocean ⓘ
category	Polynesian gods ⓘ creator gods ⓘ sky and weather gods ⓘ
cosmologicalStatus	primordial being ⓘ supreme god in some traditions ⓘ
created	humans in some Polynesian myths ⓘ islands in some Polynesian myths ⓘ
domain	creation ⓘ sea ⓘ sky ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
hasVariantName	Tagaloa self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Tagaloa-lagi Tagaloa self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Tangaloa Tangaroa ⓘ
influencedBy	shared Polynesian religious concepts ⓘ
influences	later Polynesian religious interpretations ⓘ
mythologicalCycle	Samoan creation myths ⓘ Tongan creation myths ⓘ
positionInPantheon	chief god in some Western Polynesian traditions ⓘ
religion	Polynesian mythology ⓘ Samoan mythology ⓘ Tongan mythology ⓘ Western Polynesian mythology ⓘ
role	creator of the world ⓘ culture hero ⓘ sky ruler ⓘ
worshipedIn	Fiji ⓘ Samoa ⓘ Tonga ⓘ Western 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: Tagaloa
Description of subject: Tagaloa is a major creator and sky god in Polynesian mythology, especially revered in Samoan and other Western Polynesian traditions.

Referenced by (3)

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

Polynesian indigenous religions → hasDeity → Tagaloa ⓘ

Tagaloa → hasVariantName → Tagaloa self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tagaloa-lagi

Tagaloa → hasVariantName → Tagaloa self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tangaloa