Thagyamin
E786991
Thagyamin is the chief deity in Burmese Buddhist cosmology, often equated with Indra, who presides over the heavens and plays a central role in Myanmar’s religious and cultural traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thagyamin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9230684 — 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: Thagyamin Context triple: [Thingyan, hasMythologicalAssociation, Thagyamin]
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A.
Ang Lhamu
Ang Lhamu was the wife of famed Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who helped make history with the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest.
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B.
Jarung Khashor
Jarung Khashor is the traditional Tibetan name for the Boudhanath Stupa, one of the largest and most important Buddhist stupas in Nepal and a major pilgrimage site.
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C.
Zang Tumb Tuuum
Zang Tumb Tuuum is a seminal 1914 Futurist sound-poetry work by Italian artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, celebrated for its experimental typography and onomatopoeic evocation of modern warfare.
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D.
Yamadonga
Yamadonga is a 2007 Telugu fantasy-action film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, known for its mythological themes, visual spectacle, and N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s lead performance.
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E.
Yakthung
Yakthung is the endonym used by the Limbu people, an indigenous ethnic group of the eastern Himalayas known for their distinct language, script, and cultural traditions.
- 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: Thagyamin Target entity description: Thagyamin is the chief deity in Burmese Buddhist cosmology, often equated with Indra, who presides over the heavens and plays a central role in Myanmar’s religious and cultural traditions.
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A.
Ang Lhamu
Ang Lhamu was the wife of famed Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who helped make history with the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest.
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B.
Jarung Khashor
Jarung Khashor is the traditional Tibetan name for the Boudhanath Stupa, one of the largest and most important Buddhist stupas in Nepal and a major pilgrimage site.
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C.
Zang Tumb Tuuum
Zang Tumb Tuuum is a seminal 1914 Futurist sound-poetry work by Italian artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, celebrated for its experimental typography and onomatopoeic evocation of modern warfare.
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D.
Yamadonga
Yamadonga is a 2007 Telugu fantasy-action film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, known for its mythological themes, visual spectacle, and N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s lead performance.
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E.
Yakthung
Yakthung is the endonym used by the Limbu people, an indigenous ethnic group of the eastern Himalayas known for their distinct language, script, and cultural traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Burmese deity
ⓘ
deity ⓘ |
| abode | Mount Meru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
cosmic order
ⓘ
karma ⓘ rebirth ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Burmese New Year festival Thingyan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
lightning ⓘ merit ⓘ moral conduct ⓘ rain ⓘ thunder ⓘ |
| cosmologicalRealm | Tavatimsa heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| culture | Burmese culture ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
deity holding a conch or thunderbolt
ⓘ
royal figure in celestial attire ⓘ |
| domain | heavens ⓘ |
| equivalent |
Indra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sakka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalRole | inspector of human deeds during Thingyan ⓘ |
| function |
judge of good and evil deeds
ⓘ
protector of righteous rulers ⓘ |
| gender | male deity ⓘ |
| hasMythType | didactic moral tales ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
crown
ⓘ
royal regalia ⓘ |
| influenced |
Burmese literature
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Burmese performing arts ⓘ Burmese visual arts ⓘ |
| languageName | Burmese ⓘ |
| linkedTradition | Pali Buddhist texts about Sakka/Indra ⓘ |
| moralStatus | benevolent deity ⓘ |
| mythologicalOrigin | adaptation of Hindu god Indra into Burmese Buddhism ⓘ |
| partOf |
Burmese Buddhist cosmology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burmese nat and deity pantheon ⓘ |
| regionOfVeneration | Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Theravada ⓘ
surface form:
Theravada Buddhism
|
| role |
chief deity in Burmese Buddhist cosmology
ⓘ
guardian of the Buddha’s teachings ⓘ king of the gods ⓘ |
| title | Lord of the Thirty-Three ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
Burmese folk religion
ⓘ
Myanmar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Thagyamin Description of subject: Thagyamin is the chief deity in Burmese Buddhist cosmology, often equated with Indra, who presides over the heavens and plays a central role in Myanmar’s religious and cultural traditions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.