yage
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Yage is a traditional Amazonian psychoactive brew, also known as ayahuasca, used by Indigenous peoples for spiritual, healing, and shamanic rituals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| yage canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10872978 — 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: yage Context triple: [Ayahuasca, hasAlternativeName, yage]
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A.
YLE
YLE is Finland’s national public broadcasting company, providing television, radio, and online services across the country.
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B.
.ye
.ye is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) designated for websites associated with Yemen.
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C.
YAKT
YAKT is the time zone abbreviation for Yakutsk Time, used in parts of eastern Russia.
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D.
YEADE
YEADE is the UN/LOCODE identifier for the Port of Aden, a major seaport in Yemen on the Gulf of Aden.
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E.
yaan
Yaan is a traditional alcoholic beverage associated with the Limbu people of the Himalayan region, typically brewed from fermented grains.
- 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: yage Target entity description: Yage is a traditional Amazonian psychoactive brew, also known as ayahuasca, used by Indigenous peoples for spiritual, healing, and shamanic rituals.
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A.
YLE
YLE is Finland’s national public broadcasting company, providing television, radio, and online services across the country.
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B.
.ye
.ye is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) designated for websites associated with Yemen.
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C.
YAKT
YAKT is the time zone abbreviation for Yakutsk Time, used in parts of eastern Russia.
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D.
YEADE
YEADE is the UN/LOCODE identifier for the Port of Aden, a major seaport in Yemen on the Gulf of Aden.
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E.
yaan
Yaan is a traditional alcoholic beverage associated with the Limbu people of the Himalayan region, typically brewed from fermented grains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entheogen
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hallucinogen ⓘ psychoactive brew ⓘ traditional medicine ⓘ |
| administrationRoute | oral ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ayahuasca
NERFINISHED
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Caapi NERFINISHED ⓘ Daime NERFINISHED ⓘ Hoasca NERFINISHED ⓘ Yajé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
curanderos
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shamans ⓘ vegetalistas ⓘ |
| containsActiveCompound |
DMT
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N,N-Dimethyltryptamine ⓘ harmaline ⓘ harmine ⓘ tetrahydroharmine ⓘ |
| countryTradition |
Bolivia
NERFINISHED
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Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ Ecuador NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | sacred medicine ⓘ |
| duration | about 4 to 8 hours ⓘ |
| effect |
altered states of consciousness
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intensified emotions ⓘ purging ⓘ visions ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryIngredient | Banisteriopsis caapi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryIngredient |
Diplopterys cabrerana
NERFINISHED
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Psychotria viridis ⓘ |
| legalStatus | varies by country ⓘ |
| onset | about 30 to 60 minutes after ingestion ⓘ |
| preparationMethod | decoction of plants ⓘ |
| region | Amazon rainforest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| risk |
dangerous interactions with certain medications
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psychological distress ⓘ |
| traditionalPurpose |
communication with spirits
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diagnosis of illness ⓘ divination ⓘ spiritual healing ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Asháninka people
NERFINISHED
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Indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ Kofan people NERFINISHED ⓘ Shipibo-Conibo people NERFINISHED ⓘ Tukano peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
healing rituals
ⓘ
shamanic rituals ⓘ spiritual rituals ⓘ |
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: yage Description of subject: Yage is a traditional Amazonian psychoactive brew, also known as ayahuasca, used by Indigenous peoples for spiritual, healing, and shamanic rituals.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ayahuasca