Yashoda
E103305
Yashoda is the loving foster mother of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered for her deep maternal devotion and prominent role in his childhood stories.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yashoda canonical | 5 |
| Krishna was secretly taken from her to Gokul | 1 |
| Yashodha | 1 |
| Yaśodā | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T859388 — 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: Yashoda Context triple: [Krishna, fosterParents, Yashoda]
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A.
Sarada Devi
Sarada Devi was the wife and spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna and a revered Hindu saint known as the Holy Mother in the Ramakrishna movement.
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B.
Devaki
Devaki is a revered figure in Hindu mythology best known as the mother of Lord Krishna.
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C.
Devi
Devi is the supreme goddess in Hinduism, embodying the divine feminine power (Shakti) in its many forms such as Durga, Parvati, Lakshmi, and Saraswati.
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D.
Gyanadanandini Devi
Gyanadanandini Devi was a pioneering Bengali social reformer and member of the Tagore family, known for modernizing women's attire and advocating for women's emancipation in 19th-century India.
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E.
Jambavati
Jambavati is a prominent queen of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered in scripture as one of his principal consorts and the daughter of the bear-king Jambavan.
- 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: Yashoda Target entity description: Yashoda is the loving foster mother of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered for her deep maternal devotion and prominent role in his childhood stories.
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A.
Sarada Devi
Sarada Devi was the wife and spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna and a revered Hindu saint known as the Holy Mother in the Ramakrishna movement.
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B.
Devaki
Devaki is a revered figure in Hindu mythology best known as the mother of Lord Krishna.
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C.
Devi
Devi is the supreme goddess in Hinduism, embodying the divine feminine power (Shakti) in its many forms such as Durga, Parvati, Lakshmi, and Saraswati.
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D.
Gyanadanandini Devi
Gyanadanandini Devi was a pioneering Bengali social reformer and member of the Tagore family, known for modernizing women's attire and advocating for women's emancipation in 19th-century India.
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E.
Jambavati
Jambavati is a prominent queen of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered in scripture as one of his principal consorts and the daughter of the bear-king Jambavan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu mythological character
ⓘ
mother figure ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Bhagavata Purana
ⓘ
Harivamsa ⓘ various Krishna childhood legends ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bhakti (devotion)
ⓘ
Gokul ⓘ
surface form:
Gokula
Krishna ⓘ Nanda ⓘ Vrindavan ⓘ |
| child |
Balarama
ⓘ
surface form:
Balarama (in some traditions as foster child)
Krishna ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
ideal Hindu mother
ⓘ
symbol of maternal love ⓘ symbol of vatsalya bhava (parental devotion) ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
cowherd woman
ⓘ
loving mother of the child Krishna ⓘ |
| devotionalAspect | vatsalya rasa toward Krishna ⓘ |
| devotionalPractice | remembering her as the ideal devotee-mother of Krishna ⓘ |
| era |
Dvapara Yuga
ⓘ
surface form:
Dvapara Yuga (mythological time)
|
| ethnicGroup |
Ahir community
ⓘ
surface form:
Yadava community (cowherd clan)
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| iconography |
shown churning butter with Krishna nearby
ⓘ
shown holding baby Krishna ⓘ |
| knownFor |
maternal devotion to Krishna
ⓘ
raising Krishna ⓘ unconditional motherly love ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimaryTradition | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
contrast between divine nature of Krishna and her human motherly ignorance
ⓘ
power of love over fear of the divine ⓘ |
| mythologicalEvent |
butter-stealing episodes of Krishna
ⓘ
seeing the universe in Krishna’s mouth ⓘ tying Krishna to a mortar (Damodara episode) ⓘ witness of Krishna’s childhood miracles ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Yashoda
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Yashodha
Yaśodharā ⓘ
surface form:
Yasoda
|
| regionOfVeneration |
Braj region
ⓘ
surface form:
Braja region
northern India ⓘ
surface form:
North India
Vrindavan area ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| residence |
Gokul
ⓘ
surface form:
Gokula
Vrindavan ⓘ |
| role |
foster mother of Krishna
ⓘ
mother of Krishna in his childhood stories ⓘ |
| spouse | Nanda ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Vaishnavism
ⓘ
surface form:
Vaishnavas
|
| worshippedIn | Krishna temples ⓘ |
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: Yashoda Description of subject: Yashoda is the loving foster mother of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered for her deep maternal devotion and prominent role in his childhood stories.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Krishna was secretly taken from her to Gokul
this entity surface form:
Yashodha
this entity surface form:
Yaśodā