Ma
E1034467
Ma is an ancient Anatolian mother and warrior goddess associated with fertility, protection, and local cult worship in regions such as Comana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ma canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13327617 — 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: Ma Context triple: [Anatolian paganism, hasDeity, Ma]
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A.
Ma
Ma is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable individuals across fields such as music, politics, and sports.
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B.
Ma
Ma is a 2019 psychological horror film starring Octavia Spencer as a lonely woman who befriends a group of teenagers with increasingly disturbing consequences.
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C.
Ma
Ma is a fictional character appearing in Enid Blyton’s children’s adventure novel "The Circus of Adventure."
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D.
Ma
"Ma" is a track from the album "Masterpiece," likely contributing to the record's overall artistic and musical identity.
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E.
Mae
Mae is the given name of Maeby Fünke, a fictional character from the television series "Arrested Development."
- 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: Ma Target entity description: Ma is an ancient Anatolian mother and warrior goddess associated with fertility, protection, and local cult worship in regions such as Comana.
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A.
Ma
Ma is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable individuals across fields such as music, politics, and sports.
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B.
Ma
Ma is a 2019 psychological horror film starring Octavia Spencer as a lonely woman who befriends a group of teenagers with increasingly disturbing consequences.
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C.
Ma
Ma is a fictional character appearing in Enid Blyton’s children’s adventure novel "The Circus of Adventure."
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D.
Ma
"Ma" is a track from the album "Masterpiece," likely contributing to the record's overall artistic and musical identity.
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E.
Mae
Mae is the given name of Maeby Fünke, a fictional character from the television series "Arrested Development."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Anatolian deity
ⓘ
goddess ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture
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fertility ⓘ fertility of land ⓘ nature ⓘ protection ⓘ protection of community ⓘ warfare ⓘ |
| cultCenter |
Comana Pontica
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Comana in Cappadocia ⓘ |
| culture | Anatolian ⓘ |
| equatedWith |
Artemis
ⓘ
Bellona ⓘ Cybele ⓘ Enyo ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
local cult deity
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motherhood aspect ⓘ tutelary goddess ⓘ warrior aspect ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
fertility powers
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martial character ⓘ protective character ⓘ |
| hasRole |
mother goddess
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warrior goddess ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Ma-Enyo ⓘ |
| iconography |
armed goddess
ⓘ
goddess with mural crown (possible) ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Greek
ⓘ
Luwian ⓘ
linked to:
Cuneiform Luwian
|
| linkedTo |
sacred prostitution at Comana (disputed)
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temple economy at Comana ⓘ |
| notableSanctuary |
temple of Ma at Comana Pontica
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temple of Ma at Comana in Cappadocia ⓘ |
| priesthood | powerful priestly hierarchy at Comana ⓘ |
| region | Anatolia ⓘ |
| religion | Anatolian religion ⓘ |
| veneratedBy |
Anatolian populations
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Hellenized communities in Anatolia ⓘ inhabitants of Comana ⓘ |
| worshipedIn |
Comana
ⓘ
Comana Pontica ⓘ Comana in Cappadocia ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod |
Hellenistic period
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Roman period ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
pre-Hellenistic Anatolia ⓘ |
| worshipType |
local cult
ⓘ
state cult ⓘ |
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: Ma Description of subject: Ma is an ancient Anatolian mother and warrior goddess associated with fertility, protection, and local cult worship in regions such as Comana.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.