Te Rerenga Wairua (spiritual departure point in Māori tradition)
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Te Rerenga Wairua is a sacred Māori site at the northern tip of New Zealand’s North Island, revered as the place where spirits of the dead depart for the ancestral homeland of Hawaiki.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Te Rerenga Wairua (spiritual departure point in Māori tradition) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18402948 — 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: Te Rerenga Wairua (spiritual departure point in Māori tradition) Context triple: [Cape Reinga Lighthouse, nearbyFeature, Te Rerenga Wairua (spiritual departure point in Māori tradition)]
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A.
Te Kore (the realm of potential being)
Te Kore is a foundational Māori cosmological realm representing the void of limitless potential from which all existence and creation emerge.
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B.
Te Pō (the realm of becoming)
Te Pō (the realm of becoming) is a foundational Māori cosmological state of primordial darkness and potential from which creation, transformation, and new life emerge.
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C.
Te Arataura
Te Arataura is the executive governing body of Waikato-Tainui, responsible for leading the tribe’s strategic, political, and economic affairs.
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D.
Rarohenga (Māori underworld)
Rarohenga is the Māori underworld, a spiritual realm of the dead governed by the goddess Hine-nui-te-pō.
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E.
Te Uri Taniwha
Te Uri Taniwha is a Māori hapū (sub-tribe) of the Ngāpuhi iwi in northern Aotearoa New Zealand.
- 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: Te Rerenga Wairua (spiritual departure point in Māori tradition) Target entity description: Te Rerenga Wairua is a sacred Māori site at the northern tip of New Zealand’s North Island, revered as the place where spirits of the dead depart for the ancestral homeland of Hawaiki.
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A.
Te Kore (the realm of potential being)
Te Kore is a foundational Māori cosmological realm representing the void of limitless potential from which all existence and creation emerge.
-
B.
Te Pō (the realm of becoming)
Te Pō (the realm of becoming) is a foundational Māori cosmological state of primordial darkness and potential from which creation, transformation, and new life emerge.
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C.
Te Arataura
Te Arataura is the executive governing body of Waikato-Tainui, responsible for leading the tribe’s strategic, political, and economic affairs.
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D.
Rarohenga (Māori underworld)
Rarohenga is the Māori underworld, a spiritual realm of the dead governed by the goddess Hine-nui-te-pō.
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E.
Te Uri Taniwha
Te Uri Taniwha is a Māori hapū (sub-tribe) of the Ngāpuhi iwi in northern Aotearoa New Zealand.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Cape Reinga Lighthouse
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nearbyFeature
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Te Rerenga Wairua (spiritual departure point in Māori tradition)
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