Ganesha
E20323
Ganesha is a widely revered Hindu god known as the remover of obstacles and the patron of wisdom, learning, and new beginnings, typically depicted with an elephant head and a pot-bellied human body.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ganesha canonical | 80 |
| Lord Ganesha | 4 |
| Ganapati | 3 |
| Ganesh | 2 |
| Ganesha as remover of obstacles (Vighneshvara) | 1 |
| Ganesha with one tusk | 1 |
| Heramba Ganapati | 1 |
| elephant-headed god Ganesha | 1 |
| statue of Ganesha | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152491 — 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: Ganesha Context triple: [Hinduism, hasDeity, Ganesha]
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A.
Shiva
Shiva is a principal Hindu god revered as the destroyer and transformer within the religion’s divine trinity, associated with asceticism, cosmic dance, and the cycle of creation and dissolution.
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B.
Vishnu
Vishnu is a principal Hindu god revered as the preserver and protector of the universe, often depicted with blue skin and four arms and associated with avatars such as Rama and Krishna.
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C.
Brahma
Brahma is the Hindu god of creation, traditionally regarded as part of the Trimurti alongside Vishnu and Shiva.
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D.
Krishna
Krishna is a major river in southern India that flows through the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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E.
Krishna
Krishna is a major Hindu deity revered as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and celebrated for his roles as a divine lover, charioteer, and teacher in texts like the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabharata.
- 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: Ganesha Target entity description: Ganesha is a widely revered Hindu god known as the remover of obstacles and the patron of wisdom, learning, and new beginnings, typically depicted with an elephant head and a pot-bellied human body.
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A.
Shiva
Shiva is a principal Hindu god revered as the destroyer and transformer within the religion’s divine trinity, associated with asceticism, cosmic dance, and the cycle of creation and dissolution.
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B.
Vishnu
Vishnu is a principal Hindu god revered as the preserver and protector of the universe, often depicted with blue skin and four arms and associated with avatars such as Rama and Krishna.
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C.
Brahma
Brahma is the Hindu god of creation, traditionally regarded as part of the Trimurti alongside Vishnu and Shiva.
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D.
Krishna
Krishna is a major river in southern India that flows through the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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E.
Krishna
Krishna is a major Hindu deity revered as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and celebrated for his roles as a divine lover, charioteer, and teacher in texts like the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabharata.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (96)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu deity
ⓘ
god ⓘ |
| associatedPhilosophy | Ganapatya tradition ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
auspiciousness
ⓘ
good fortune ⓘ intellect ⓘ learning ⓘ prosperity ⓘ removal of obstacles ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
| consort |
Buddhi
ⓘ
Riddhi ⓘ Riddhi ⓘ
surface form:
Siddhi
|
| culturalRole |
pan-Indian deity
ⓘ
popular deity in Hindu diaspora ⓘ widely worshipped across South Asia ⓘ |
| deityType |
god of beginnings
ⓘ
patron of arts and sciences ⓘ patron of learning ⓘ remover of obstacles ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
elephant-headed deity
ⓘ
four-armed figure ⓘ pot-bellied human body ⓘ |
| domain |
arts
ⓘ
commerce ⓘ education ⓘ household rituals ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| epithet |
Lord of Beginnings
ⓘ
Lord of Wisdom ⓘ
surface form:
Lord of Learning
Lord of Wisdom ⓘ Lord of the Ganas ⓘ Remover of Obstacles ⓘ |
| family |
Devi
ⓘ
surface form:
Parvati
Shiva ⓘ |
| favoriteFood | modaka ⓘ |
| festival | Ganesh Chaturthi ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
Ekadanta
ⓘ
Gajanana ⓘ Ganesha self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Heramba Ganapati
Vakratunda ⓘ
surface form:
Lambodara
Vinayaka ⓘ
surface form:
Maha Ganapati
Mahodara ⓘ Nritya Ganapati ⓘ Vinayaka ⓘ
surface form:
Siddhi Vinayaka
Uchchhishta Ganapati ⓘ Vakratunda ⓘ |
| holds |
axe
ⓘ
broken tusk ⓘ noose ⓘ sweet bowl ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
curved trunk
ⓘ
elephant head ⓘ large belly ⓘ large ears ⓘ mouse vehicle ⓘ single tusk ⓘ |
| majorFestivalRegion |
Andhra Pradesh
ⓘ
Bali ⓘ Cambodia ⓘ Goa ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ Karnataka ⓘ Maharashtra ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Orissa ⓘ
surface form:
Odisha
South India ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ Tamil Nadu ⓘ Telangana ⓘ Thailand ⓘ Western India ⓘ |
| otherName |
Ganesha
ⓘ
surface form:
Ganapati
Vinayaka ⓘ
surface form:
Vighneshvara
Vinayaka ⓘ |
| parent |
Devi
ⓘ
surface form:
Parvati
Shiva ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| scripturalMention |
Ganapati Upanishad
ⓘ
Ganesha Purana ⓘ Mudgala Purana ⓘ Puranas ⓘ |
| sibling |
Kartikeya
ⓘ
Kartikeya ⓘ
surface form:
Skanda
|
| symbol |
modaka
ⓘ
om ⓘ |
| vehicle |
mouse
ⓘ
rat ⓘ |
| veneratedBy |
Buddhism
ⓘ
surface form:
Buddhists
Hinduism ⓘ
surface form:
Hindus
Jainism ⓘ
surface form:
Jains
|
| worshipContext |
beginning of rituals
ⓘ
educational undertakings ⓘ start of new ventures ⓘ |
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: Ganesha Description of subject: Ganesha is a widely revered Hindu god known as the remover of obstacles and the patron of wisdom, learning, and new beginnings, typically depicted with an elephant head and a pot-bellied human body.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sambisari Temple
this entity surface form:
statue of Ganesha
this entity surface form:
Ganesha as remover of obstacles (Vighneshvara)
this entity surface form:
elephant-headed god Ganesha