Yoruba religion
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Yoruba religion is a traditional West African spiritual system centered on a supreme creator and a pantheon of orishas, emphasizing divination, ancestor veneration, and ritual practices that have also influenced Afro-diasporic faiths worldwide.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yoruba religion canonical | 44 |
| Yoruba traditional religion | 15 |
| Traditional Yoruba religion | 9 |
| West African traditional religion | 2 |
| Yoruba cosmology | 2 |
| Yoruba mythology | 2 |
| Egba traditional religion | 1 |
| Ifa-Orisha tradition | 1 |
| Ifá tradition | 1 |
| Yoruba pantheon | 1 |
| traditional Yoruba religion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2534211 — 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: Yoruba religion Context triple: [Olodumare, religion, Yoruba religion]
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A.
African traditional religion
African traditional religion refers to the diverse indigenous spiritual beliefs and practices of African peoples, centered on ancestral veneration, nature spirits, and a supreme creator.
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B.
Santería
Santería is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that blends Yoruba spiritual traditions with elements of Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of orishas through rituals, divination, and offerings.
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C.
Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion from Haiti that blends West and Central African spiritual traditions with Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of spirits called lwa.
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D.
Zulu traditional religion
Zulu traditional religion is the indigenous spiritual belief system of the Zulu people, centered on ancestor veneration, a creator god (uNkulunkulu), and rituals that maintain harmony between the living and the spirit world.
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E.
Afro-Caribbean religions
Afro-Caribbean religions are a diverse group of syncretic spiritual traditions in the Caribbean that blend West and Central African beliefs with Christianity and Indigenous influences.
- 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: Yoruba religion Target entity description: Yoruba religion is a traditional West African spiritual system centered on a supreme creator and a pantheon of orishas, emphasizing divination, ancestor veneration, and ritual practices that have also influenced Afro-diasporic faiths worldwide.
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A.
African traditional religion
African traditional religion refers to the diverse indigenous spiritual beliefs and practices of African peoples, centered on ancestral veneration, nature spirits, and a supreme creator.
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B.
Santería
Santería is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that blends Yoruba spiritual traditions with elements of Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of orishas through rituals, divination, and offerings.
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C.
Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion from Haiti that blends West and Central African spiritual traditions with Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of spirits called lwa.
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D.
Zulu traditional religion
Zulu traditional religion is the indigenous spiritual belief system of the Zulu people, centered on ancestor veneration, a creator god (uNkulunkulu), and rituals that maintain harmony between the living and the spirit world.
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E.
Afro-Caribbean religions
Afro-Caribbean religions are a diverse group of syncretic spiritual traditions in the Caribbean that blend West and Central African beliefs with Christianity and Indigenous influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ethnic religion
ⓘ
indigenous religion ⓘ polytheistic religion ⓘ traditional African religion ⓘ |
| associatedEthnicGroup | Yoruba people ⓘ |
| centralDivinationSystem | Ifa divination ⓘ |
| emphasizesPractice |
ancestor veneration
ⓘ
drumming and dance ⓘ initiation rites ⓘ offerings to orishas ⓘ ritual sacrifice ⓘ spirit possession ceremonies ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
ancestor veneration
ⓘ
ase ⓘ destiny ⓘ divination ⓘ ori ⓘ orisha ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ spirit possession ⓘ |
| hasCosmologyElement |
Aiye
ⓘ
Orun ⓘ |
| hasFestivalType | orisha festivals ⓘ |
| hasLanguageContext | Yoruba language ⓘ |
| hasMoralPrinciple |
balance and harmony
ⓘ
communal responsibility ⓘ respect for elders ⓘ |
| hasMusicElement |
bata drum
ⓘ
talking drum ⓘ |
| hasPantheonMember |
Elegguá
ⓘ
surface form:
Eshu
Obatalá ⓘ
surface form:
Obatala
Ogun ⓘ Orunmila ⓘ Oshun ⓘ Oya ⓘ Shango ⓘ Yemoja ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryRegion |
Benin
ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ Togo ⓘ Western Nigeria ⓘ
surface form:
Yorubaland
|
| hasRitualSpecialist |
babalawo
ⓘ
babalorisha ⓘ iyalorisha ⓘ iyanifa ⓘ olorisha ⓘ |
| hasSacredTextType |
Ifa
ⓘ
surface form:
Odu Ifa
|
| hasSupremeDeity |
Olodumare
ⓘ
Olodumare ⓘ
surface form:
Olorun
|
| hasTransmissionMode | oral tradition ⓘ |
| influencedReligion |
Candomblé
ⓘ
Lucumí religion ⓘ Santería ⓘ Trinidad Orisha religion ⓘ Umbanda ⓘ Vodou ⓘ |
| usesDivinationTool |
Opele chain
ⓘ
ikin palm nuts ⓘ |
| viewsOrishasAs | intermediaries between humans and supreme deity ⓘ |
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: Yoruba religion Description of subject: Yoruba religion is a traditional West African spiritual system centered on a supreme creator and a pantheon of orishas, emphasizing divination, ancestor veneration, and ritual practices that have also influenced Afro-diasporic faiths worldwide.
Referenced by (79)
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this entity surface form:
Traditional Yoruba religion
this entity surface form:
Yoruba traditional religion
this entity surface form:
Traditional Yoruba religion
this entity surface form:
West African traditional religion
this entity surface form:
Yoruba traditional religion
this entity surface form:
Yoruba traditional religion
this entity surface form:
Yoruba traditional religion
this entity surface form:
West African traditional religion
this entity surface form:
Yoruba traditional religion
this entity surface form:
Yoruba cosmology
this entity surface form:
Yoruba traditional religion
subject surface form:
Oyo Palace
this entity surface form:
Yoruba traditional religion
this entity surface form:
Yoruba traditional religion
subject surface form:
Ibeji
subject surface form:
Kariocha