Elegguá
E281052
Elegguá is a major orisha in Afro-Cuban and Yoruba-derived religions, revered as the trickster guardian of crossroads, doors, and destiny who controls the opening and closing of all spiritual paths.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eshu | 3 |
| Legba | 2 |
| Eleggua | 1 |
| Elegguá canonical | 1 |
| Elegua | 1 |
| Eshu (Èṣù) | 1 |
| Eshu-Elegbara | 1 |
| Exu | 1 |
| Papa Legba | 1 |
| Èṣù (Eshu) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2571566 — 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: Elegguá Context triple: [Regla de Ocha, hasImportantDeity, Elegguá]
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A.
Shango
Shango is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the powerful god of thunder, lightning, and justice, often associated with kingship and drumming.
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B.
Ogun
Ogun is a major Yoruba deity revered as the god of iron, war, and craftsmanship, often associated with metalworking, technology, and the clearing of paths.
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C.
Orisha
Orisha are deities or divine spirits in the Yoruba religion, each embodying specific natural forces, human traits, and aspects of daily life, and serving as intermediaries between humans and the supreme god.
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D.
Ifa
Ifa is a Yoruba divination and spiritual system centered on a complex corpus of sacred texts and the guidance of the deity Orunmila.
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E.
Olodumare
Olodumare is the supreme creator deity and ultimate source of power and existence in Yoruba religion and cosmology.
- 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: Elegguá Target entity description: Elegguá is a major orisha in Afro-Cuban and Yoruba-derived religions, revered as the trickster guardian of crossroads, doors, and destiny who controls the opening and closing of all spiritual paths.
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A.
Shango
Shango is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the powerful god of thunder, lightning, and justice, often associated with kingship and drumming.
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B.
Ogun
Ogun is a major Yoruba deity revered as the god of iron, war, and craftsmanship, often associated with metalworking, technology, and the clearing of paths.
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C.
Orisha
Orisha are deities or divine spirits in the Yoruba religion, each embodying specific natural forces, human traits, and aspects of daily life, and serving as intermediaries between humans and the supreme god.
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D.
Ifa
Ifa is a Yoruba divination and spiritual system centered on a complex corpus of sacred texts and the guidance of the deity Orunmila.
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E.
Olodumare
Olodumare is the supreme creator deity and ultimate source of power and existence in Yoruba religion and cosmology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deity
ⓘ
orisha ⓘ trickster deity ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
beginnings
ⓘ
chance ⓘ communication ⓘ destiny ⓘ endings ⓘ fate ⓘ protection ⓘ trickery ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrisha |
Elegguá
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Eshu
Obatalá ⓘ Ochosi ⓘ Ogun ⓘ
surface form:
Ogún
|
| color |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ |
| controls |
closing of spiritual paths
ⓘ
destiny paths ⓘ opening of spiritual paths ⓘ |
| domain |
communication between humans and orishas
ⓘ
crossroads ⓘ doorways ⓘ gates ⓘ paths ⓘ roads ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Elegbara
ⓘ
Elegbá ⓘ Elegguá ⓘ
surface form:
Eleggua
Elegguá ⓘ
surface form:
Elegua
Elegguá ⓘ
surface form:
Eshu-Elegbara
|
| hasAspect |
childlike aspect
ⓘ
old man aspect ⓘ |
| hasYorubaName | Èṣù-Ẹlẹ́gbára ⓘ |
| number |
21
ⓘ
3 ⓘ |
| offering |
candy
ⓘ
cigars ⓘ coconut ⓘ cooked corn ⓘ rum ⓘ toys ⓘ |
| positionInPantheon | one of the first orishas to be saluted in rituals ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Afro-Cuban religion
ⓘ
Candomblé ⓘ Santería ⓘ
surface form:
Lucumí religion
Regla de Ocha ⓘ Santería ⓘ Umbanda ⓘ Yoruba religion ⓘ |
| ritualFunction | must be propitiated before other orishas ⓘ |
| role |
closer of roads
ⓘ
guardian of crossroads ⓘ guardian of doors ⓘ guardian of paths ⓘ guardian of thresholds ⓘ messenger of the orishas ⓘ opener of roads ⓘ trickster ⓘ |
| symbol |
cowrie shells
ⓘ
crossroads ⓘ keys ⓘ small head-shaped shrine ⓘ stones ⓘ |
| worshipedIn |
Brazil
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Caribbean ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Elegguá Description of subject: Elegguá is a major orisha in Afro-Cuban and Yoruba-derived religions, revered as the trickster guardian of crossroads, doors, and destiny who controls the opening and closing of all spiritual paths.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Papa Legba
this entity surface form:
Eshu
this entity surface form:
Exu
this entity surface form:
Eshu
this entity surface form:
Eshu (Èṣù)
this entity surface form:
Èṣù (Eshu)
this entity surface form:
Elegua
this entity surface form:
Eleggua
this entity surface form:
Eshu-Elegbara
this entity surface form:
Eshu
this entity surface form:
Legba