Ouroboros
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Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail, commonly representing cyclicality, self-renewal, and the eternal nature of existence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ouroboros canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3514676 — 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: Ouroboros Context triple: [Jormungandr, relatedConcept, Ouroboros]
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A.
Aegitna
Aegitna is the ancient name of the city now known as Cannes on the French Riviera.
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B.
Chimera
Chimera is a monstrous fire-breathing creature from Greek mythology, typically depicted as a hybrid with parts of a lion, goat, and serpent.
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C.
Oribos
Oribos is the central hub city and afterlife crossroads in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, where players gather, trade, and access the expansion’s various realms.
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D.
Basilisk
The Basilisk is a gigantic, deadly serpent from the Harry Potter series whose gaze can kill and whose venom is among the most lethal magical substances.
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E.
LernaeanHydra
The Lernaean Hydra is a many-headed serpent-like monster from Greek mythology, famed for its regenerative heads and its defeat as one of Heracles’ Twelve Labors.
- 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: Ouroboros Target entity description: Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail, commonly representing cyclicality, self-renewal, and the eternal nature of existence.
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A.
Aegitna
Aegitna is the ancient name of the city now known as Cannes on the French Riviera.
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B.
Chimera
Chimera is a monstrous fire-breathing creature from Greek mythology, typically depicted as a hybrid with parts of a lion, goat, and serpent.
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C.
Oribos
Oribos is the central hub city and afterlife crossroads in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, where players gather, trade, and access the expansion’s various realms.
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D.
Basilisk
The Basilisk is a gigantic, deadly serpent from the Harry Potter series whose gaze can kill and whose venom is among the most lethal magical substances.
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E.
LernaeanHydra
The Lernaean Hydra is a many-headed serpent-like monster from Greek mythology, famed for its regenerative heads and its defeat as one of Heracles’ Twelve Labors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
esoteric symbol
ⓘ
mythological motif ⓘ symbol ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Gnostic texts
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Renaissance esoteric art ⓘ alchemical manuscripts ⓘ comics ⓘ medieval occult diagrams ⓘ modern fantasy literature ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jormungandr
ⓘ
surface form:
Jörmungandr
Norse mythology ⓘ alchemy’s prima materia ⓘ Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Egypt
Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Greece
cosmology ⓘ philosophical concepts of eternity ⓘ world serpent archetype ⓘ |
| depicts |
creature eating its own tail
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dragon ⓘ serpent ⓘ |
| hasConceptualOrigin | ancient symbolism of cycles ⓘ |
| hasPart |
coiled body
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tail in mouth ⓘ |
| hasShape |
circle
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ring ⓘ |
| influenced |
modern infinity symbolism
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philosophical discussions of recursion ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
infinity symbol
ⓘ
snake symbolism ⓘ |
| represents |
cycle of life, death, and rebirth
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cyclicality ⓘ eternal return ⓘ infinity ⓘ self-reflexivity ⓘ self-renewal ⓘ unity of beginning and end ⓘ wholeness ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
annihilation and re-creation
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closed cycle ⓘ cosmic order ⓘ eternal nature of existence ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Gnosticism
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Hermeticism ⓘ alchemy ⓘ esoteric philosophy ⓘ modern popular culture ⓘ mysticism ⓘ occult traditions ⓘ |
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: Ouroboros Description of subject: Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail, commonly representing cyclicality, self-renewal, and the eternal nature of existence.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.