Caodaism
E41503
Caodaism is a syncretic Vietnamese religion founded in the 1920s that blends elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, and local spiritual traditions under a monotheistic framework.
All labels observed (20)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caodaism canonical | 15 |
| Cao Đài | 8 |
| Cao Dai | 4 |
| Cao Dai liturgy | 1 |
| Cao Dai religion | 1 |
| Cao Dai sacred history | 1 |
| Cao Dai theology | 1 |
| Cao Đài clergy | 1 |
| Caodai Church | 1 |
| Caodai clergy | 1 |
| Caodai doctrine | 1 |
| Caodai missions | 1 |
| Caodai religious movement | 1 |
| Caodai spiritist tradition | 1 |
| Caodai study circles | 1 |
| Caodai teaching | 1 |
| Caodaiists | 1 |
| Caodaists | 1 |
| Supreme Being in Caodaism | 1 |
| Đạo Cao Đài | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T322810 — 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: Caodaism Context triple: [Saigon, majorReligion, Caodaism]
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A.
Vietnamese folk religion
Vietnamese folk religion is a syncretic system of indigenous spiritual beliefs and practices in Vietnam, blending ancestor worship, village deities, and elements of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.
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B.
Taoism
Taoism is an ancient Chinese philosophical and religious tradition centered on living in harmony with the Tao, emphasizing naturalness, simplicity, and spiritual cultivation.
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C.
Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion is a syncretic system of traditional Chinese beliefs and practices that blends ancestor worship, local deities, Taoist and Buddhist elements, and popular rituals.
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D.
Sect Shinto
Sect Shinto is a modern, organized form of Shinto comprising various religious denominations that developed from the late 19th century, each with its own doctrines, founders, and institutional structures.
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E.
Shinto
Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan centered on the worship of kami (spirits or deities) and the veneration of nature and ancestors.
- 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: Caodaism Target entity description: Caodaism is a syncretic Vietnamese religion founded in the 1920s that blends elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, and local spiritual traditions under a monotheistic framework.
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A.
Vietnamese folk religion
Vietnamese folk religion is a syncretic system of indigenous spiritual beliefs and practices in Vietnam, blending ancestor worship, village deities, and elements of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.
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B.
Taoism
Taoism is an ancient Chinese philosophical and religious tradition centered on living in harmony with the Tao, emphasizing naturalness, simplicity, and spiritual cultivation.
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C.
Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion is a syncretic system of traditional Chinese beliefs and practices that blends ancestor worship, local deities, Taoist and Buddhist elements, and popular rituals.
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D.
Sect Shinto
Sect Shinto is a modern, organized form of Shinto comprising various religious denominations that developed from the late 19th century, each with its own doctrines, founders, and institutional structures.
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E.
Shinto
Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan centered on the worship of kami (spirits or deities) and the veneration of nature and ancestors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: Caodaism Description of subject: Caodaism is a syncretic Vietnamese religion founded in the 1920s that blends elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, and local spiritual traditions under a monotheistic framework.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cao Đài
this entity surface form:
Caodaists
this entity surface form:
Cao Dai
subject surface form:
Hoa
this entity surface form:
Cao Đài
this entity surface form:
Cao Dai
this entity surface form:
Cao Dai
this entity surface form:
Cao Đài
this entity surface form:
Đạo Cao Đài
this entity surface form:
Caodai doctrine
this entity surface form:
Caodai teaching
this entity surface form:
Caodai study circles
this entity surface form:
Caodai clergy
this entity surface form:
Caodai spiritist tradition
this entity surface form:
Cao Đài
this entity surface form:
Cao Dai liturgy
this entity surface form:
Supreme Being in Caodaism
this entity surface form:
Cao Dai
this entity surface form:
Cao Dai theology
this entity surface form:
Cao Dai sacred history
this entity surface form:
Cao Dai religion
this entity surface form:
Cao Đài
this entity surface form:
Cao Đài
this entity surface form:
Cao Đài
this entity surface form:
Cao Đài clergy
this entity surface form:
Caodai religious movement
this entity surface form:
Caodaiists