Hoderi
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Hoderi is a deity in Japanese mythology, known as the elder son of Ninigi-no-Mikoto and an ancestor of seafaring clans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hoderi canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5860661 — 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: Hoderi Context triple: [Ninigi-no-Mikoto, child, Hoderi]
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A.
Hodr
Hodr is a blind god in Norse mythology, best known for being tricked into killing his brother Baldr.
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B.
Hyllus
Hyllus is a figure in Greek mythology known as the son of Heracles and Deianira, often associated with the Dorian invasion and the Heracleidae.
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C.
Temenus
Temenus is a mythological Greek hero and king, a descendant of Heracles who played a key role in the Dorian invasion and the founding of Argos’s royal line.
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D.
Hestur
Hestur is a small, sparsely populated island in the central Faroe Islands known for its steep cliffs, birdlife, and traditional Faroese landscape.
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E.
Vanth
Vanth is the small, likely captured moon of the distant Kuiper Belt dwarf planet Orcus.
- 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: Hoderi Target entity description: Hoderi is a deity in Japanese mythology, known as the elder son of Ninigi-no-Mikoto and an ancestor of seafaring clans.
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A.
Hodr
Hodr is a blind god in Norse mythology, best known for being tricked into killing his brother Baldr.
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B.
Hyllus
Hyllus is a figure in Greek mythology known as the son of Heracles and Deianira, often associated with the Dorian invasion and the Heracleidae.
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C.
Temenus
Temenus is a mythological Greek hero and king, a descendant of Heracles who played a key role in the Dorian invasion and the founding of Argos’s royal line.
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D.
Hestur
Hestur is a small, sparsely populated island in the central Faroe Islands known for its steep cliffs, birdlife, and traditional Faroese landscape.
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E.
Vanth
Vanth is the small, likely captured moon of the distant Kuiper Belt dwarf planet Orcus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deity
ⓘ
figure in Japanese mythology ⓘ kami ⓘ |
| ancestralFunction | mythic progenitor of maritime lineages ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Kojiki
ⓘ
Nihon Shoki ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
fishing
ⓘ
sea ⓘ |
| birthOrder | elder son ⓘ |
| category |
Japanese legendary figures
ⓘ
Shinto kami ⓘ
linked to:
kami (Shinto deities)
mythological princes ⓘ |
| clanAssociation |
fishing clans
ⓘ
seafaring clans ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Hoori ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Hoori as land and agriculture figure ⓘ |
| cosmicRole | mediator between humans and sea deities ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| domain |
marine resources
ⓘ
sea bounty ⓘ |
| epithet | Umisachi-hiko ⓘ |
| grandparent |
Amaterasu
ⓘ
Takami-musubi ⓘ
linked to:
Takami-Musubi
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| keyItemInMyth | fishing hook ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| mother | Konohanasakuya-hime ⓘ |
| mythology | Japanese mythology ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist of the fishing hook legend ⓘ |
| parent | Ninigi-no-Mikoto ⓘ |
| relatedMyth | Umisachi-hiko and Yamasachi-hiko legend ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| role |
ancestor of fishing clans
ⓘ
ancestor of seafaring clans ⓘ |
| sibling |
Hoori
ⓘ
Hosuseri ⓘ |
| spouse | Toyotama-hime ⓘ |
| storyTheme |
exchange of fortunes between sea and land
ⓘ
sibling rivalry ⓘ |
| title | prince of the sea’s bounty ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
bringer of sea abundance
ⓘ
protector of fishermen ⓘ |
| worshippedIn | Japan ⓘ |
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: Hoderi Description of subject: Hoderi is a deity in Japanese mythology, known as the elder son of Ninigi-no-Mikoto and an ancestor of seafaring clans.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.