Bön
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Bön is an ancient indigenous spiritual tradition of Tibet characterized by shamanic rituals, nature worship, and a rich cosmology that both predates and coexists with Tibetan Buddhism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bön canonical | 6 |
| Bön Tenjur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5983473 — 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: Bön Context triple: [Tibetan people, religion, Bön]
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A.
Bardo
Bardo is a historic district in Tunis, Tunisia, known for housing key national institutions such as the Tunisian Parliament and the Bardo National Museum.
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B.
Choynimni
Choynimni is a dialect of the Yokutsan language family traditionally spoken by Indigenous people in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
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C.
Tukje Chenpo
Tukje Chenpo is an island located within Lake Rakshastal in western Tibet, known for its remote, high-altitude setting near Mount Kailash.
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D.
Chhayanaut
Chhayanaut is a prominent Bangladeshi cultural organization renowned for promoting Bengali music, arts, and traditions, especially through its iconic celebrations of Pohela Boishakh.
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E.
Chokhamela
Chokhamela was a 14th-century Maharashtrian saint-poet from the Dalit community, revered in the Varkari bhakti movement for his deeply devotional Abhangas to Vithoba and his challenge to caste discrimination.
- 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: Bön Target entity description: Bön is an ancient indigenous spiritual tradition of Tibet characterized by shamanic rituals, nature worship, and a rich cosmology that both predates and coexists with Tibetan Buddhism.
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A.
Bardo
Bardo is a historic district in Tunis, Tunisia, known for housing key national institutions such as the Tunisian Parliament and the Bardo National Museum.
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B.
Choynimni
Choynimni is a dialect of the Yokutsan language family traditionally spoken by Indigenous people in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
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C.
Tukje Chenpo
Tukje Chenpo is an island located within Lake Rakshastal in western Tibet, known for its remote, high-altitude setting near Mount Kailash.
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D.
Chhayanaut
Chhayanaut is a prominent Bangladeshi cultural organization renowned for promoting Bengali music, arts, and traditions, especially through its iconic celebrations of Pohela Boishakh.
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E.
Chokhamela
Chokhamela was a 14th-century Maharashtrian saint-poet from the Dalit community, revered in the Varkari bhakti movement for his deeply devotional Abhangas to Vithoba and his challenge to caste discrimination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tibetan religion
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indigenous religion ⓘ religious tradition ⓘ |
| coexistsWith | Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| cosmologyFeature |
cyclical time
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enlightened beings ⓘ gods and spirits ⓘ karma ⓘ local land deities ⓘ mountain deities ⓘ multiple realms of existence ⓘ primordial Buddha-like figure ⓘ rebirth ⓘ sky realms ⓘ underworld realms ⓘ water spirits ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Tibet ⓘ |
| goal |
attainment of enlightenment
ⓘ
liberation from cyclic existence ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
animistic elements
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complex cosmology ⓘ exorcistic rites ⓘ funerary rituals ⓘ healing rituals ⓘ lineage transmission ⓘ meditation practices ⓘ monastic tradition ⓘ nature worship ⓘ oracular practices ⓘ ritual dance ⓘ ritual magic ⓘ ritual music ⓘ ritual offerings ⓘ scriptural canon ⓘ shamanic rituals ⓘ tantric practices ⓘ use of mandalas ⓘ use of mantras ⓘ use of protective amulets ⓘ use of ritual instruments ⓘ |
| hasClergy |
lamas
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monks ⓘ oracles ⓘ shamans ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
astrological divination
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guardian deities ⓘ ritual purity ⓘ ritual ransom ⓘ sacred directions ⓘ sacred lakes ⓘ sacred mountains ⓘ soul retrieval ⓘ spirit appeasement ⓘ taboos regarding natural sites ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Classical Tibetan
ⓘ
linked to:
Tibetan
Zhangzhung language ⓘ |
| hasMonastery |
Menri Monastery
ⓘ
Triten Norbutse Monastery ⓘ Yungdrung Ling Monastery ⓘ |
| hasScripture |
Bön Kanjur
ⓘ
linked to:
Bon Kanjur
Bön Tenjur ⓘ
linked to:
Bön
|
| influenced | Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| majorSchool |
Yungdrung Bön
ⓘ
linked to:
Yungdrung Bon
|
| practiceCategory |
Dzogchen teachings
ⓘ
causal Bön ⓘ resultant Bön ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
one of the five major religious traditions in the Tibetan exile community
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one of the traditional religions of Tibet ⓘ |
| region | Tibetan Plateau ⓘ |
| religiousCenter | Tibet ⓘ |
| ritualObject |
bell
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butter lamps ⓘ drum ⓘ phurba dagger ⓘ prayer flags ⓘ trumpet ⓘ |
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: Bön Description of subject: Bön is an ancient indigenous spiritual tradition of Tibet characterized by shamanic rituals, nature worship, and a rich cosmology that both predates and coexists with Tibetan Buddhism.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bön