Mawu
E663920
Mawu is the benevolent supreme creator goddess in West African Vodun religion, often associated with the moon, fertility, and cosmic order.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mawu canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7415285 — 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: Mawu Context triple: [Vodun, hasSupremeBeingName, Mawu]
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A.
Mawu
Mawu is an alternative name for the Siwu language, a Kwa language spoken by the Mawu and Akpafu people in eastern Ghana.
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B.
Mawé
Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
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C.
Mawanella
Mawanella is a town in central Sri Lanka known as a key transit point on the Colombo–Kandy road and for its surrounding rubber and tea plantations.
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D.
Mokuola
Mokuola is a small, lush island in Hilo Bay on Hawaii’s Big Island, known for its tranquil park, tidal pools, and scenic views of the bay and Mauna Kea.
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E.
Mawteni
Mawteni is an alternative Romanized spelling of "Mawtini," the famous Arabic patriotic poem and anthem widely associated with Palestinian and Iraqi national identity.
- 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: Mawu Target entity description: Mawu is the benevolent supreme creator goddess in West African Vodun religion, often associated with the moon, fertility, and cosmic order.
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A.
Mawu
Mawu is an alternative name for the Siwu language, a Kwa language spoken by the Mawu and Akpafu people in eastern Ghana.
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B.
Mawé
Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
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C.
Mawanella
Mawanella is a town in central Sri Lanka known as a key transit point on the Colombo–Kandy road and for its surrounding rubber and tea plantations.
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D.
Mokuola
Mokuola is a small, lush island in Hilo Bay on Hawaii’s Big Island, known for its tranquil park, tidal pools, and scenic views of the bay and Mauna Kea.
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E.
Mawteni
Mawteni is an alternative Romanized spelling of "Mawtini," the famous Arabic patriotic poem and anthem widely associated with Palestinian and Iraqi national identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
coolness
ⓘ
cosmic order ⓘ creation ⓘ fertility ⓘ gentleness ⓘ moon ⓘ motherhood ⓘ night ⓘ |
| complementaryAspect | Lisa ⓘ |
| conceptualizedAs |
mother of the gods
ⓘ
source of moral law ⓘ |
| consort | Lisa ⓘ |
| cosmicDomain |
heaven
ⓘ
moon ⓘ sky ⓘ |
| creatorOf |
animals
ⓘ
humans ⓘ plants ⓘ world ⓘ |
| culture |
Ewe people
ⓘ
linked to:
Ewe
Fon people ⓘ |
| ethnicContext |
Ewe
ⓘ
Fon ⓘ |
| formsDualDeityWith | Mawu-Lisa ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Ewe
ⓘ
Fon ⓘ |
| moralCharacter |
benevolent
ⓘ
compassionate ⓘ just ⓘ |
| nameType | theonym ⓘ |
| parentOf | various Vodun deities ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| religion |
Vodun
ⓘ
West African Vodun ⓘ
linked to:
Vodun
|
| role |
cosmic order maintainer
ⓘ
fertility goddess ⓘ supreme creator ⓘ |
| spouse | Lisa ⓘ |
| worshipPractice |
honored in Vodun rituals
ⓘ
invoked for blessings ⓘ invoked for fertility ⓘ invoked for protection ⓘ |
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: Mawu Description of subject: Mawu is the benevolent supreme creator goddess in West African Vodun religion, often associated with the moon, fertility, and cosmic order.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.