hounon
E663922
A hounon is a priest or priestess in the Vodun religion who leads rituals, maintains temples, and serves as an intermediary between devotees and the spirits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| hounon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7415298 — 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: hounon Context triple: [Vodun, hasClergyTitle, hounon]
-
A.
HON
HON is the stock ticker symbol for Honeywell International Inc., a major American multinational conglomerate specializing in aerospace, building technologies, performance materials, and safety solutions.
-
B.
Heno
Heno is a Welsh-language television magazine programme broadcast on S4C, featuring news, interviews, and cultural stories from across Wales.
-
C.
Hov
Hov is a small village on the Faroe Islands' southernmost island of Suðuroy, known for its coastal setting and traditional Faroese character.
-
D.
Ho
Ho is the given name of the Korean-born contemporary artist Do Ho Suh, known for his large-scale installations exploring space, memory, and identity.
-
E.
Ho
Ho are an indigenous Adivasi community of eastern India, primarily inhabiting parts of Jharkhand and Odisha, known for their Austroasiatic Ho language and distinct cultural traditions.
- 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: hounon Target entity description: A hounon is a priest or priestess in the Vodun religion who leads rituals, maintains temples, and serves as an intermediary between devotees and the spirits.
-
A.
HON
HON is the stock ticker symbol for Honeywell International Inc., a major American multinational conglomerate specializing in aerospace, building technologies, performance materials, and safety solutions.
-
B.
Heno
Heno is a Welsh-language television magazine programme broadcast on S4C, featuring news, interviews, and cultural stories from across Wales.
-
C.
Hov
Hov is a small village on the Faroe Islands' southernmost island of Suðuroy, known for its coastal setting and traditional Faroese character.
-
D.
Ho
Ho is the given name of the Korean-born contemporary artist Do Ho Suh, known for his large-scale installations exploring space, memory, and identity.
-
E.
Ho
"Ho" is a track featured on Ludacris's debut studio album "Back for the First Time."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Vodun religious specialist
ⓘ
priest ⓘ priestess ⓘ religious role ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Vodun altars
ⓘ
Vodun spirits ⓘ
linked to:
Vodun
Vodun temples ⓘ ancestor veneration ⓘ |
| authorityOver |
Vodun devotees
ⓘ
junior ritual assistants ⓘ |
| culture |
Ewe people
ⓘ
linked to:
Ewe
Fon people ⓘ Yoruba-influenced Vodun communities ⓘ |
| function |
ensures ritual correctness
ⓘ
maintains relationship with tutelary deities ⓘ mediates between human community and spirits ⓘ |
| gender |
female
ⓘ
male ⓘ |
| languageOrigin | Fon language ⓘ |
| mayBeAssistedBy |
acolytes
ⓘ
drummers ⓘ singers ⓘ |
| performs |
community ceremonies
ⓘ
healing rituals ⓘ protective rituals ⓘ seasonal festivals ⓘ |
| practicedIn |
Benin
ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ Haiti ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ Togo ⓘ |
| religion |
Vodun
ⓘ
Voodoo ⓘ |
| requires |
initiation
ⓘ
knowledge of Vodun pantheon ⓘ ritual training ⓘ |
| role |
conducts initiation ceremonies
ⓘ
interprets messages from spirits ⓘ leads Vodun rituals ⓘ maintains Vodun temples ⓘ offers sacrifices to spirits ⓘ performs divination ⓘ preserves ritual knowledge ⓘ provides spiritual counseling ⓘ serves as intermediary between devotees and spirits ⓘ |
| transmission |
can be conferred by spirits through calling
ⓘ
often hereditary within families ⓘ |
| uses | ritual objects such as drums, rattles, and altars ⓘ |
| wears | ritual garments ⓘ |
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: hounon Description of subject: A hounon is a priest or priestess in the Vodun religion who leads rituals, maintains temples, and serves as an intermediary between devotees and the spirits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.