Cuban Vodú
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Cuban Vodú is an Afro-Caribbean religious tradition in Cuba that blends West African Vodun beliefs with elements of Catholicism and local spiritual practices.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Afro-Cuban religions | 2 |
| Cuban Vodú canonical | 1 |
| Dominican Vudú | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7415305 — 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: Cuban Vodú Context triple: [Vodun, influenced, Cuban Vodú]
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A.
Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion from Haiti that blends West and Central African spiritual traditions with Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of spirits called lwa.
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B.
Santería
Santería is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that blends Yoruba spiritual traditions with elements of Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of orishas through rituals, divination, and offerings.
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C.
Vodun
Vodun is a traditional West African religion centered on the worship of spirits and ancestors, particularly prominent in Benin and neighboring regions.
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D.
Lucumí
Lucumí is a liturgical Afro-Cuban language variety derived mainly from Yoruba, used in Santería/Regla de Ocha religious rituals.
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E.
Candomblé
Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian religion that blends traditional Yoruba, Fon, and Bantu beliefs with elements of Catholicism, centered on the worship of orixás through music, dance, and ritual offerings.
- 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: Cuban Vodú Target entity description: Cuban Vodú is an Afro-Caribbean religious tradition in Cuba that blends West African Vodun beliefs with elements of Catholicism and local spiritual practices.
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A.
Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion from Haiti that blends West and Central African spiritual traditions with Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of spirits called lwa.
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B.
Santería
Santería is a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that blends Yoruba spiritual traditions with elements of Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, centered on the worship of orishas through rituals, divination, and offerings.
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C.
Vodun
Vodun is a traditional West African religion centered on the worship of spirits and ancestors, particularly prominent in Benin and neighboring regions.
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D.
Lucumí
Lucumí is a liturgical Afro-Cuban language variety derived mainly from Yoruba, used in Santería/Regla de Ocha religious rituals.
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E.
Candomblé
Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian religion that blends traditional Yoruba, Fon, and Bantu beliefs with elements of Catholicism, centered on the worship of orixás through music, dance, and ritual offerings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African diasporic religion
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Afro-Caribbean religion ⓘ syncretic religion ⓘ |
| country | Cuba ⓘ |
| developedFrom | enslaved Africans in colonial Cuba ⓘ |
| hasBelief |
intermediary deities
ⓘ
nature spirits ⓘ spirit possession as communication with deities ⓘ spirits of the dead ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
guidance from spirits
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healing ⓘ protection ⓘ resolution of personal and social problems ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Cuba ⓘ |
| hasPractice |
altar offerings
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ancestor veneration ⓘ animal sacrifice ⓘ divination ⓘ healing rituals ⓘ ritual drumming ⓘ sacred dance ⓘ spirit possession ⓘ trance rituals ⓘ |
| hasRitualObject |
Catholic images
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candles ⓘ offerings of food and drink ⓘ ritual drums ⓘ |
| hasRitualSpace |
home altars
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temples ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Atlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ewe religious traditions
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Fon religious traditions ⓘ Kardecist Spiritism ⓘ
linked to:
Cuban Espiritismo
Kongo religious traditions ⓘ Roman Catholicism ⓘ West African Vodun ⓘ
linked to:
Vodun
Yoruba religious traditions ⓘ indigenous Caribbean spiritual practices ⓘ |
| isTypeOf | Vodou tradition ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Catholicism
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
Vodun ⓘ spiritism ⓘ |
| sharesFeatureWith |
Brazilian Candomblé
ⓘ
linked to:
Candomblé
Dominican Vudú ⓘ
linked to:
Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou ⓘ Santería ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
Spanish
ⓘ
ritual African languages ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cuban Vodú Description of subject: Cuban Vodú is an Afro-Caribbean religious tradition in Cuba that blends West African Vodun beliefs with elements of Catholicism and local spiritual practices.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cuban Vodú
linked to: Cuban Vodú
linked to: Cuban Vodú