土地公
E759816
土地公 is a widely venerated Chinese folk deity regarded as the local earth god who protects land, homes, and community prosperity.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8798807 — 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: 土地公 Context triple: [Tudigong, ChineseName, 土地公]
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A.
天神
天神 is a Japanese Shinto deity most commonly associated with scholarship and learning, often identified with the deified scholar Sugawara no Michizane.
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B.
Ông Công Ông Táo
Ông Công Ông Táo are household deities in Vietnamese folk belief who oversee the family’s kitchen and domestic affairs and report annually to the Jade Emperor in heaven.
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C.
Chenghuangshen
Chenghuangshen is a traditional Chinese city god deity believed to protect and oversee the affairs, justice, and welfare of a specific city and its inhabitants.
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D.
Caishen
Caishen is the Chinese god of wealth and prosperity, widely venerated in folk religion and popular culture as a bringer of good fortune and financial success.
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E.
太郎
太郎 is a common Japanese male given name, traditionally used for the eldest son and written with kanji meaning "great" and "son."
- 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: 土地公 Target entity description: 土地公 is a widely venerated Chinese folk deity regarded as the local earth god who protects land, homes, and community prosperity.
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A.
天神
天神 is a Japanese Shinto deity most commonly associated with scholarship and learning, often identified with the deified scholar Sugawara no Michizane.
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B.
Ông Công Ông Táo
Ông Công Ông Táo are household deities in Vietnamese folk belief who oversee the family’s kitchen and domestic affairs and report annually to the Jade Emperor in heaven.
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C.
Chenghuangshen
Chenghuangshen is a traditional Chinese city god deity believed to protect and oversee the affairs, justice, and welfare of a specific city and its inhabitants.
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D.
Caishen
Caishen is the Chinese god of wealth and prosperity, widely venerated in folk religion and popular culture as a bringer of good fortune and financial success.
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E.
太郎
太郎 is a common Japanese male given name, traditionally used for the eldest son and written with kanji meaning "great" and "son."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese folk deity
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agricultural deity ⓘ earth god ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Tu Di Gong
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Tudigong ⓘ 土地神 ⓘ
linked to:
土地公
社神 ⓘ 福德正神 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
earth element
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fertility of the soil ⓘ good harvests ⓘ local boundaries ⓘ wealth ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
one of the most popular grassroots deities in Chinese religion
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symbol of local community identity ⓘ |
| function |
blesses new businesses
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blesses new houses ⓘ mediates between humans and higher gods ⓘ protects construction sites ⓘ receives petitions for local matters ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasPlaceOfWorship |
household altars
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small roadside shrines ⓘ 土地公廟 ⓘ |
| hasRole |
guardian of graves
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protector of community prosperity ⓘ protector of homes ⓘ protector of land ⓘ protector of merchants ⓘ protector of travelers ⓘ protector of villages ⓘ provider of wealth ⓘ |
| iconography |
depicted as an elderly man
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often depicted holding a gold ingot ⓘ often depicted holding a staff ⓘ often depicted with white beard ⓘ |
| majorFestival |
2nd day of the 2nd lunar month
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birthday of 土地公 ⓘ |
| offering |
cakes
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fruit ⓘ incense ⓘ paper money ⓘ rice wine ⓘ tea ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
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Taoism ⓘ |
| spouse |
土地婆
ⓘ
linked to:
福德正神
|
| worshipedBy |
Han Chinese communities
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overseas Chinese communities ⓘ |
| worshipedIn |
China
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Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Indonesia ⓘ Macau ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Singapore ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
Thailand ⓘ Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
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: 土地公 Description of subject: 土地公 is a widely venerated Chinese folk deity regarded as the local earth god who protects land, homes, and community prosperity.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.