Tianhou
E759818
Tianhou, also known as Mazu, is a widely venerated Chinese sea goddess and patron deity of sailors and coastal communities.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tianhou canonical | 1 |
| Tin Hau | 1 |
| Tin Hau (Chinese sea goddess) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8798826 — 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: Tianhou Context triple: [Tudigong, relatedDeity, Tianhou]
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A.
Kong Miao
Kong Miao is a Confucian temple complex dedicated to honoring the philosopher Confucius and preserving Confucian rituals and traditions.
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B.
Bixia Yuanjun
Bixia Yuanjun is a prominent Taoist goddess of dawn, childbirth, and destiny, widely venerated in northern China and especially revered as the patron deity of Mount Tai.
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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.
Dongyue Emperor
The Dongyue Emperor is a major Taoist deity revered as the sovereign of Mount Tai and a powerful judge of the underworld and human fate.
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E.
Kuangyin
Kuangyin, better known as Emperor Taizu of Song, was the founding emperor of China’s Song dynasty who reunified much of the country after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
- 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: Tianhou Target entity description: Tianhou, also known as Mazu, is a widely venerated Chinese sea goddess and patron deity of sailors and coastal communities.
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A.
Kong Miao
Kong Miao is a Confucian temple complex dedicated to honoring the philosopher Confucius and preserving Confucian rituals and traditions.
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B.
Bixia Yuanjun
Bixia Yuanjun is a prominent Taoist goddess of dawn, childbirth, and destiny, widely venerated in northern China and especially revered as the patron deity of Mount Tai.
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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.
Dongyue Emperor
The Dongyue Emperor is a major Taoist deity revered as the sovereign of Mount Tai and a powerful judge of the underworld and human fate.
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E.
Kuangyin
Kuangyin, better known as Emperor Taizu of Song, was the founding emperor of China’s Song dynasty who reunified much of the country after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese folk religion deity
ⓘ
Chinese sea goddess ⓘ deity ⓘ patron goddess of sailors ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ma-tsu
ⓘ
Matsu ⓘ
linked to:
Matsu Islands
Mazu ⓘ |
| associatedReligionPractice |
pilgrimage
ⓘ
processions ⓘ spirit mediumship ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
maritime safety
ⓘ
rescue at sea ⓘ shipwrecks ⓘ storms ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| domain |
navigation
ⓘ
sea ⓘ |
| festival | Mazu birthday ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
benevolent
ⓘ
miracle-working ⓘ protective ⓘ |
| hasTempleType |
Mazu temple
ⓘ
linked to:
Mazu temples
Tianhou temple ⓘ |
| mythologicalStatus | deified historical woman ⓘ |
| originRegion |
Fujian
ⓘ
Meizhou Island ⓘ |
| patronage |
fishermen
ⓘ
merchants ⓘ sailors ⓘ seafaring people ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese Buddhism
ⓘ
Chinese folk religion ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
| role |
patron deity of sailors
ⓘ
protector of coastal communities ⓘ protector of fishermen ⓘ |
| symbol |
dragon boats
ⓘ
lanterns ⓘ sea waves ⓘ |
| title |
Empress of Heaven
ⓘ
Heavenly Empress ⓘ
linked to:
Empress of Heaven
|
| veneratedIn |
China
ⓘ
Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Macau ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
overseas Chinese communities ⓘ |
| worshipType |
popular religion
ⓘ
temple cult ⓘ |
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: Tianhou Description of subject: Tianhou, also known as Mazu, is a widely venerated Chinese sea goddess and patron deity of sailors and coastal communities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tianhou
linked to: Tianhou