Svetovid
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Svetovid is a major Slavic deity, often depicted with four heads and associated with war, abundance, and prophecy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Svetovid canonical | 2 |
| Svantovit (or related Slavic war gods) | 1 |
| Sventovit | 1 |
| Yarilo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8783289 — 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: Svetovid Context triple: [Slavic mythology, hasCoreDeity, Svetovid]
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A.
Veles
Veles is a city in central North Macedonia known as an important industrial and transportation hub situated along the Vardar River.
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B.
Hakunila
Hakunila is a residential district in the city of Vantaa, Finland, known for its diverse population, apartment housing, and proximity to nature and outdoor recreation areas.
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C.
Surtr
Surtr is a fire giant and ruler of Muspelheim in Norse mythology, prophesied to lead the forces of fire at Ragnarök and bring about the world's destruction.
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D.
Ullr
Ullr is a Norse god associated with skiing, archery, and winter, often regarded as a skilled hunter and warrior.
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E.
Hodr
Hodr is a blind god in Norse mythology, best known for being tricked into killing his brother Baldr.
- 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: Svetovid Target entity description: Svetovid is a major Slavic deity, often depicted with four heads and associated with war, abundance, and prophecy.
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A.
Veles
Veles is a city in central North Macedonia known as an important industrial and transportation hub situated along the Vardar River.
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B.
Hakunila
Hakunila is a residential district in the city of Vantaa, Finland, known for its diverse population, apartment housing, and proximity to nature and outdoor recreation areas.
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C.
Surtr
Surtr is a fire giant and ruler of Muspelheim in Norse mythology, prophesied to lead the forces of fire at Ragnarök and bring about the world's destruction.
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D.
Ullr
Ullr is a Norse god associated with skiing, archery, and winter, often regarded as a skilled hunter and warrior.
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E.
Hodr
Hodr is a blind god in Norse mythology, best known for being tricked into killing his brother Baldr.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Slavic deity
ⓘ
fertility deity ⓘ war deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
abundance
ⓘ
divination ⓘ fertility ⓘ prophecy ⓘ war ⓘ |
| considered | chief god by Rani Slavs ⓘ |
| culture | Slavic ⓘ |
| depictedWith |
four faces
ⓘ
horn of plenty ⓘ sword ⓘ white horse ⓘ |
| domain |
harvest
ⓘ
oracles ⓘ warfare ⓘ wealth ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
four directional aspects
ⓘ
guardian of the world ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
all-seeing
ⓘ
four-headed ⓘ |
| hasColorAssociation |
red
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| hasRitual |
annual feast after harvest
ⓘ
divination using a sacred white horse ⓘ libations poured into horn of plenty ⓘ |
| influenced | modern Slavic neopaganism ⓘ |
| mainCultCenter |
Arkona
ⓘ
island of Rügen ⓘ
linked to:
Rügen
|
| mentionedIn | medieval Christian chronicles about Slavs ⓘ |
| nameEtymologyRelatedTo | Slavic root for seeing ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Svantevit
ⓘ
linked to:
Svantovit
Svantovit ⓘ Sventovit ⓘ
linked to:
Svetovid
|
| notableTempleDestroyedBy | Danish crusaders ⓘ |
| notableTempleDestructionYear | 1168 ⓘ |
| pantheon | Polabian Slavic pantheon ⓘ |
| region |
Baltic coast
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltic Sea coast region
Polabia ⓘ
linked to:
Lusatia
|
| religion | Slavic paganism ⓘ |
| symbol |
horn of abundance
ⓘ
white horse ⓘ |
| worshipedBy |
Rani Slavs
ⓘ
Western Slavs ⓘ
linked to:
West Slavs
|
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: Svetovid Description of subject: Svetovid is a major Slavic deity, often depicted with four heads and associated with war, abundance, and prophecy.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Svetovid
linked to: Svetovid