Yamāntaka
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Yamāntaka is a wrathful tantric deity in Tibetan Buddhism, especially revered in the Gelug tradition as a fierce manifestation of Manjushri who conquers death and ignorance.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yamāntaka canonical | 2 |
| Solitary Hero Yamāntaka | 1 |
| thirteen-deity Yamāntaka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9979433 — 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: Yamāntaka Context triple: [Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, primaryTantricDeitySystems, Yamāntaka]
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A.
Narakasura
Narakasura is a powerful demon king in Hindu mythology, best known for his tyranny, abduction of women, and eventual slaying by Krishna and Satyabhama, commemorated during the festival of Diwali.
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B.
Sadyojata
Sadyojata is one of the five faces of Lord Shiva, symbolizing creation and the westward aspect of the deity in Shaivite tradition.
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C.
Angaraja
Angaraja is an epithet of Karna, the legendary warrior king from the Indian epic Mahabharata renowned for his valor, loyalty, and tragic fate.
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D.
Yamaraja
Yamaraja is the Hindu god of death and justice, who judges the souls of the dead and presides over the afterlife.
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E.
Mahakal
Mahakal is a fierce form of the Hindu god Shiva, revered as the timeless destroyer of evil and the presiding deity of the famous Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga temple in Ujjain.
- 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: Yamāntaka Target entity description: Yamāntaka is a wrathful tantric deity in Tibetan Buddhism, especially revered in the Gelug tradition as a fierce manifestation of Manjushri who conquers death and ignorance.
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A.
Narakasura
Narakasura is a powerful demon king in Hindu mythology, best known for his tyranny, abduction of women, and eventual slaying by Krishna and Satyabhama, commemorated during the festival of Diwali.
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B.
Sadyojata
Sadyojata is one of the five faces of Lord Shiva, symbolizing creation and the westward aspect of the deity in Shaivite tradition.
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C.
Angaraja
Angaraja is an epithet of Karna, the legendary warrior king from the Indian epic Mahabharata renowned for his valor, loyalty, and tragic fate.
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D.
Yamaraja
Yamaraja is the Hindu god of death and justice, who judges the souls of the dead and presides over the afterlife.
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E.
Mahakal
Mahakal is a fierce form of the Hindu god Shiva, revered as the timeless destroyer of evil and the presiding deity of the famous Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga temple in Ujjain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist deity
ⓘ
dharmapāla ⓘ tantric deity ⓘ wrathful deity ⓘ yidam ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
emptiness
ⓘ
wrathful compassion ⓘ |
| associatedPractice | Chöd of ego-clinging ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Anuttarayoga Tantra
ⓘ
Highest Yoga Tantra ⓘ
linked to:
Anuttarayoga Tantra
|
| color | dark blue ⓘ |
| consort | Vajravegī ⓘ |
| function | subjugation of Yama ⓘ |
| goalOfPractice |
overcoming fear of death
ⓘ
realization of Buddhahood ⓘ |
| hasForm |
Solitary Hero Yamāntaka
ⓘ
linked to:
Yamāntaka
Vajrabhairava ⓘ
linked to:
Heruka
thirteen-deity Yamāntaka ⓘ
linked to:
Yamāntaka
|
| holds |
curved knife
ⓘ
skull cup ⓘ vajra ⓘ |
| iconographicFeature |
buffalo head
ⓘ
multiple arms ⓘ multiple heads ⓘ multiple legs ⓘ wrathful expression ⓘ |
| mainText | Vajrabhairava Tantra ⓘ |
| manifestationOf |
Mañjuśrī
ⓘ
linked to:
Manjushri
|
| mount | buffalo ⓘ |
| opposes | Yama ⓘ |
| practiceType |
completion stage
ⓘ
deity yoga ⓘ generation stage ⓘ |
| realm | charnel grounds ⓘ |
| religion | Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| role |
conqueror of death
ⓘ
destroyer of ignorance ⓘ |
| SanskritName | Yamāntaka ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
cutting through ignorance
ⓘ
overcoming fear ⓘ victory over death ⓘ |
| tantraClass | Father Tantra ⓘ |
| TibetanName | gShin-rje gshed ⓘ |
| tradition |
Gelug
ⓘ
linked to:
Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
Vajrayāna ⓘ
linked to:
Vajrayana
|
| worshippedBy |
Gelug school
ⓘ
linked to:
Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
Kagyu school ⓘ
linked to:
Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism
Nyingma school ⓘ Sakya school ⓘ |
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: Yamāntaka Description of subject: Yamāntaka is a wrathful tantric deity in Tibetan Buddhism, especially revered in the Gelug tradition as a fierce manifestation of Manjushri who conquers death and ignorance.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.