Oko (Òkò, agriculture deity)
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Oko (Òkò) is a Yoruba orisha revered as the deity of agriculture, fertility, and the harvest, overseeing the growth and abundance of cultivated land.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oko (Òkò, agriculture deity) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11797045 — 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: Oko (Òkò, agriculture deity) Context triple: [Yoruba orishas, hasNotableMember, Oko (Òkò, agriculture deity)]
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A.
Olokun
Olokun is a prominent West African deity associated with the sea, wealth, fertility, and the depths of spiritual wisdom, especially revered in Edo and Yoruba religious traditions.
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B.
Ogun
Ogun is a major Yoruba deity revered as the god of iron, war, and craftsmanship, often associated with metalworking, technology, and the clearing of paths.
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C.
Oduduwa
Oduduwa is a revered primordial figure in Yoruba mythology, regarded as the progenitor of the Yoruba people and a key creator deity associated with the founding of Ile-Ife.
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D.
Oba Ozolua
Oba Ozolua was a powerful 15th–16th century ruler of the Kingdom of Benin, renowned for his military conquests and expansion of the empire’s influence in West Africa.
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E.
Omoloko
Omoloko is an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition that blends Yoruba-derived orixá worship with elements of other African, Indigenous, and Catholic spiritual practices.
- 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: Oko (Òkò, agriculture deity) Target entity description: Oko (Òkò) is a Yoruba orisha revered as the deity of agriculture, fertility, and the harvest, overseeing the growth and abundance of cultivated land.
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A.
Olokun
Olokun is a prominent West African deity associated with the sea, wealth, fertility, and the depths of spiritual wisdom, especially revered in Edo and Yoruba religious traditions.
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B.
Ogun
Ogun is a major Yoruba deity revered as the god of iron, war, and craftsmanship, often associated with metalworking, technology, and the clearing of paths.
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C.
Oduduwa
Oduduwa is a revered primordial figure in Yoruba mythology, regarded as the progenitor of the Yoruba people and a key creator deity associated with the founding of Ile-Ife.
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D.
Oba Ozolua
Oba Ozolua was a powerful 15th–16th century ruler of the Kingdom of Benin, renowned for his military conquests and expansion of the empire’s influence in West Africa.
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E.
Omoloko
Omoloko is an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition that blends Yoruba-derived orixá worship with elements of other African, Indigenous, and Catholic spiritual practices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yoruba deity
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agriculture deity ⓘ fertility deity ⓘ harvest deity ⓘ orisha ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Òkò ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
bountiful harvests
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crop growth ⓘ farmers ⓘ rural life ⓘ soil fertility ⓘ |
| belongsToPantheon | Yoruba pantheon ⓘ |
| concernedWith |
food security
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human sustenance ⓘ |
| culture | Yoruba people ⓘ |
| domain |
agriculture
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cultivated land ⓘ fertility ⓘ harvest ⓘ |
| gender | male deity ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
protector of rural communities
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provider of abundance ⓘ |
| invokedFor |
good harvest
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increase in farm productivity ⓘ protection from crop failure ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole |
ensures the growth of cultivated land
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regulates agricultural cycles ⓘ |
| religion | Yoruba religion ⓘ |
| ritualFocus |
harvest season
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planting season ⓘ |
| role |
bringer of agricultural abundance
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guardian of farms ⓘ protector of cultivated fields ⓘ |
| symbolicAssociation |
farm tools
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grains ⓘ plowed fields ⓘ yams ⓘ |
| typeOf |
earth-related deity
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nature deity ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Benin region
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Southwestern Nigeria ⓘ
linked to:
Western Nigeria
Togo region ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Yoruba farmers
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rural Yoruba communities ⓘ |
| worshipPractices |
offerings of first fruits
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seasonal agricultural festivals ⓘ |
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: Oko (Òkò, agriculture deity) Description of subject: Oko (Òkò) is a Yoruba orisha revered as the deity of agriculture, fertility, and the harvest, overseeing the growth and abundance of cultivated land.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.