Sango
E952037
Sango is a powerful Yoruba thunder and lightning deity widely venerated across southwestern Nigeria and in the African diaspora.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sango canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11885393 — 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: Sango Context triple: [Ijebu people, traditionalReligionDeity, Sango]
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A.
Sango
Sango is a Central African lingua franca and national language of the Central African Republic, originating as a Ngbandi-based trade language.
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B.
Tanno
Tanno is a district or locality within the city of Kitami in Hokkaido, Japan.
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C.
Ogunai
Ogunai is a small riverside settlement located along the Fly River in Papua New Guinea.
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D.
Masego
Masego is an American musician, singer, and producer known for his genre-blending "TrapHouseJazz" style that fuses jazz, R&B, and hip-hop.
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E.
Shingu
Shingu is a coastal city in Japan known for its historic Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine and its role as a gateway to the sacred Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes.
- 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: Sango Target entity description: Sango is a powerful Yoruba thunder and lightning deity widely venerated across southwestern Nigeria and in the African diaspora.
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A.
Sango
Sango is a Central African lingua franca and national language of the Central African Republic, originating as a Ngbandi-based trade language.
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B.
Tanno
Tanno is a district or locality within the city of Kitami in Hokkaido, Japan.
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C.
Ogunai
Ogunai is a small riverside settlement located along the Fly River in Papua New Guinea.
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D.
Masego
Masego is an American musician, singer, and producer known for his genre-blending "TrapHouseJazz" style that fuses jazz, R&B, and hip-hop.
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E.
Shingu
Shingu is a coastal city in Japan known for its historic Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine and its role as a gateway to the sacred Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yoruba deity
ⓘ
lightning deity ⓘ orisha ⓘ thunder deity ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Oyo ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
dance
ⓘ
drumming ⓘ fire ⓘ justice ⓘ lightning ⓘ power ⓘ royalty ⓘ thunder ⓘ war ⓘ |
| color |
red
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| cultCenter | Oyo ⓘ |
| dayOfWorship | Thursday ⓘ |
| equivalentInBrazil | Xango ⓘ |
| equivalentInCuba | Chango ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
charisma
ⓘ
oratory skill ⓘ quick temper ⓘ |
| hasFestival |
Sango festival
ⓘ
linked to:
Sango Festival
|
| hasTitle | Alaafin of Oyo ⓘ |
| parent |
Aganju
ⓘ
Yemaya ⓘ
linked to:
Yemoja
|
| religion |
Ifa tradition
ⓘ
Yoruba religion ⓘ |
| role |
dispensor of justice
ⓘ
protector of the community ⓘ |
| spouse |
Oba
ⓘ
Oshun ⓘ Oya ⓘ |
| symbol |
double-headed axe
ⓘ
thunderstone ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
African diaspora
ⓘ
Benin ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Haiti ⓘ Oyo region ⓘ
linked to:
Oyo
Southwestern Nigeria ⓘ
linked to:
Western Nigeria
Togo ⓘ Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ |
| weapon |
double-headed axe
ⓘ
lightning bolts ⓘ |
| worshipForm |
drumming rituals
ⓘ
possession trance ⓘ |
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: Sango Description of subject: Sango is a powerful Yoruba thunder and lightning deity widely venerated across southwestern Nigeria and in the African diaspora.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.