Left-Handed Hummingbird
E160470
Left-Handed Hummingbird is the English translation of the Nahuatl name "Huitzilopochtli," the powerful Aztec god of the sun and war.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Left-Handed Hummingbird canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1396909 — 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: Left-Handed Hummingbird Context triple: [Huitzilopochtli, nameMeaning, Left-Handed Hummingbird]
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A.
Red Bird
Red Bird was a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) leader who led a notable Native American resistance against U.S. expansion in the early 19th century.
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B.
Venetian Bird
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British film noir thriller, also known as The Assassin, in which Sterling Hayden plays an American private investigator entangled in political intrigue in postwar Venice.
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C.
Martlets
Martlets is the name of McGill University's women's varsity sports teams, known for their strong athletic tradition in Canadian university sports.
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D.
Finch
Finch is a 2021 post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film starring Tom Hanks as a lone survivor who builds a robot to care for his dog.
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E.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
- 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: Left-Handed Hummingbird Target entity description: Left-Handed Hummingbird is the English translation of the Nahuatl name "Huitzilopochtli," the powerful Aztec god of the sun and war.
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A.
Red Bird
Red Bird was a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) leader who led a notable Native American resistance against U.S. expansion in the early 19th century.
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B.
Venetian Bird
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British film noir thriller, also known as The Assassin, in which Sterling Hayden plays an American private investigator entangled in political intrigue in postwar Venice.
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C.
Martlets
Martlets is the name of McGill University's women's varsity sports teams, known for their strong athletic tradition in Canadian university sports.
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D.
Finch
Finch is a 2021 post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film starring Tom Hanks as a lone survivor who builds a robot to care for his dog.
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E.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aztec deity
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Mesoamerican deity ⓘ solar deity ⓘ war deity ⓘ |
| altTransliteration |
Uitzilopochtli
ⓘ
linked to:
Huitzilopochtli
|
| associatedAnimal | hummingbird ⓘ |
| associatedColor | blue ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
imperial expansion
ⓘ
sacred war ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
human sacrifice
ⓘ
hummingbird ⓘ sun ⓘ war ⓘ |
| cosmicFunction | maintaining movement of the sun ⓘ |
| culture |
Aztec
ⓘ
linked to:
Aztec culture
|
| depictedAs |
figure with hummingbird helmet
ⓘ
warrior ⓘ |
| direction | south ⓘ |
| englishName | Left-Handed Hummingbird ⓘ |
| equivalentIn | Mesoamerican solar-war deities ⓘ |
| eraOfWorship |
Postclassic Mesoamerica
ⓘ
linked to:
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica
|
| festival | Panquetzaliztli ⓘ |
| linkedTo | Mexica state ideology ⓘ |
| majorDeityIn |
Aztec pantheon
ⓘ
linked to:
Aztec mythology
|
| mythEvent |
defeat of Coyolxauhqui
ⓘ
linked to:
Coyolxauhqui
|
| mythRole | leader of Mexica migration ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Nahuatl ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Left-Handed Hummingbird ⓘ |
| pantheonRank | one of the principal Aztec gods ⓘ |
| parent | Coatlicue ⓘ |
| religion |
Aztec religion
ⓘ
linked to:
Aztec mythology
|
| role |
patron god of Tenochtitlan
ⓘ
protector of the Mexica people ⓘ |
| sacrificeType | human hearts ⓘ |
| sibling |
Centzon Huitznahua
ⓘ
Coyolxauhqui ⓘ |
| symbol |
blue paint
ⓘ
hummingbird feathers ⓘ serpent-shaped weapon ⓘ shield ⓘ |
| templeSharedWith | Tlaloc ⓘ |
| weapon | Xiuhcoatl ⓘ |
| worshipCenter | Templo Mayor ⓘ |
| worshipCity | Tenochtitlan ⓘ |
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: Left-Handed Hummingbird Description of subject: Left-Handed Hummingbird is the English translation of the Nahuatl name "Huitzilopochtli," the powerful Aztec god of the sun and war.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.