Chalchiuhtlicue
E165078
Chalchiuhtlicue is an Aztec goddess associated with water, rivers, lakes, and childbirth, often depicted as a protector of women and children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chalchiuhtlicue canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1421091 — 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: Chalchiuhtlicue Context triple: [Tlaloc, spouse, Chalchiuhtlicue]
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A.
Coyolxauhqui
Coyolxauhqui is an Aztec moon goddess known from Mexica mythology, particularly for the myth in which she is dismembered by her brother Huitzilopochtli at the birth of the sun and war god.
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B.
Coatlicue
Coatlicue is an important Aztec earth and fertility goddess, often depicted in a skirt of serpents and associated with both creation and destruction.
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C.
Tlalocan
Tlalocan is the lush, paradise-like afterlife realm in Aztec mythology associated with the rain god Tlaloc, where those who died from water-related causes were believed to dwell.
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D.
Oshun
Oshun is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the goddess of fresh water, love, beauty, fertility, and diplomacy.
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E.
Tezcatlipoca
Tezcatlipoca is a major Aztec deity associated with night, sorcery, conflict, and destiny, often depicted as a powerful and unpredictable god of rulership and change.
- 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: Chalchiuhtlicue Target entity description: Chalchiuhtlicue is an Aztec goddess associated with water, rivers, lakes, and childbirth, often depicted as a protector of women and children.
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A.
Coyolxauhqui
Coyolxauhqui is an Aztec moon goddess known from Mexica mythology, particularly for the myth in which she is dismembered by her brother Huitzilopochtli at the birth of the sun and war god.
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B.
Coatlicue
Coatlicue is an important Aztec earth and fertility goddess, often depicted in a skirt of serpents and associated with both creation and destruction.
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C.
Tlalocan
Tlalocan is the lush, paradise-like afterlife realm in Aztec mythology associated with the rain god Tlaloc, where those who died from water-related causes were believed to dwell.
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D.
Oshun
Oshun is a major Yoruba orisha revered as the goddess of fresh water, love, beauty, fertility, and diplomacy.
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E.
Tezcatlipoca
Tezcatlipoca is a major Aztec deity associated with night, sorcery, conflict, and destiny, often depicted as a powerful and unpredictable god of rulership and change.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aztec goddess
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deity ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
baptism-like rituals
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birth ⓘ fertility ⓘ purification ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
floods
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lakes ⓘ midwives ⓘ newborn children ⓘ oceans ⓘ rain ⓘ rivers ⓘ seas ⓘ springs ⓘ storms ⓘ water ⓘ |
| culture |
Aztec
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linked to:
Aztec culture
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| depictedWith |
jade skirt
ⓘ
shells ⓘ water streams ⓘ waves ⓘ |
| domain |
childbirth
ⓘ
waters of the earth ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole |
bringer of floods
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protector during childbirth ⓘ provider of life-giving waters ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Classical Nahuatl ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | She of the Jade Skirt ⓘ |
| pantheon |
Aztec pantheon
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linked to:
Aztec mythology
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| relatedDeity |
Huitzilopochtli
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Tlaloc ⓘ |
| role |
goddess of lakes
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goddess of rivers ⓘ goddess of running water ⓘ goddess of seas ⓘ patron of childbirth ⓘ protector of children ⓘ protector of women ⓘ |
| spouseOrConsort | Tlaloc ⓘ |
| symbol |
jade
ⓘ
shells ⓘ water ⓘ waves ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Aztecs
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linked to:
Mexica
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| worshippedIn | Central Mexico ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod |
Postclassic Mesoamerica
ⓘ
linked to:
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica
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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: Chalchiuhtlicue Description of subject: Chalchiuhtlicue is an Aztec goddess associated with water, rivers, lakes, and childbirth, often depicted as a protector of women and children.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.