Nergal
E196148
Nergal is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated primarily with war, plague, and the underworld.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1754830 — 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: Nergal Context triple: [Hatra, otherDeityVenerated, Nergal]
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A.
Marduk
Marduk is the chief god of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with creation, kingship, and the defeat of the chaos monster Tiamat.
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B.
Baal
Baal is a prominent ancient Near Eastern storm and fertility god widely worshipped across Phoenician and Canaanite cultures.
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C.
Baal
Baal is a 1918 expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that follows the amoral, self-destructive life of a bohemian poet.
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D.
Zahhak
Zahhak is a legendary tyrant king in Persian mythology, most famously depicted in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh as a demonic ruler with serpents growing from his shoulders.
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E.
Orcus
Orcus is a large trans-Neptunian dwarf-planet candidate in the Kuiper Belt, often considered a "twin" of Pluto due to its similar size, orbit, and composition.
- 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: Nergal Target entity description: Nergal is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated primarily with war, plague, and the underworld.
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A.
Marduk
Marduk is the chief god of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with creation, kingship, and the defeat of the chaos monster Tiamat.
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B.
Baal
Baal is a prominent ancient Near Eastern storm and fertility god widely worshipped across Phoenician and Canaanite cultures.
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C.
Baal
Baal is a 1918 expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that follows the amoral, self-destructive life of a bohemian poet.
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D.
Zahhak
Zahhak is a legendary tyrant king in Persian mythology, most famously depicted in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh as a demonic ruler with serpents growing from his shoulders.
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E.
Orcus
Orcus is a large trans-Neptunian dwarf-planet candidate in the Kuiper Belt, often considered a "twin" of Pluto due to its similar size, orbit, and composition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesopotamian god
ⓘ
deity ⓘ |
| appearsInText |
Akkadian myths
ⓘ
Assyrian royal inscriptions ⓘ Babylonian incantations ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
death
ⓘ
destruction ⓘ drought ⓘ pestilence ⓘ plague ⓘ summer heat ⓘ underworld ⓘ war ⓘ |
| consort | Ereshkigal ⓘ |
| culture | Mesopotamian religion ⓘ |
| domain |
disease
ⓘ
underworld ⓘ war ⓘ |
| epithet |
king of the underworld
ⓘ
lord of Kutha ⓘ lord of the underworld ⓘ |
| equatedWith |
Erra
ⓘ
Irra ⓘ Meslamtaea ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasTemple | E-Meslam in Kutha ⓘ |
| influenced | later Near Eastern underworld concepts ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Akkadian ⓘ |
| majorCultCenter |
Cuthah
ⓘ
Kutha ⓘ |
| mythologicalPeriod | Bronze Age ⓘ |
| parents |
Enlil
ⓘ
Ninlil ⓘ |
| region |
southern Mesopotamia
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Mesopotamia
|
| role |
chthonic deity
ⓘ
god of plague ⓘ god of the underworld ⓘ god of war ⓘ |
| rulesOver |
land of the dead
ⓘ
underworld ⓘ |
| spouse | Ereshkigal ⓘ |
| symbol |
lion
ⓘ
mace ⓘ standard with lion ⓘ |
| worshipedIn |
Akkad
ⓘ
Ancient Mesopotamia ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamia
Assyria ⓘ Babylonia ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamia
Sumer ⓘ |
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: Nergal Description of subject: Nergal is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated primarily with war, plague, and the underworld.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nergal
linked to: Nergal