Nanna
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Nanna is the Sumerian moon god, a major deity associated with wisdom, fertility, and the measurement of time.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nanna canonical | 25 |
| Nanna in Ur | 1 |
| Nanna-Suen | 1 |
| Nannar | 1 |
| Ningal | 1 |
| Sin (moon god) | 1 |
| Suen (Nanna) | 1 |
| Suen (Nanna), the moon god | 1 |
| Sumerian god Nanna | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1900880 — 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: Nanna Context triple: [Sumer, pantheonIncludes, Nanna]
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A.
Inanna
Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, beauty, sex, war, and political power, later known as Ishtar.
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B.
Astarte
Astarte is an ancient Near Eastern goddess associated primarily with fertility, sexuality, and war, venerated across Canaanite, Phoenician, and later Mediterranean cultures.
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C.
Rhea
Rhea is the second-largest moon of Saturn, an icy, heavily cratered satellite discovered in 1672 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
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D.
Rhea
Rhea is a Titaness in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of several Olympian gods, including Zeus, whom she saved from being devoured by his father Cronus.
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E.
Asherah
Asherah is an ancient West Semitic mother goddess associated with fertility, the sea, and sacred trees, venerated across Canaan and neighboring cultures.
- 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: Nanna Target entity description: Nanna is the Sumerian moon god, a major deity associated with wisdom, fertility, and the measurement of time.
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A.
Inanna
Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, beauty, sex, war, and political power, later known as Ishtar.
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B.
Astarte
Astarte is an ancient Near Eastern goddess associated primarily with fertility, sexuality, and war, venerated across Canaanite, Phoenician, and later Mediterranean cultures.
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C.
Rhea
Rhea is the second-largest moon of Saturn, an icy, heavily cratered satellite discovered in 1672 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
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D.
Rhea
Rhea is a Titaness in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of several Olympian gods, including Zeus, whom she saved from being devoured by his father Cronus.
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E.
Asherah
Asherah is an ancient West Semitic mother goddess associated with fertility, the sea, and sacred trees, venerated across Canaan and neighboring cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sumerian deity
ⓘ
moon god ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
calendrical regulation
ⓘ
cattle ⓘ divination ⓘ fertility ⓘ measurement of time ⓘ night ⓘ omens ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
| child |
Inanna
ⓘ
Ishkur ⓘ Ishtar ⓘ
linked to:
Inanna
Shamash ⓘ Utu ⓘ |
| cultCenterPeriod |
Third Dynasty of Ur
ⓘ
linked to:
Third Dynasty of Ur period
|
| culture |
Mesopotamian religion
ⓘ
Sumerian religion ⓘ |
| domain | Moon ⓘ |
| epithet |
He whose heart is great
ⓘ
Lord of the crescent ⓘ |
| equivalent | Sin ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sumerian ⓘ |
| mythologicalCycle | Enlil and Ninlil ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Nannar
ⓘ
linked to:
Nanna
Suen ⓘ |
| parent |
Enlil
ⓘ
Ninlil ⓘ |
| regionOfWorship |
Akkad
ⓘ
Assyria ⓘ Babylonia ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamia
Sumer ⓘ |
| role |
patron of diviners
ⓘ
patron of herdsmen ⓘ regulator of months ⓘ regulator of seasons ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ningal
ⓘ
linked to:
Ninhursag
|
| symbol |
bull
ⓘ
crescent moon ⓘ |
| temple | E-kishnugal ⓘ |
| templeLocation | Ur ⓘ |
| title |
Lord of Ur
ⓘ
Lord of Wisdom ⓘ |
| worshipCenter |
Harran
ⓘ
Ur ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod |
1st millennium BCE
ⓘ
2nd millennium BCE ⓘ 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ |
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: Nanna Description of subject: Nanna is the Sumerian moon god, a major deity associated with wisdom, fertility, and the measurement of time.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
World Heritage Site (Ur)