Itzamna
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Itzamna is a major Maya creator god associated with the sky, wisdom, writing, and rulership in ancient Mesoamerican religion.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T227270 — 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: Itzamna Context triple: [Mesoamerica, hasKeyDeity, Itzamna]
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A.
Kʼawiil
Kʼawiil is a prominent Maya deity associated with lightning, royal power, and dynastic legitimacy in Mesoamerican religion.
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B.
Muspilli
Muspilli is an Old High German eschatological poem that vividly depicts the Last Judgment and the end of the world.
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C.
Teos
Teos was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Asia Minor, known as the hometown of the lyric poet Anacreon.
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D.
Rarámuri
The Rarámuri, also known as the Tarahumara, are an Indigenous people of northern Mexico renowned for their exceptional long-distance running abilities and traditional way of life in the canyons and mountains of the Sierra Madre.
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E.
Batabanó
Batabanó is a coastal municipality in western Cuba known for its fishing industry and ferry connections to nearby islands.
- 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: Itzamna Target entity description: Itzamna is a major Maya creator god associated with the sky, wisdom, writing, and rulership in ancient Mesoamerican religion.
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A.
Kʼawiil
Kʼawiil is a prominent Maya deity associated with lightning, royal power, and dynastic legitimacy in Mesoamerican religion.
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B.
Muspilli
Muspilli is an Old High German eschatological poem that vividly depicts the Last Judgment and the end of the world.
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C.
Teos
Teos was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Asia Minor, known as the hometown of the lyric poet Anacreon.
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D.
Rarámuri
The Rarámuri, also known as the Tarahumara, are an Indigenous people of northern Mexico renowned for their exceptional long-distance running abilities and traditional way of life in the canyons and mountains of the Sierra Madre.
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E.
Batabanó
Batabanó is a coastal municipality in western Cuba known for its fishing industry and ferry connections to nearby islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maya deity
ⓘ
creator god ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
God D
ⓘ
Itzamná ⓘ
linked to:
Itzamna
|
| appearsIn |
Dresden Codex
ⓘ
linked to:
Maya codices
Madrid Codex ⓘ
linked to:
Maya codices
Maya codices ⓘ Paris Codex ⓘ
linked to:
Maya codices
|
| associatedWith |
divination
ⓘ
knowledge ⓘ medicine ⓘ priesthood ⓘ rulership ⓘ sky ⓘ wisdom ⓘ writing ⓘ |
| culture | Maya civilization ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
aged man
ⓘ
figure with large Roman nose ⓘ toothless old deity ⓘ |
| domain |
day
ⓘ
heavens ⓘ night ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
Akbal-like eye
ⓘ
headband with knotted ends ⓘ square eye ⓘ toothless jaws ⓘ |
| influenceOn | Maya kingship ideology ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Yucatec Maya
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| linkedTo |
creation myths
ⓘ
fire ⓘ sun ⓘ |
| mythologicalFunction |
inventor of the calendar
ⓘ
inventor of writing ⓘ teacher of arts and sciences to humans ⓘ |
| parentOf | Bacab deities ⓘ |
| religion | Maya religion ⓘ |
| role |
creator of the world
ⓘ
patron of calendrics ⓘ patron of learning ⓘ patron of science ⓘ patron of scribes ⓘ |
| spouse | Ix Chel ⓘ |
| typeOf | Mesoamerican deity ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
high god
ⓘ
lord of the sky ⓘ |
| worshipedIn |
Classic Maya period
ⓘ
linked to:
Classic period in Mesoamerica
Postclassic Maya period ⓘ
linked to:
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica
Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
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: Itzamna Description of subject: Itzamna is a major Maya creator god associated with the sky, wisdom, writing, and rulership in ancient Mesoamerican religion.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Itzamna
subject linked to:
Maya
linked to: Itzamna
subject linked to:
Maya goddess Ixchel (in some interpretations)