Telepinu
E1037089
Telepinu is a Hittite god associated primarily with agriculture, fertility, and the seasonal cycle, whose disappearance and return are central to Hittite myth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Telepinu canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13327614 — 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: Telepinu Context triple: [Anatolian paganism, hasDeity, Telepinu]
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A.
Telepinu (ancestor)
Telepinu was an earlier Hittite king known for issuing a famous edict that regulated royal succession and sought to stabilize the Hittite kingdom.
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B.
Tarḫunna
Tarḫunna is the chief storm god of the Hittite pantheon, associated with thunder, rain, and kingship.
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C.
Atra-hasis
Atra-hasis is a legendary wise man and flood hero from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, best known from the Akkadian Atra-Hasis Epic that recounts a great deluge sent by the gods.
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D.
Ningishzida
Ningishzida is a Mesopotamian god associated with the underworld, vegetation, and serpents, often depicted as a guardian deity and linked to rebirth and fertility.
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E.
Kubaba
Kubaba is an ancient mother-goddess figure revered in Anatolia and northern Syria, later associated with the Phrygian and Greek Cybele.
- 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: Telepinu Target entity description: Telepinu is a Hittite god associated primarily with agriculture, fertility, and the seasonal cycle, whose disappearance and return are central to Hittite myth.
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A.
Telepinu (ancestor)
Telepinu was an earlier Hittite king known for issuing a famous edict that regulated royal succession and sought to stabilize the Hittite kingdom.
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B.
Tarḫunna
Tarḫunna is the chief storm god of the Hittite pantheon, associated with thunder, rain, and kingship.
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C.
Atra-hasis
Atra-hasis is a legendary wise man and flood hero from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, best known from the Akkadian Atra-Hasis Epic that recounts a great deluge sent by the gods.
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D.
Ningishzida
Ningishzida is a Mesopotamian god associated with the underworld, vegetation, and serpents, often depicted as a guardian deity and linked to rebirth and fertility.
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E.
Kubaba
Kubaba is an ancient mother-goddess figure revered in Anatolia and northern Syria, later associated with the Phrygian and Greek Cybele.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hittite god
ⓘ
deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture
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fertility ⓘ seasonal cycle ⓘ vegetation ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
prone to anger
ⓘ
withdraws from the world in rage ⓘ |
| consequenceOfDisappearance |
animals stop reproducing
ⓘ
crops fail ⓘ humans suffer famine ⓘ |
| culture | Hittite ⓘ |
| equatedWith |
Hurrian vegetation deities
ⓘ
linked to:
Hurrian religion
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAspect | chthonic fertility aspect ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
god of fertility
ⓘ
god of grain ⓘ |
| influencedConcept | later Anatolian fertility cults ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Hittite ⓘ |
| mythicAction |
leaves his fields and disappears
ⓘ
returns to restore growth ⓘ |
| mythicMotif |
disappearance of the god causes famine
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restoration of cosmic order ⓘ rituals to appease an angry deity ⓘ search for the missing god ⓘ |
| mythType | dying-and-returning god ⓘ |
| notableMyth | Myth of Telepinu’s Disappearance ⓘ |
| pantheon |
Hittite pantheon
ⓘ
linked to:
Hittite mythology
|
| parent |
Hannahanna
ⓘ
Tarhunt ⓘ
linked to:
Tarḫunna
|
| religion |
Hittite religion
ⓘ
linked to:
Hittite mythology
|
| religiousFunction |
ensuring agricultural abundance
ⓘ
maintaining cosmic order ⓘ |
| ritualAssociation |
Hittite fertility rituals
ⓘ
seasonal renewal rites ⓘ |
| roleInMythology |
deity whose return restores fertility and order
ⓘ
god whose disappearance causes cosmic disorder ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
crops
ⓘ
livestock ⓘ natural fertility ⓘ prosperity ⓘ |
| symbolicMeaning |
cyclical nature of seasons
ⓘ
dependence of life on divine favor ⓘ |
| textualSources | cuneiform tablets ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod | Bronze Age ⓘ |
| worshipRegion | Anatolia ⓘ |
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: Telepinu Description of subject: Telepinu is a Hittite god associated primarily with agriculture, fertility, and the seasonal cycle, whose disappearance and return are central to Hittite myth.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.