Ninurta
E237320
Ninurta is a Mesopotamian god associated with war, hunting, and agriculture, often depicted as a heroic warrior and champion of the god Enlil.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ninurta canonical | 50 |
| Ningirsu | 34 |
| Ninĝirsu | 2 |
| Ninurta (as “the one who hears prayer”) | 1 |
| Ninurta (in the mythic episode) | 1 |
| god Ningirsu | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2102094 — 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: Ninurta Context triple: [Enlil, child, Ninurta]
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A.
Enmerkar
Enmerkar is a legendary Sumerian king of Uruk, best known from ancient Mesopotamian epics that depict his rivalries, quests, and early developments in writing and civilization.
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B.
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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C.
Enlil
Enlil is a chief god in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with wind, air, and authority over the cosmos.
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D.
Nabu
Nabu is the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and writing, revered as the divine scribe and patron of scribes.
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E.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
- 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: Ninurta Target entity description: Ninurta is a Mesopotamian god associated with war, hunting, and agriculture, often depicted as a heroic warrior and champion of the god Enlil.
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A.
Enmerkar
Enmerkar is a legendary Sumerian king of Uruk, best known from ancient Mesopotamian epics that depict his rivalries, quests, and early developments in writing and civilization.
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B.
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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C.
Enlil
Enlil is a chief god in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with wind, air, and authority over the cosmos.
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D.
Nabu
Nabu is the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and writing, revered as the divine scribe and patron of scribes.
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E.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesopotamian god
ⓘ
deity ⓘ |
| animalAssociation |
eagle
ⓘ
lion ⓘ lion-headed eagle ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture
ⓘ
boundaries and fields ⓘ divine justice ⓘ flood control ⓘ hunting ⓘ storms ⓘ war ⓘ |
| championOf | Enlil ⓘ |
| culture | Mesopotamian religion ⓘ |
| defeats |
Anzû
ⓘ
mountain demon Asag ⓘ |
| equatedWith |
Ningirsu
ⓘ
linked to:
Ninurta
Ninib ⓘ Ninurtu ⓘ Ninĝirsu ⓘ
linked to:
Ninurta
|
| familyRelation | son of Enlil and Ninlil ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| majorCultCenter |
Girsu
ⓘ
linked to:
city of Girsu
Kalhu ⓘ Nippur ⓘ |
| myth |
Angim (Ninurta’s Return to Nippur)
ⓘ
Lugal-e (Ninurta’s Exploits) ⓘ The Myth of Anzû ⓘ The Turtle (Ninurta and the Turtle) ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedAs |
archer
ⓘ
armed warrior ⓘ standing on a lion-dragon or lion-headed eagle ⓘ |
| parent |
Enlil
ⓘ
Ninlil ⓘ |
| role |
heroic champion
ⓘ
warrior god ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
farming
ⓘ
healing ⓘ hunting and trapping ⓘ irrigation ⓘ kingship ⓘ law and order ⓘ warfare ⓘ |
| symbol |
bow and arrows
ⓘ
lion-headed eagle ⓘ mace ⓘ plow ⓘ |
| temple |
E-meslam in Kutha
ⓘ
linked to:
E-Meslam in Kutha
E-shumesha in Nippur ⓘ |
| typeOfDeity |
agricultural god
ⓘ
hunting god ⓘ warrior god ⓘ |
| weapon | mace Sharur ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod |
Akkadian period
ⓘ
Assyrian period ⓘ Early Dynastic period ⓘ Old Babylonian period ⓘ
linked to:
Old Babylonian Empire
|
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: Ninurta Description of subject: Ninurta is a Mesopotamian god associated with war, hunting, and agriculture, often depicted as a heroic warrior and champion of the god Enlil.
Referenced by (89)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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temple of Ningirsu at Girsu
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temple of Ningirsu at Girsu
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temple of Ningirsu at Girsu
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temple of Ningirsu at Girsu
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temple of Ningirsu
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temple of Ningirsu
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subject linked to:
temple of Ningirsu
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