Ammit
E290571
Ammit is a fearsome ancient Egyptian demoness with the head of a crocodile, forequarters of a lion, and hindquarters of a hippopotamus, who devoured the hearts of the unworthy in the afterlife.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ammit canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2697402 — 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: Ammit Context triple: [Duat, associatedDeity, Ammit]
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A.
Ereshkigal
Ereshkigal is the Mesopotamian goddess who rules the underworld and presides over the realm of the dead.
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B.
Sekhmet
Sekhmet is an ancient Egyptian lioness-headed goddess associated with war, destruction, and healing, revered as a powerful protector and bringer of both plague and cure.
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C.
Shapash
Shapash is the Phoenician sun goddess, often depicted as a powerful celestial deity associated with light, justice, and guidance among the gods and humans.
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D.
Tiamat
Tiamat is a primordial chaos dragon-goddess from Mesopotamian mythology, embodying the wild, untamed sea and serving as a central antagonist in the Babylonian creation epic, the Enuma Elish.
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E.
Nergal
Nergal is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated primarily with war, plague, and the underworld.
- 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: Ammit Target entity description: Ammit is a fearsome ancient Egyptian demoness with the head of a crocodile, forequarters of a lion, and hindquarters of a hippopotamus, who devoured the hearts of the unworthy in the afterlife.
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A.
Ereshkigal
Ereshkigal is the Mesopotamian goddess who rules the underworld and presides over the realm of the dead.
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B.
Sekhmet
Sekhmet is an ancient Egyptian lioness-headed goddess associated with war, destruction, and healing, revered as a powerful protector and bringer of both plague and cure.
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C.
Shapash
Shapash is the Phoenician sun goddess, often depicted as a powerful celestial deity associated with light, justice, and guidance among the gods and humans.
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D.
Tiamat
Tiamat is a primordial chaos dragon-goddess from Mesopotamian mythology, embodying the wild, untamed sea and serving as a central antagonist in the Babylonian creation epic, the Enuma Elish.
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E.
Nergal
Nergal is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated primarily with war, plague, and the underworld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Egyptian deity
ⓘ
demoness ⓘ mythological creature ⓘ |
| alignment | servant of the divine order ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Book of the Dead
ⓘ
ancient Egyptian funerary texts ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
afterlife
ⓘ
judgment of the dead ⓘ moral retribution ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Anubis
ⓘ
Osiris ⓘ Thoth ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Duat
ⓘ
Hall of Two Truths ⓘ |
| bodyPartAssociation |
crocodile head
ⓘ
hippopotamus hindquarters ⓘ lion forequarters ⓘ |
| consequenceOfEncounter |
denial of afterlife bliss
ⓘ
destruction of the soul ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Egyptian mythology ⓘ |
| depictedAs | composite beast seated near the scales of judgment ⓘ |
| diet | hearts of the unworthy dead ⓘ |
| domain | underworld ⓘ |
| epithet |
Devourer of Hearts
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Devourer of the Dead ⓘ Devourer of Hearts ⓘ
surface form:
Eater of Hearts
Devourer of the Dead ⓘ
surface form:
Great of Death
|
| function | to destroy the souls of those who fail the Weighing of the Heart ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasForequartersOf | lion ⓘ |
| hasHeadOf | crocodile ⓘ |
| hasHindquartersOf | hippopotamus ⓘ |
| judgmentContext | weighing of the heart against the feather of Ma’at ⓘ |
| languageOfName | ancient Egyptian ⓘ |
| moralRole | enforcer of divine justice ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Devourer ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Amemet
ⓘ
Ammut ⓘ |
| notWorshippedAs | goddess ⓘ |
| opposedToConcept |
Ma'at
ⓘ
surface form:
Ma’at
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| participatesIn |
Weighing of the Heart scene
ⓘ
surface form:
Weighing of the Heart
|
| relatedConcept | psychostasia ⓘ |
| religiousStatus | personification of punishment ⓘ |
| role | devourer of the hearts of the unworthy ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
annihilation of the wicked
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divine punishment ⓘ fear of moral failure ⓘ |
| typeOfBeing | chimeric monster ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ammit Description of subject: Ammit is a fearsome ancient Egyptian demoness with the head of a crocodile, forequarters of a lion, and hindquarters of a hippopotamus, who devoured the hearts of the unworthy in the afterlife.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.