Smoking Mirror
E472726
Smoking Mirror is an epithet of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca, a powerful and complex deity associated with night, sorcery, conflict, and destiny.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Smoking Mirror canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4835434 — 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: Smoking Mirror Context triple: [Tezcatlipoca, epithet, Smoking Mirror]
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A.
Smoke & Mirrors
Smoke & Mirrors is a 2010 rock album by the American band Lifehouse, known for its melodic hooks and radio-friendly alternative rock sound.
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B.
Smoke and Mirrors
"Smoke and Mirrors" is a collection of dark fantasy and speculative short stories by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, horror, and contemporary life.
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C.
The Smoke
The Smoke is the English name of Surah Ad-Dukhan, a chapter of the Qur’an that warns of a coming smoke as a sign of divine punishment and emphasizes God’s power and mercy.
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D.
The Smoke
The Smoke is a dramatic work by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood, known for her sharp, socially engaged storytelling.
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E.
The Smoke
The Smoke is a British television drama series centered on the lives and challenges of London firefighters.
- 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: Smoking Mirror Target entity description: Smoking Mirror is an epithet of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca, a powerful and complex deity associated with night, sorcery, conflict, and destiny.
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A.
Smoke & Mirrors
Smoke & Mirrors is a 2010 rock album by the American band Lifehouse, known for its melodic hooks and radio-friendly alternative rock sound.
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B.
Smoke and Mirrors
"Smoke and Mirrors" is a collection of dark fantasy and speculative short stories by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, horror, and contemporary life.
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C.
The Smoke
The Smoke is the English name of Surah Ad-Dukhan, a chapter of the Qur’an that warns of a coming smoke as a sign of divine punishment and emphasizes God’s power and mercy.
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D.
The Smoke
The Smoke is a dramatic work by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood, known for her sharp, socially engaged storytelling.
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E.
The Smoke
The Smoke is a British television drama series centered on the lives and challenges of London firefighters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epithet
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religious epithet ⓘ |
| appliesToDeity | Tezcatlipoca ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
conflict
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destiny ⓘ divination ⓘ night ⓘ obsidian ⓘ sorcery ⓘ |
| culture |
Aztec
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linked to:
Aztec culture
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| epithetOf |
Aztec god of night and sorcery
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creator deity ⓘ trickster deity ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
ambiguous
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complex ⓘ powerful ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Nahuatl ⓘ |
| meaning | smoking mirror ⓘ |
| refersTo | Tezcatlipoca ⓘ |
| region | Central Mexico ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
divinatory mirror
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obsidian mirror ⓘ |
| religion | Aztec religion ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
fate
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illusion ⓘ magical vision ⓘ mystery ⓘ power of darkness ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Postclassic Mesoamerica
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linked to:
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica
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| usedIn |
Aztec mythology
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Mesoamerican mythology ⓘ |
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: Smoking Mirror Description of subject: Smoking Mirror is an epithet of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca, a powerful and complex deity associated with night, sorcery, conflict, and destiny.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.