Illapa
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Illapa is the Andean god of thunder, lightning, and rain, revered as a powerful weather deity crucial for agriculture in Inca religion.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illapa canonical | 3 |
| Tunupa (Andean deity) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5166026 — 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: Illapa Context triple: [Andean mythology, hasDeity, Illapa]
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A.
Pachamama
Pachamama is the Andean earth and fertility goddess revered as a mother figure who sustains life and nature.
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B.
Pachacámac
Pachacámac is a district in the Lima Province of Peru, known for its important pre-Columbian archaeological site and temples dedicated to the deity Pachacámac.
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C.
Camahueto
Camahueto is a legendary one-horned water bull from Chilote mythology, known for its immense strength, destructive power, and association with rivers and the sea in Chilean folklore.
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D.
Viracocha
Viracocha is the great creator god in Inca mythology, credited with forming the world, humanity, and other deities.
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E.
Mama Cocha
Mama Cocha is a sea and water goddess in Inca mythology, revered as a protective mother figure of the oceans and sailors.
- 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: Illapa Target entity description: Illapa is the Andean god of thunder, lightning, and rain, revered as a powerful weather deity crucial for agriculture in Inca religion.
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A.
Pachamama
Pachamama is the Andean earth and fertility goddess revered as a mother figure who sustains life and nature.
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B.
Pachacámac
Pachacámac is a district in the Lima Province of Peru, known for its important pre-Columbian archaeological site and temples dedicated to the deity Pachacámac.
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C.
Camahueto
Camahueto is a legendary one-horned water bull from Chilote mythology, known for its immense strength, destructive power, and association with rivers and the sea in Chilean folklore.
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D.
Viracocha
Viracocha is the great creator god in Inca mythology, credited with forming the world, humanity, and other deities.
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E.
Mama Cocha
Mama Cocha is a sea and water goddess in Inca mythology, revered as a protective mother figure of the oceans and sailors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Inca deity
ⓘ
deity ⓘ weather god ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
fertility of fields
ⓘ
storms ⓘ water ⓘ |
| cosmicFunction |
control of lightning
ⓘ
control of rainfall ⓘ control of thunder ⓘ |
| culture |
Andean
ⓘ
linked to:
Andean mythology
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| domain |
lightning
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rain ⓘ thunder ⓘ |
| importance | crucial for agriculture ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition |
Andean mythology
ⓘ
Inca mythology ⓘ |
| religion |
Inca religion
ⓘ
linked to:
IncaPantheon
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| role |
agricultural protector
ⓘ
weather deity ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
agriculture
ⓘ
weather ⓘ |
| status | major Inca god ⓘ |
| veneratedAs | powerful weather deity ⓘ |
| worshipedBy |
Andean peoples
ⓘ
Inca ⓘ
linked to:
Inca people
|
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: Illapa Description of subject: Illapa is the Andean god of thunder, lightning, and rain, revered as a powerful weather deity crucial for agriculture in Inca religion.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Illapa