Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw
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Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw was an 11th-century Mixtec ruler and military leader renowned from Mesoamerican codices for his conquests, political alliances, and central role in Mixtec history and mythology.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw canonical | 4 |
| Eight Deer Jaguar Claw | 2 |
| Lord 8 Deer Jaguar Claw | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7107017 — 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: Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw Context triple: [Codex Nuttall, depicts, Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw]
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A.
Mixcoatl
Mixcoatl is an important Mesoamerican hunting and war deity, often associated with the Milky Way, storms, and the patronage of hunters and warriors.
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B.
Toxcatl
Toxcatl was a major Aztec religious festival held in honor of the god Tezcatlipoca, marked by elaborate rituals, music, and sacrificial ceremonies.
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C.
Itzpapalotl
Itzpapalotl is a fearsome skeletal warrior goddess in Aztec mythology, often depicted with obsidian butterfly wings and associated with night, sacrifice, and the star demons (Tzitzimimeh).
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D.
Kykotsmovi
Kykotsmovi is a Hopi village and census-designated place located on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona.
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E.
Xochicueyetl
Xochicueyetl was a noblewoman of the Aztec elite best known as the mother of the emperor Moctezuma II.
- 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: Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw Target entity description: Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw was an 11th-century Mixtec ruler and military leader renowned from Mesoamerican codices for his conquests, political alliances, and central role in Mixtec history and mythology.
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A.
Cihuacoatl
Cihuacoatl is an Aztec goddess associated with motherhood, fertility, and warfare, often depicted as a fearsome serpent or skull-faced woman linked to childbirth and the underworld.
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B.
Mixcoatl
Mixcoatl is an important Mesoamerican hunting and war deity, often associated with the Milky Way, storms, and the patronage of hunters and warriors.
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C.
Toxcatl
Toxcatl was a major Aztec religious festival held in honor of the god Tezcatlipoca, marked by elaborate rituals, music, and sacrificial ceremonies.
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D.
Itzpapalotl
Itzpapalotl is a fearsome skeletal warrior goddess in Aztec mythology, often depicted with obsidian butterfly wings and associated with night, sacrifice, and the star demons (Tzitzimimeh).
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E.
Kykotsmovi
Kykotsmovi is a Hopi village and census-designated place located on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican historical figure
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Mixtec ruler ⓘ military leader ⓘ pre-Columbian person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mesoamerican warfare
ⓘ
Mixtec city-states ⓘ
linked to:
Mixtec civilization
dynastic genealogies ⓘ |
| calendarName | Eight Deer ⓘ |
| culture | Mixtec civilization ⓘ |
| death | killed in conflict according to codices ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | known primarily from indigenous pictorial sources ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Mixtec ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
diplomacy
ⓘ
statecraft ⓘ warfare ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governmentForm | city-state rulership ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Late Postclassic formative Mixtec tradition ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | semi-legendary ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Codex Bodley
ⓘ
Codex Colombino ⓘ Codex Zouche-Nuttall ⓘ
linked to:
Codex Nuttall
Mesoamerican codices ⓘ |
| languageContext | Mixtec languages ⓘ |
| legacy |
central figure in Mixtec historical tradition
ⓘ
important subject of Mesoamerican scholarship ⓘ |
| nameElement | Jaguar Claw ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dynastic expansion
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military conquests ⓘ political alliances ⓘ unification of Mixtec polities ⓘ |
| occupation |
ruler
ⓘ
warrior ⓘ |
| politicalActivity |
forging alliances through marriage
ⓘ
subjugation of neighboring city-states ⓘ |
| pre-ColumbianCivilization | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| region |
Mixteca Alta
ⓘ
Oaxaca ⓘ
linked to:
Oaxaca state
|
| religiousContext | Mesoamerican religion ⓘ |
| roleInMythology |
ancestral founder figure
ⓘ
culture hero ⓘ |
| sourceType | pictographic manuscripts ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 11th century ⓘ |
| typeOfLeadership | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| usesMesoamericanCalendar | 260-day ritual calendar ⓘ |
| visualDepiction | represented with deer and jaguar glyphs in codices ⓘ |
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: Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw Description of subject: Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw was an 11th-century Mixtec ruler and military leader renowned from Mesoamerican codices for his conquests, political alliances, and central role in Mixtec history and mythology.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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