Feathered Serpent
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The Feathered Serpent is a prominent Mesoamerican deity, often depicted as a plumed snake and associated with wind, creation, and rulership across various pre-Columbian cultures.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Feathered Serpent canonical | 4 |
| Feathered Serpent (Quetzalcoatl) | 1 |
| Feathered Serpent deity | 1 |
| featheredSerpentGlyph | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7103799 — 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: Feathered Serpent Context triple: [Gukumatz, identifiedWith, Feathered Serpent]
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A.
Xiuhcoatl
Xiuhcoatl is a mythological Aztec fire serpent often depicted as a powerful, divine weapon associated with the sun and war.
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B.
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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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.
Centeotl
Centeotl is the Aztec god of maize and agricultural fertility, central to rituals ensuring sustenance and abundance.
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E.
Tlaltecuhtli
Tlaltecuhtli is a primordial earth deity in Aztec mythology, often depicted as a monstrous earth monster whose dismembered body formed the world.
- 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: Feathered Serpent Target entity description: The Feathered Serpent is a prominent Mesoamerican deity, often depicted as a plumed snake and associated with wind, creation, and rulership across various pre-Columbian cultures.
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A.
Xiuhcoatl
Xiuhcoatl is a mythological Aztec fire serpent often depicted as a powerful, divine weapon associated with the sun and war.
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B.
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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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.
Centeotl
Centeotl is the Aztec god of maize and agricultural fertility, central to rituals ensuring sustenance and abundance.
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E.
Tlaltecuhtli
Tlaltecuhtli is a primordial earth deity in Aztec mythology, often depicted as a monstrous earth monster whose dismembered body formed the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican deity
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mythological figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
civilization
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creation ⓘ fertility ⓘ knowledge ⓘ learning ⓘ priests ⓘ rulership ⓘ wind ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
agriculture
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calendar knowledge ⓘ cosmic order ⓘ evening star ⓘ legitimacy of kingship ⓘ morning star ⓘ |
| culture |
Aztec civilization
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linked to:
Aztec culture
Maya civilization ⓘ Mixtec civilization ⓘ Teotihuacan civilization ⓘ Toltec civilization ⓘ Zapotec civilization ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
feathered snake
ⓘ
plumed serpent ⓘ |
| element |
air
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wind ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ehécatl-Quetzalcoatl
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linked to:
Quetzalcoatl
Gukumatz ⓘ Kukulkan ⓘ Quetzalcoatl ⓘ Qʼuqʼumatz ⓘ |
| influenced |
Mesoamerican political ideology
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Mesoamerican religious iconography ⓘ |
| linkedToPlanet | Venus ⓘ |
| role |
creator god
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culture hero ⓘ patron of priests ⓘ patron of rulers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfWorship |
Classic Mesoamerica
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linked to:
Classic period in Mesoamerica
Postclassic Mesoamerica ⓘ
linked to:
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica
Preclassic Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| worshipedAtSite |
Chichen Itza El Castillo pyramid
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linked to:
Temple of Kukulkan
various Maya city-states ⓘ |
| worshipedAtSite |
Tenochtitlan temples
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linked to:
Templo Mayor
Teotihuacan Temple of the Feathered Serpent ⓘ |
| worshipedInRegion |
Central Mexico
ⓘ
Guatemala ⓘ Mesoamerica ⓘ Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
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: Feathered Serpent Description of subject: The Feathered Serpent is a prominent Mesoamerican deity, often depicted as a plumed snake and associated with wind, creation, and rulership across various pre-Columbian cultures.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Feathered Serpent
linked to: Feathered Serpent