The Ossuary
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The Ossuary is a stepped pyramid at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, notable for its elaborate carvings and association with ritual burials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ossuary canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7483414 — 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: The Ossuary Context triple: [Osario pyramid, alsoKnownAs, The Ossuary]
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A.
Sepulcher of the First Ones
Sepulcher of the First Ones is a high-level World of Warcraft: Shadowlands raid instance set in the mysterious realm of the First Ones, featuring encounters with the Jailer and his forces as the expansion’s final major raid.
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B.
The Tomb
"The Tomb" is a horror-thriller novel by F. Paul Wilson that introduces Repairman Jack, a vigilante fixer who confronts supernatural forces in contemporary New York City.
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C.
The Grave
"The Grave" is a 1961 episode of the anthology television series The Twilight Zone, featuring a tense Western ghost story about a lawman who must confront the vengeful spirit of an outlaw he failed to capture alive.
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D.
The Grave
The Grave is a long meditative poem by Scottish poet Robert Blair, often cited as a key work of the 18th-century Graveyard school for its somber reflections on death and mortality.
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E.
The Cemetery
"The Cemetery" is a musical cue from Jerry Goldsmith's acclaimed score for the 1970 war film "Patton," underscoring the movie's somber and reflective moments.
- 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: The Ossuary Target entity description: The Ossuary is a stepped pyramid at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, notable for its elaborate carvings and association with ritual burials.
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A.
Sepulcher of the First Ones
Sepulcher of the First Ones is a high-level World of Warcraft: Shadowlands raid instance set in the mysterious realm of the First Ones, featuring encounters with the Jailer and his forces as the expansion’s final major raid.
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B.
The Tomb
"The Tomb" is a horror-thriller novel by F. Paul Wilson that introduces Repairman Jack, a vigilante fixer who confronts supernatural forces in contemporary New York City.
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C.
The Grave
"The Grave" is a 1961 episode of the anthology television series The Twilight Zone, featuring a tense Western ghost story about a lawman who must confront the vengeful spirit of an outlaw he failed to capture alive.
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D.
The Grave
The Grave is a long meditative poem by Scottish poet Robert Blair, often cited as a key work of the 18th-century Graveyard school for its somber reflections on death and mortality.
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E.
The Cemetery
"The Cemetery" is a musical cue from Jerry Goldsmith's acclaimed score for the 1970 war film "Patton," underscoring the movie's somber and reflective moments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maya pyramid
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archaeological structure ⓘ ritual building ⓘ |
| access | tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Maya architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith | ritual burials ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeities | Maya underworld deities ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Maya cultural heritage ⓘ |
| builtBy | Maya peoples ⓘ |
| civilization | Maya ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| countryAdminBody | Government of Mexico ⓘ |
| culture | Maya civilization ⓘ |
| era | pre-Columbian era ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalEvidence |
human burials
ⓘ
ritual deposits ⓘ |
| hasArtStyle | Maya relief carving ⓘ |
| hasConservationStatus | preserved archaeological monument ⓘ |
| hasContext | Maya mortuary practices ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elaborate carvings
ⓘ
multiple tiers ⓘ stone stairways ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
burial site
ⓘ
ritual use ⓘ |
| hasShape | stepped pyramid ⓘ |
| hasType | pre-Columbian monument ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of UNESCO World Heritage Site Chichen Itza ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Chichen Itza archaeological zone ⓘ |
| locatedAtSiteType | archaeological site ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chichen Itza
ⓘ
linked to:
Chichén Itzá
Mesoamerica ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ Yucatán state ⓘ |
| managedBy | Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| nearbyStructure |
El Castillo (Temple of Kukulcán)
ⓘ
linked to:
Temple of Kukulkan
Great Ball Court of Chichen Itza ⓘ
linked to:
Great Ballcourt at Chichen Itza
|
| partOf | ceremonial center of Chichen Itza ⓘ |
| region |
Northern Maya Lowlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Maya lowlands
|
| religion | Maya religion ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Late Classic to Postclassic transition
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Postclassic Maya period ⓘ |
| tourism | open to visitors ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince | 1988 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
funerary rituals
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religious ceremonies ⓘ |
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: The Ossuary Description of subject: The Ossuary is a stepped pyramid at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, notable for its elaborate carvings and association with ritual burials.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.