Meslamtaea
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Meslamtaea is a Mesopotamian deity closely associated with the underworld god Nergal, often regarded as a manifestation or aspect of him in ancient religion.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meslam (Nergal’s sanctuary) | 1 |
| Meslamtaea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8350679 — 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: Meslamtaea Context triple: [Nergal, equatedWith, Meslamtaea]
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A.
Tahawus
Tahawus is a remote hamlet in New York’s Adirondack Mountains known for its historic iron mining operations and proximity to High Peaks wilderness areas.
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B.
Kashta
Kashta was a Kushite king of Nubia in the 8th century BCE who began the expansion into Egypt that his successors, including Shabaka, would complete.
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C.
Gamila
Gamila is the highest peak of Mount Tymfi in the Pindus mountain range of northwestern Greece.
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D.
Melide
Melide is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Ticino, known for its scenic location on Lake Lugano and the Swissminiatur open-air miniature park.
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E.
She'eb
She'eb is a town in Eritrea located within the Northern Red Sea administrative region.
- 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: Meslamtaea Target entity description: Meslamtaea is a Mesopotamian deity closely associated with the underworld god Nergal, often regarded as a manifestation or aspect of him in ancient religion.
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A.
Tahawus
Tahawus is a remote hamlet in New York’s Adirondack Mountains known for its historic iron mining operations and proximity to High Peaks wilderness areas.
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B.
Kashta
Kashta was a Kushite king of Nubia in the 8th century BCE who began the expansion into Egypt that his successors, including Shabaka, would complete.
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C.
Gamila
Gamila is the highest peak of Mount Tymfi in the Pindus mountain range of northwestern Greece.
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D.
Melide
Melide is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Ticino, known for its scenic location on Lake Lugano and the Swissminiatur open-air miniature park.
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E.
She'eb
She'eb is a town in Eritrea located within the Northern Red Sea administrative region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesopotamian deity
ⓘ
underworld deity ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Akkadian texts
ⓘ
Sumerian texts ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Nergal
ⓘ
death ⓘ plague ⓘ war ⓘ |
| consideredAspectOf | Nergal ⓘ |
| culture | Mesopotamian religion ⓘ |
| domain | underworld ⓘ |
| epithetOf | Nergal ⓘ |
| equatedWith | Nergal ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasTemple | Meslam ⓘ |
| majorCultCenter | Kutha ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
god lists
ⓘ
incantations ⓘ ritual texts ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Sumerian ⓘ |
| nameMeaningApproximate | He who comes forth from Meslam ⓘ |
| role |
chthonic god
ⓘ
warrior deity ⓘ |
| sharesCultWith | Nergal ⓘ |
| sometimesDistinguishedFrom | Nergal ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
Akkad
ⓘ
Assyria ⓘ Babylonia ⓘ
linked to:
Babylon
Sumer ⓘ ancient Mesopotamia ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamia
|
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: Meslamtaea Description of subject: Meslamtaea is a Mesopotamian deity closely associated with the underworld god Nergal, often regarded as a manifestation or aspect of him in ancient religion.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meslamtaea