Irkalla
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Irkalla is the Mesopotamian underworld, a gloomy realm of the dead ruled by the goddess Ereshkigal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irkalla canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8895602 — 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: Irkalla Context triple: [Ereshkigal, residence, Irkalla]
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A.
Ziria
Ziria is a mountain in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, traditionally identified with Mount Cyllene, which is famed in Greek mythology as the birthplace of the god Hermes.
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B.
Ishbia
Ishbia is the surname of Mat Ishbia, an American billionaire businessman and owner of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns.
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C.
Novilara
Novilara is an archaeological site and locality in the Marche region of Italy, known for its ancient Picene culture remains and notable funerary stelae.
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D.
Tayshet
Tayshet is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, known as a major railway junction in Siberia.
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E.
Arykanda
Arykanda is an ancient Lycian city in southwestern Turkey, known for its well-preserved ruins including a theater, baths, and terraced structures overlooking a mountain valley.
- 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: Irkalla Target entity description: Irkalla is the Mesopotamian underworld, a gloomy realm of the dead ruled by the goddess Ereshkigal.
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A.
Ziria
Ziria is a mountain in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, traditionally identified with Mount Cyllene, which is famed in Greek mythology as the birthplace of the god Hermes.
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B.
Ishbia
Ishbia is the surname of Mat Ishbia, an American billionaire businessman and owner of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns.
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C.
Novilara
Novilara is an archaeological site and locality in the Marche region of Italy, known for its ancient Picene culture remains and notable funerary stelae.
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D.
Tayshet
Tayshet is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, known as a major railway junction in Siberia.
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E.
Arykanda
Arykanda is an ancient Lycian city in southwestern Turkey, known for its well-preserved ruins including a theater, baths, and terraced structures overlooking a mountain valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mythological location
ⓘ
realm of the dead ⓘ |
| accessedBy | seven gates ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
fate of the dead
ⓘ
judgment of the dead ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Ereshkigal
ⓘ
Nergal ⓘ |
| associatedWithRitual |
ancestor cult
ⓘ
funerary offerings ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
heaven
ⓘ
realm of the gods above ⓘ |
| cosmologicalRole | subterranean realm beneath the world of the living ⓘ |
| culture |
Akkadian mythology
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamian religion
Mesopotamian mythology ⓘ Sumerian mythology ⓘ
linked to:
Sumerian religion
|
| describedAs |
gloomy realm
ⓘ
land of no return ⓘ |
| equivalentConcept |
netherworld
ⓘ
underworld ⓘ |
| governedByLaw | laws of Ereshkigal ⓘ |
| guardedBy |
demons
ⓘ
gods of the gates ⓘ |
| hasAfterlifeCondition |
lack of light
ⓘ
scarcity of food and water ⓘ shadowy existence ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Erṣetu
ⓘ
Kurnugi ⓘ |
| hasEntrance | gates of the underworld ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
darkness
ⓘ
dust ⓘ no return for the dead ⓘ silence ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalRole |
destination of most human souls after death
ⓘ
setting for descent myths ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfGates | seven ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy |
dead souls
ⓘ
ghosts ⓘ |
| languageAttestedIn |
Akkadian
ⓘ
Sumerian ⓘ
linked to:
Sumerian language
|
| locatedBelow | earth ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Descent of Inanna
ⓘ
linked to:
Inanna's Descent to the Underworld
Descent of Ishtar ⓘ
linked to:
Inanna's Descent to the Underworld
Epic of Gilgamesh ⓘ |
| ruledBy | Ereshkigal ⓘ |
| ruledFrom |
palace of Ereshkigal
ⓘ
linked to:
Ereshkigal's palace
|
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: Irkalla Description of subject: Irkalla is the Mesopotamian underworld, a gloomy realm of the dead ruled by the goddess Ereshkigal.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.