Ugaritic texts
E793013
Ugaritic texts are a corpus of Late Bronze Age writings from the ancient city of Ugarit that illuminate Northwest Semitic language, religion, and mythology.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ugaritic texts canonical | 8 |
| Ugaritic literature | 1 |
| Ugaritic mythological corpus | 1 |
| Ugaritic pantheon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9345917 — 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: Ugaritic texts Context triple: [Resheph, mentionedIn, Ugaritic texts]
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A.
Ugaritic Baal Cycle
The Ugaritic Baal Cycle is a Late Bronze Age Northwest Semitic mythological epic from Ugarit that recounts the storm-god Baal’s battles, kingship, and relationships with other deities, including the warrior goddess Anat.
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B.
Akkadian literature
Akkadian literature is the body of written works in the Akkadian language, including myths, epics, prayers, and legal texts from ancient Mesopotamia, best known for masterpieces like the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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C.
Hittite archives
The Hittite archives are collections of clay tablets preserving administrative, legal, religious, and diplomatic texts from the Hittite Empire, written in cuneiform and other contemporary scripts.
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D.
Bulletin of Kadesh
The Bulletin of Kadesh is an ancient Egyptian inscription that narrates Ramesses II’s account of the Battle of Kadesh, serving as a key propagandistic and historical record of the conflict.
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E.
Kültepe tablet corpus
The Kültepe tablet corpus is a large collection of Old Assyrian cuneiform tablets from the ancient trading colony at Kültepe (ancient Kanesh) in central Anatolia, documenting commercial, legal, and social activities of Assyrian merchants in the early second millennium BCE.
- 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: Ugaritic texts Target entity description: Ugaritic texts are a corpus of Late Bronze Age writings from the ancient city of Ugarit that illuminate Northwest Semitic language, religion, and mythology.
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A.
Ugaritic Baal Cycle
The Ugaritic Baal Cycle is a Late Bronze Age Northwest Semitic mythological epic from Ugarit that recounts the storm-god Baal’s battles, kingship, and relationships with other deities, including the warrior goddess Anat.
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B.
Akkadian literature
Akkadian literature is the body of written works in the Akkadian language, including myths, epics, prayers, and legal texts from ancient Mesopotamia, best known for masterpieces like the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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C.
Hittite archives
The Hittite archives are collections of clay tablets preserving administrative, legal, religious, and diplomatic texts from the Hittite Empire, written in cuneiform and other contemporary scripts.
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D.
Bulletin of Kadesh
The Bulletin of Kadesh is an ancient Egyptian inscription that narrates Ramesses II’s account of the Battle of Kadesh, serving as a key propagandistic and historical record of the conflict.
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E.
Kültepe tablet corpus
The Kültepe tablet corpus is a large collection of Old Assyrian cuneiform tablets from the ancient trading colony at Kültepe (ancient Kanesh) in central Anatolia, documenting commercial, legal, and social activities of Assyrian merchants in the early second millennium BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Northwest Semitic literature
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ancient texts ⓘ archaeological discovery ⓘ corpus of writings ⓘ |
| associatedWithSite | Ugarit ⓘ |
| chronologicalPeriod | Late Bronze Age ⓘ |
| containsGenre |
administrative records
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epic poetry ⓘ legal documents ⓘ letters ⓘ lexical lists ⓘ liturgical texts ⓘ mythological texts ⓘ onomastica ⓘ ritual texts ⓘ |
| currentLocation |
British Museum
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Louvre Museum ⓘ National Museum of Damascus ⓘ |
| dating | circa 14th to 12th century BCE ⓘ |
| discoveredAt | Ras Shamra archaeological site ⓘ |
| discoveredInYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| featuresDeity |
Anat
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Asherah ⓘ Baal ⓘ El ⓘ Mot ⓘ Yam ⓘ |
| foundInStructure |
Royal Palace of Ugarit
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Temple of Baal ⓘ Temple of Dagan ⓘ private libraries ⓘ |
| importantMythCycle |
Aqhat Epic
ⓘ
linked to:
Aqhat epic
Baal Cycle ⓘ
linked to:
Ugaritic Baal Cycle
Keret Epic ⓘ
linked to:
Keret epic
|
| languageFamily | Northwest Semitic ⓘ |
| material | clay tablets ⓘ |
| modernCountry | Syria ⓘ |
| modernLocation |
Ras Shamra
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linked to:
Ugarit
|
| numberOfSigns | about 30 signs ⓘ |
| relatedToLanguage |
Akkadian
ⓘ
Aramaic ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Phoenician ⓘ
linked to:
Phoenician language
|
| religiousContent |
Canaanite religion
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Ugaritic pantheon ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | written from left to right ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphabetic cuneiform ⓘ |
| significance |
illuminate Canaanite religion
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illuminate Northwest Semitic language ⓘ illuminate ancient Near Eastern mythology ⓘ provide background to Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Ugaritic cuneiform script
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linked to:
Ugaritic alphabet
|
| writtenInLanguage | Ugaritic language ⓘ |
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: Ugaritic texts Description of subject: Ugaritic texts are a corpus of Late Bronze Age writings from the ancient city of Ugarit that illuminate Northwest Semitic language, religion, and mythology.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
El (in some traditions)
linked to: Ugaritic texts
linked to: Ugaritic texts
subject linked to:
Mot (as figure involved in his mythic cycle)
linked to: Ugaritic texts