Ningishzida
E811011
Ningishzida is a Mesopotamian god associated with the underworld, vegetation, and serpents, often depicted as a guardian deity and linked to rebirth and fertility.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ningishzida canonical | 3 |
| Nanna-Sîn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8925990 — 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: Ningishzida Context triple: [Gudea, worshippedDeity, Ningishzida]
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A.
Ningishzida-adda
Ningishzida-adda was a child of the Neo-Sumerian ruler Gudea of Lagash, likely a member of the royal family known from Mesopotamian inscriptions.
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B.
Samsu-iluna
Samsu-iluna was a king of Babylon in the 18th century BCE, known for inheriting and struggling to maintain the vast empire established by his father Hammurabi.
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C.
Sin-leqi-unninni
Sin-leqi-unninni was a Babylonian scholar and scribe traditionally credited with compiling and editing the standard Akkadian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in the late second millennium BCE.
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D.
Gugalanna
Gugalanna is a Sumerian deity known as the Bull of Heaven, associated with the sky and sent by the gods as a destructive force in Mesopotamian mythology.
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E.
Inshushinak
Inshushinak is an ancient Elamite god associated with the city of Susa, often revered as a chief deity linked to justice, the underworld, and the protection of the state.
- 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: Ningishzida Target entity description: Ningishzida is a Mesopotamian god associated with the underworld, vegetation, and serpents, often depicted as a guardian deity and linked to rebirth and fertility.
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A.
Ningishzida-adda
Ningishzida-adda was a child of the Neo-Sumerian ruler Gudea of Lagash, likely a member of the royal family known from Mesopotamian inscriptions.
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B.
Samsu-iluna
Samsu-iluna was a king of Babylon in the 18th century BCE, known for inheriting and struggling to maintain the vast empire established by his father Hammurabi.
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C.
Sin-leqi-unninni
Sin-leqi-unninni was a Babylonian scholar and scribe traditionally credited with compiling and editing the standard Akkadian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in the late second millennium BCE.
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D.
Gugalanna
Gugalanna is a Sumerian deity known as the Bull of Heaven, associated with the sky and sent by the gods as a destructive force in Mesopotamian mythology.
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E.
Inshushinak
Inshushinak is an ancient Elamite god associated with the city of Susa, often revered as a chief deity linked to justice, the underworld, and the protection of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Mesopotamian god ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Akkadian incantations
ⓘ
Gudea cylinders ⓘ
linked to:
Cylinder B of Gudea
Sumerian hymns ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dumuzi
ⓘ
Gudea of Lagash ⓘ
linked to:
Gudea
Tammuz ⓘ divination ⓘ fertility ⓘ healing ⓘ magic ⓘ rebirth ⓘ serpents ⓘ underworld ⓘ vegetation ⓘ |
| culture |
Akkadian religion
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamian religion
Babylonian religion ⓘ
linked to:
Babylonian polytheism
Sumerian religion ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
serpent
ⓘ
serpent-dragon ⓘ |
| domain |
chthonic deity
ⓘ
underworld gatekeeper ⓘ vegetation deity ⓘ |
| epithet | “Lord of the Good Tree” ⓘ |
| function |
guardian of palace or temple gates
ⓘ
mediator between humans and gods ⓘ protector of kings ⓘ |
| gender | male deity ⓘ |
| hasAnimalAssociation |
dragon
ⓘ
lion-dragon (mušḫuššu) ⓘ snake ⓘ |
| linkedConcept |
cyclical renewal of nature
ⓘ
life-death-rebirth cycle ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | “Lord of the Good Tree” ⓘ |
| role | guardian deity ⓘ |
| servedAs | personal god of Gudea of Lagash ⓘ |
| sometimesIdentifiedWith | underworld aspect of Dumuzi ⓘ |
| spouse |
Geshtinanna
ⓘ
Ninazimua ⓘ |
| symbol |
entwined serpents
ⓘ
horned serpent ⓘ staff with serpents ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Akkadian period
ⓘ
Early Dynastic period of Mesopotamia ⓘ
linked to:
Early Dynastic Mesopotamia
Ur III period ⓘ |
| worshipCenter |
Girsu
ⓘ
linked to:
city of Girsu
Lagash ⓘ Nippur ⓘ Ur ⓘ |
| worshipContinuity |
Old Babylonian period
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Babylonian Empire
|
| worshipPlace | 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: Ningishzida Description of subject: Ningishzida is a Mesopotamian god associated with the underworld, vegetation, and serpents, often depicted as a guardian deity and linked to rebirth and fertility.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ningishzida