Ninsumun
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Ninsumun is a Mesopotamian goddess, best known as the mother of the hero Gilgamesh and associated with wisdom, fertility, and wild cows.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ninsumun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9662189 — 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: Ninsumun Context triple: [Ninsun, epithet, Ninsumun]
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A.
Tumshuq
Tumshuq is an ancient city in the Tarim Basin region of Xinjiang, China, historically associated with the Saka (Scythian) peoples and their Eastern Iranian languages.
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B.
Mitanni
Mitanni was a powerful Hurrian-speaking kingdom of the Late Bronze Age in northern Mesopotamia and Syria, known for its chariotry, diplomacy, and rivalry with contemporary great powers such as Egypt and the Hittites.
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C.
Nunkun
Nunkun is a prominent twin-peaked mountain massif in the Indian Himalayas, known for its challenging climbs and dramatic glaciated terrain.
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D.
Nimmu
Nimmu is a small village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India, known as a scenic stop on the Srinagar–Leh highway and a popular rafting and sightseeing point near the confluence of the Indus and Zanskar rivers.
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E.
Sindalah
Sindalah is a luxury island destination in Saudi Arabia’s NEOM mega-development, designed as an exclusive hub for high-end tourism, yachting, and leisure on the Red Sea.
- 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: Ninsumun Target entity description: Ninsumun is a Mesopotamian goddess, best known as the mother of the hero Gilgamesh and associated with wisdom, fertility, and wild cows.
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A.
Tumshuq
Tumshuq is an ancient city in the Tarim Basin region of Xinjiang, China, historically associated with the Saka (Scythian) peoples and their Eastern Iranian languages.
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B.
Mitanni
Mitanni was a powerful Hurrian-speaking kingdom of the Late Bronze Age in northern Mesopotamia and Syria, known for its chariotry, diplomacy, and rivalry with contemporary great powers such as Egypt and the Hittites.
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C.
Nunkun
Nunkun is a prominent twin-peaked mountain massif in the Indian Himalayas, known for its challenging climbs and dramatic glaciated terrain.
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D.
Nimmu
Nimmu is a small village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India, known as a scenic stop on the Srinagar–Leh highway and a popular rafting and sightseeing point near the confluence of the Indus and Zanskar rivers.
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E.
Sindalah
Sindalah is a luxury island destination in Saudi Arabia’s NEOM mega-development, designed as an exclusive hub for high-end tourism, yachting, and leisure on the Red Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Mesopotamian goddess ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cattle
ⓘ
fertility ⓘ wild cows ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
| cultCenter |
Ur
ⓘ
Uruk ⓘ |
| culture |
Akkadian religion
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamian religion
Sumerian religion ⓘ |
| domain |
animal fertility
ⓘ
maternal protection ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
| epithet |
Holy Cow of the Enclosure
ⓘ
Lady of the Wild Cows ⓘ Mother of Gilgamesh ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
mother of Dumuzi in some traditions
ⓘ
mother of Gilgamesh ⓘ wife of Lugalbanda ⓘ |
| gender | female deity ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
intercessory power
ⓘ
maternal care ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Sumerian
ⓘ
linked to:
Sumerian language
|
| mentionedIn | Epic of Gilgamesh ⓘ |
| motherOf | Gilgamesh ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Ninsun
ⓘ
Ninsuna ⓘ Rimat-Ninsun ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedAs | cow goddess ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedWith |
horned crown
ⓘ
long robe ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Dumuzi
ⓘ
Gilgamesh ⓘ |
| residence |
Uruk in some traditions
ⓘ
divine realm ⓘ |
| roleInEpicOfGilgamesh |
advises Gilgamesh before his journey with Enkidu
ⓘ
intercedes with Shamash on behalf of Gilgamesh ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Lugalbanda ⓘ |
| typeOfDeity |
cow goddess
ⓘ
mother goddess ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Akkadians
ⓘ
Sumerians ⓘ
linked to:
Sumer
|
| worshipPeriod |
Early Dynastic period
ⓘ
Old Babylonian period ⓘ
linked to:
Old Babylonian Empire
|
| worshipRegion | 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: Ninsumun Description of subject: Ninsumun is a Mesopotamian goddess, best known as the mother of the hero Gilgamesh and associated with wisdom, fertility, and wild cows.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.