Anubis
E103817
Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife, typically depicted as a jackal-headed figure who guides and protects souls of the dead.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anubis canonical | 32 |
| Anubis weighing the heart | 1 |
| Hunefer led by Anubis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T807923 — 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: Anubis Context triple: [Pharaonic Egypt, majorDeity, Anubis]
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A.
Nephthys
Nephthys is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with mourning, protection, and the night, often depicted as the sister of Isis and Osiris and the wife of Set.
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B.
Osiris
Osiris is the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife, resurrection, and fertility, often depicted as a mummified king and central to Egyptian funerary religion.
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C.
Thoth
Thoth is the ancient Egyptian god of writing, wisdom, magic, and the moon, often depicted as an ibis-headed scribe of the gods.
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D.
Serapis
Serapis is a Greco-Egyptian syncretic god combining aspects of Osiris and Apis with Hellenistic deities, worshipped widely in the Ptolemaic and Roman worlds.
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E.
Horus
Horus is a major ancient Egyptian sky and kingship god, often depicted as a falcon or falcon-headed man and closely associated with divine rulership and protection.
- 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: Anubis Target entity description: Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife, typically depicted as a jackal-headed figure who guides and protects souls of the dead.
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A.
Nephthys
Nephthys is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with mourning, protection, and the night, often depicted as the sister of Isis and Osiris and the wife of Set.
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B.
Osiris
Osiris is the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife, resurrection, and fertility, often depicted as a mummified king and central to Egyptian funerary religion.
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C.
Thoth
Thoth is the ancient Egyptian god of writing, wisdom, magic, and the moon, often depicted as an ibis-headed scribe of the gods.
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D.
Serapis
Serapis is a Greco-Egyptian syncretic god combining aspects of Osiris and Apis with Hellenistic deities, worshipped widely in the Ptolemaic and Roman worlds.
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E.
Horus
Horus is a major ancient Egyptian sky and kingship god, often depicted as a falcon or falcon-headed man and closely associated with divine rulership and protection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Egyptian deity
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death god ⓘ psychopomp ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Book of the Dead
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Coffin Texts ⓘ Pyramid Texts ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Osiris
ⓘ
Thoth ⓘ Wepwawet ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
afterlife
ⓘ
embalming ⓘ funerary rites ⓘ mummification ⓘ necropolis ⓘ |
| consortInSomeTraditions | Anput ⓘ |
| cultType | state cult and local cult ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| depiction |
black canine
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black jackal ⓘ man with a jackal head ⓘ |
| domain |
cemeteries
ⓘ
tombs ⓘ underworld ⓘ |
| egyptianName |
Anpu
ⓘ
Inpw ⓘ |
| functionInJudgment | weighing the heart against the feather of Ma’at ⓘ |
| greekName | Anubis self-link ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
ankh
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flail ⓘ was-scepter ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole |
inventor of embalming in some myths
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protector of Osiris’s body ⓘ |
| offspringInSomeTraditions | Kebechet ⓘ |
| parentInSomeTraditions |
Nephthys
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Osiris ⓘ Ra ⓘ Set ⓘ |
| role |
guardian of tombs
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guide of souls ⓘ overseer of mummification ⓘ protector of the dead ⓘ weigher of the heart ⓘ |
| symbolism |
black color representing rebirth and fertility of the Nile soil
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protection of graves ⓘ transition to the afterlife ⓘ |
| title |
Foremost of the Westerners
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He Who Is in the Place of Embalming ⓘ Lord of the Sacred Land ⓘ |
| worshipCenter |
Cynopolis
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Saqqara necropolis ⓘ
surface form:
Saqqara
Thebes ⓘ |
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: Anubis Description of subject: Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife, typically depicted as a jackal-headed figure who guides and protects souls of the dead.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Temple of Isis (Pompeii)
this entity surface form:
Anubis weighing the heart
this entity surface form:
Hunefer led by Anubis
subject surface form:
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
subject surface form:
Sanctuary of Isis at Dion