Bel
E132022
Bel is a major Mesopotamian god, often identified with Marduk, revered as a supreme deity and lord of the heavens and earth in Babylonian religion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bel canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1151762 — 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: Bel Context triple: [Belshazzar, associatedDeity, Bel]
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A.
Bal
Bal is the given name of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent Indian nationalist leader and social reformer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
BEL
BEL is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code that uniquely identifies Belgium in international standards and data systems.
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C.
Be
"Be" is the critically acclaimed 2005 hip-hop album by Chicago rapper Common, celebrated for its soulful production by Kanye West and J Dilla and its introspective, socially conscious lyrics.
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D.
Bo
Bo was an extinct indigenous language of the Great Andamanese people, once spoken in the Andaman Islands of India.
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E.
Bek
Bek is a short or informal given name, typically used as a diminutive of Rebekah.
- 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: Bel Target entity description: Bel is a major Mesopotamian god, often identified with Marduk, revered as a supreme deity and lord of the heavens and earth in Babylonian religion.
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A.
Bal
Bal is the given name of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent Indian nationalist leader and social reformer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
BEL
BEL is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code that uniquely identifies Belgium in international standards and data systems.
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C.
Be
"Be" is the critically acclaimed 2005 hip-hop album by Chicago rapper Common, celebrated for its soulful production by Kanye West and J Dilla and its introspective, socially conscious lyrics.
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D.
Bo
Bo was an extinct indigenous language of the Great Andamanese people, once spoken in the Andaman Islands of India.
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E.
Bek
Bek is a short or informal given name, typically used as a diminutive of Rebekah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesopotamian god
ⓘ
deity ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Babylon ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
law and order
ⓘ
sovereignty ⓘ |
| associatedMyth | Enuma Elish ⓘ |
| associatedSymbol |
dragon
ⓘ
spade ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cosmic order
ⓘ
justice ⓘ kingship ⓘ storm ⓘ war ⓘ |
| centerOfCult | Esagila ⓘ |
| cosmicStatus | head of the divine assembly ⓘ |
| culture | Mesopotamian ⓘ |
| domain |
earth
ⓘ
heaven ⓘ |
| epithet |
Lord of Babylon
ⓘ
surface form:
Bel of Babylon
Almighty ⓘ
surface form:
Bel the lord
|
| equivalentInSumerian | Enlil ⓘ |
| function |
creator god
ⓘ
protector of Babylon ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Lord ⓘ |
| identifiedWith | Marduk ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
classical descriptions of Eastern gods
ⓘ
later Near Eastern religion ⓘ |
| language | Akkadian ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | Lord ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole |
champion of the gods
ⓘ
dragon slayer ⓘ |
| pantheon |
Babylonian pantheon
ⓘ
Mesopotamian pantheon ⓘ |
| regionOfCult |
Babylon
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonia
southern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| religion |
Babylonian polytheism
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonian religion
|
| role | supreme deity ⓘ |
| temple | Esagila ⓘ |
| title |
king of the gods
ⓘ
lord of the heavens and the earth ⓘ |
| typeOfDeity |
national god
ⓘ
sky god ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Akkadians
ⓘ
Babylonians ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod |
1st millennium BCE
ⓘ
2nd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| worshipPlace | Babylon ⓘ |
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: Bel Description of subject: Bel is a major Mesopotamian god, often identified with Marduk, revered as a supreme deity and lord of the heavens and earth in Babylonian religion.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.