Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil
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Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil was a prominent Classic-period Maya king renowned for his monumental building projects and artistic achievements at the city of Copán.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil canonical | 3 |
| Uaxaclajuun Ub’aah K’awiil | 2 |
| Waxaklajuun Ubaah Kʼawiil | 2 |
| Uaxaclajuun Ubah Kʼawiil | 1 |
| Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Chan Kʼawiil | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1577396 — 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: Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil Context triple: [Copán, notableRuler, Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil]
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A.
Kʼinich Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ
Kʼinich Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ was a prominent early Classic Maya king who founded the royal dynasty of Copán in present-day Honduras.
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B.
Kʼawiil
Kʼawiil is a prominent Maya deity associated with lightning, royal power, and dynastic legitimacy in Mesoamerican religion.
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C.
Chaac
Chaac is the Maya rain and storm god, revered as a bringer of fertility and life-giving water.
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D.
Centzon Huitznahua
Centzon Huitznahua are a group of four hundred southern star deities in Aztec mythology who are known as the hostile brothers and adversaries of the god Huitzilopochtli.
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E.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
- 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: Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil Target entity description: Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil was a prominent Classic-period Maya king renowned for his monumental building projects and artistic achievements at the city of Copán.
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A.
Kʼinich Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ
Kʼinich Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ was a prominent early Classic Maya king who founded the royal dynasty of Copán in present-day Honduras.
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B.
Kʼawiil
Kʼawiil is a prominent Maya deity associated with lightning, royal power, and dynastic legitimacy in Mesoamerican religion.
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C.
Chaac
Chaac is the Maya rain and storm god, revered as a bringer of fertility and life-giving water.
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D.
Centzon Huitznahua
Centzon Huitznahua are a group of four hundred southern star deities in Aztec mythology who are known as the hostile brothers and adversaries of the god Huitzilopochtli.
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E.
Itza Maya
The Itza Maya were a powerful Late Postclassic Maya group centered at Nojpetén in present-day Guatemala, known as one of the last independent Maya polities to resist Spanish conquest until the late 17th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil Description of subject: Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil was a prominent Classic-period Maya king renowned for his monumental building projects and artistic achievements at the city of Copán.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Uaxaclajuun Ub’aah K’awiil
this entity surface form:
Waxaklajuun Ubaah Kʼawiil
this entity surface form:
Waxaklajuun Ubaah Kʼawiil
this entity surface form:
Uaxaclajuun Ubah Kʼawiil
this entity surface form:
Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Chan Kʼawiil
this entity surface form:
Uaxaclajuun Ub’aah K’awiil