Nergal

E196148

Mesopotamian god deity

Nergal is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated primarily with war, plague, and the underworld.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Nergal canonical	15
Pazuzu	2

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Mesopotamian god ⓘ deity ⓘ
appearsInText	Akkadian myths ⓘ Assyrian royal inscriptions ⓘ Babylonian incantations ⓘ
associatedWith	death ⓘ destruction ⓘ drought ⓘ pestilence ⓘ plague ⓘ summer heat ⓘ underworld ⓘ war ⓘ
consort	Ereshkigal ⓘ
culture	Mesopotamian religion ⓘ
domain	disease ⓘ underworld ⓘ war ⓘ
epithet	king of the underworld ⓘ lord of Kutha ⓘ lord of the underworld ⓘ
equatedWith	Erra ⓘ Irra ⓘ Meslamtaea ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
hasTemple	E-Meslam in Kutha ⓘ
influenced	later Near Eastern underworld concepts ⓘ
languageOfName	Akkadian ⓘ
majorCultCenter	Cuthah ⓘ Kutha ⓘ
mythologicalPeriod	Bronze Age ⓘ
parents	Enlil ⓘ Ninlil ⓘ
region	Lower Mesopotamia ⓘ surface form: southern Mesopotamia
role	chthonic deity ⓘ god of plague ⓘ god of the underworld ⓘ god of war ⓘ
rulesOver	land of the dead ⓘ underworld ⓘ
spouse	Ereshkigal ⓘ
symbol	lion ⓘ mace ⓘ standard with lion ⓘ
worshipedIn	Akkad ⓘ Mesopotamia ⓘ surface form: Ancient Mesopotamia Assyria ⓘ Mesopotamia ⓘ surface form: Babylonia Sumer ⓘ

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: Nergal
Description of subject: Nergal is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated primarily with war, plague, and the underworld.

Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hatra → otherDeityVenerated → Nergal ⓘ

Enlil → child → Nergal ⓘ

Babylonian polytheism → majorDeity → Nergal ⓘ

Ereshkigal → spouse → Nergal ⓘ

Ereshkigal → associatedDeity → Nergal ⓘ

Ereshkigal → consortInMyth → Nergal ⓘ

Sumerian religion → hasDeity → Nergal ⓘ

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy → featuresCharacter → Nergal ⓘ

Resheph → hasEquivalent → Nergal ⓘ

Ninlil → parentOf → Nergal ⓘ

Namtar → servesDeity → Nergal ⓘ

Enlil and Ninlil → relatedDeity → Nergal ⓘ

Regan MacNeil → possessedBy → Nergal ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pazuzu

Father Lankester Merrin → confronts → Nergal ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pazuzu

Mesopotamian religion → hasCentralDeity → Nergal ⓘ

John Constantine → enemy → Nergal ⓘ

Babylonian kingship ideology → hasKeyDeity → Nergal ⓘ