Moloch
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Moloch is an ancient Near Eastern deity often associated with child sacrifice and later demonized in Jewish, Christian, and modern cultural traditions.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moloch canonical | 5 |
| Molech | 3 |
| worship of Molech | 2 |
| "Moloch" | 1 |
| Mammon | 1 |
| Molekh | 1 |
| Moloch (symbolic figure) | 1 |
| Moloch the Mystic | 1 |
| Old Testament Moloch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2005708 — 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: Moloch Context triple: [Malik, hasCognate, Moloch]
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A.
Dagon
Dagon is an ancient Semitic deity, often associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the sea, worshipped across regions including Phoenicia and Mesopotamia.
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B.
Demogorgon
Demogorgon is a terrifying predatory monster from the Upside Down in the TV series "Stranger Things," known for its humanoid body and flower-like, tooth-filled head.
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C.
Orcus
Orcus is a large trans-Neptunian dwarf-planet candidate in the Kuiper Belt, often considered a "twin" of Pluto due to its similar size, orbit, and composition.
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D.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
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E.
Algazel
Algazel is the Latinized name of Al-Ghazali, the influential 11th-century Persian theologian, jurist, philosopher, and Sufi whose works profoundly shaped Islamic thought and medieval European philosophy.
- 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: Moloch Target entity description: Moloch is an ancient Near Eastern deity often associated with child sacrifice and later demonized in Jewish, Christian, and modern cultural traditions.
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A.
Dagon
Dagon is an ancient Semitic deity, often associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the sea, worshipped across regions including Phoenicia and Mesopotamia.
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B.
Demogorgon
Demogorgon is a terrifying predatory monster from the Upside Down in the TV series "Stranger Things," known for its humanoid body and flower-like, tooth-filled head.
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C.
Orcus
Orcus is a large trans-Neptunian dwarf-planet candidate in the Kuiper Belt, often considered a "twin" of Pluto due to its similar size, orbit, and composition.
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D.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
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E.
Algazel
Algazel is the Latinized name of Al-Ghazali, the influential 11th-century Persian theologian, jurist, philosopher, and Sufi whose works profoundly shaped Islamic thought and medieval European philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Near Eastern deity
ⓘ
deity ⓘ figure in Abrahamic religions ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Allen Ginsberg's Howl
ⓘ
Paradise Lost ⓘ
surface form:
John Milton's Paradise Lost
modern fantasy literature ⓘ role-playing game mythologies ⓘ various modern occult writings ⓘ |
| associatedRitualLocation | Valley of Hinnom ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
child sacrifice
ⓘ
fire rituals ⓘ idolatry ⓘ |
| category |
Biblical figures
ⓘ
Demons in Christianity ⓘ Demons in Judaism ⓘ Near Eastern mythology ⓘ |
| condemnedBy | biblical prophets ⓘ |
| condemnedIn |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Near East
ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Near East
|
| depictedAs |
symbol of industrial-capitalist society in Howl
ⓘ
war-like demon in Paradise Lost ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary political and social criticism
ⓘ
modern metaphor of "sacrificing children" to ideology ⓘ |
| interpretedAs | title rather than personal name by some scholars ⓘ |
| laterCharacterizedAs |
demon
ⓘ
false god ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Valley of Hinnom
ⓘ
surface form:
Tophet in the Valley of Hinnom
|
| mentionedIn |
Book of Jeremiah
ⓘ
Books of Kings ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Kings
Book of Leviticus ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| nameVariant |
Moloch
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Molech
Molek ⓘ Moloch self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Molekh
|
| religion |
Canaanite religion
ⓘ
Phoenician religion ⓘ ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| roleIn |
Christian demonology
ⓘ
Jewish demonology ⓘ |
| subjectOf | scholarly debate on historicity of child sacrifice ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
cruelty
ⓘ
destructive social systems ⓘ human sacrifice ⓘ sacrifice of children to power or greed ⓘ |
| worshipPracticedBy |
Canaanites
ⓘ
Phoenician civilization ⓘ
surface form:
Phoenicians
some ancient Israelites ⓘ |
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: Moloch Description of subject: Moloch is an ancient Near Eastern deity often associated with child sacrifice and later demonized in Jewish, Christian, and modern cultural traditions.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Moloch (symbolic figure)
this entity surface form:
worship of Molech
this entity surface form:
worship of Molech
this entity surface form:
Molech
this entity surface form:
Molech
this entity surface form:
Moloch the Mystic
this entity surface form:
Molech
this entity surface form:
Molekh
this entity surface form:
Mammon
subject surface form:
Part II (section of "Howl")
subject surface form:
Part II (section of "Howl")
subject surface form:
Part II (section of "Howl")
this entity surface form:
"Moloch"
subject surface form:
Part II (section of "Howl")
this entity surface form:
Old Testament Moloch