Chacmool sculptures
E266083
Chacmool sculptures are Mesoamerican stone figures depicting reclining warriors with upraised heads and bowls or disks on their stomachs, used as ritual altars for offerings, especially in Aztec and Maya temples.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chacmool sculptures canonical | 2 |
| Chac Mool sculpture | 1 |
| chacmool sculptures | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2413358 — 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: Chacmool sculptures Context triple: [Templo Mayor, hasArtifact, Chacmool sculptures]
-
A.
the Lanzón monolith
The Lanzón monolith is a towering, fanged stone deity sculpture at the heart of the Chavín de Huántar temple complex in Peru, serving as a central religious icon of the Chavín civilization.
-
B.
Monolith of Tlaloc
The Monolith of Tlaloc is a massive pre-Hispanic stone sculpture representing the Aztec rain god Tlaloc, renowned as one of the largest monolithic statues in the world.
-
C.
Gateway of the Sun
The Gateway of the Sun is a monumental pre-Columbian stone arch in Tiwanaku, Bolivia, famed for its intricate carvings and central role in Andean religious and astronomical traditions.
-
D.
Piedra del Sol
Piedra del Sol is a monumental Aztec basalt sculpture, often called the Aztec Sun Stone, renowned for its intricate calendrical and cosmological carvings.
-
E.
Kukulcán
Kukulcán is the feathered serpent deity of the Maya, associated with wind, rain, and creation, and prominently worshipped at Chichén Itzá.
- 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: Chacmool sculptures Target entity description: Chacmool sculptures are Mesoamerican stone figures depicting reclining warriors with upraised heads and bowls or disks on their stomachs, used as ritual altars for offerings, especially in Aztec and Maya temples.
-
A.
the Lanzón monolith
The Lanzón monolith is a towering, fanged stone deity sculpture at the heart of the Chavín de Huántar temple complex in Peru, serving as a central religious icon of the Chavín civilization.
-
B.
Monolith of Tlaloc
The Monolith of Tlaloc is a massive pre-Hispanic stone sculpture representing the Aztec rain god Tlaloc, renowned as one of the largest monolithic statues in the world.
-
C.
Gateway of the Sun
The Gateway of the Sun is a monumental pre-Columbian stone arch in Tiwanaku, Bolivia, famed for its intricate carvings and central role in Andean religious and astronomical traditions.
-
D.
Piedra del Sol
Piedra del Sol is a monumental Aztec basalt sculpture, often called the Aztec Sun Stone, renowned for its intricate calendrical and cosmological carvings.
-
E.
Kukulcán
Kukulcán is the feathered serpent deity of the Maya, associated with wind, rain, and creation, and prominently worshipped at Chichén Itzá.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican sculpture type
ⓘ
ritual object ⓘ stone figure ⓘ |
| artHistoricalCategory |
Mesoamerican monumental sculpture
ⓘ
Pre-Columbian era ⓘ
surface form:
Pre-Columbian art
|
| associatedWithCulture |
Aztec culture
ⓘ
surface form:
Aztec
Maya ⓘ Postclassic period of Mesoamerica ⓘ
surface form:
Postclassic Mesoamerica
Toltec civilization ⓘ
surface form:
Toltec
|
| chronologicalPeriod | Postclassic period ⓘ |
| chronologicalRange | approximately 800–1521 CE ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Mesoamerican religion ⓘ |
| depicts |
reclining human figure
ⓘ
warrior ⓘ |
| etymology | term "Chacmool" coined by Augustus Le Plongeon ⓘ |
| etymologyLanguage | Yucatec Maya ⓘ |
| foundInSite |
Chichén Itzá
ⓘ
surface form:
Chichen Itza
Templo Mayor ⓘ Tula (Tollan) ⓘ |
| foundInStructureType |
ceremonial platform
ⓘ
pyramid ⓘ temple ⓘ |
| hasBodyPosture | reclining on back or side ⓘ |
| hasHeadPosition | upraised head ⓘ |
| hasSupportOnStomach |
bowl
ⓘ
disk ⓘ |
| iconographicFeature |
bent legs
ⓘ
hands holding bowl or disk ⓘ head turned to one side ⓘ warrior attributes ⓘ |
| positionWithinTemple |
in front of sanctuary
ⓘ
near main stairway ⓘ |
| possibleFunction |
reception of blood offerings
ⓘ
reception of hearts of sacrificial victims ⓘ reception of incense ⓘ |
| region |
Central Mexico
ⓘ
Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
| religiousAssociation |
rain and storm deities in some contexts
ⓘ
warfare rituals ⓘ |
| scholarlyDebate |
identity of the reclining figure
ⓘ
specific deity versus generic warrior or messenger ⓘ |
| typicalMaterial | stone ⓘ |
| usedAs | altar ⓘ |
| usedFor |
presentation of food or incense
ⓘ
ritual offerings ⓘ sacrificial offerings ⓘ |
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: Chacmool sculptures Description of subject: Chacmool sculptures are Mesoamerican stone figures depicting reclining warriors with upraised heads and bowls or disks on their stomachs, used as ritual altars for offerings, especially in Aztec and Maya temples.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
chacmool sculptures
this entity surface form:
Chac Mool sculpture