Anu

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Anu is the ancient Mesopotamian sky god and supreme ruler of the pantheon, associated with authority, kingship, and the heavens.

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Label Occurrences
Anu canonical 38

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesopotamian deity
sky god
supreme god
appearsIn Atrahasis
Enuma Elish
Epic of Gilgamesh
associatedPlace Uruk archaeological site
surface form: Eanna temple complex in Uruk
associatedWith authority
cosmic order
kingship
culture Akkadian religion
Assyrian religion
Babylonian polytheism
surface form: Babylonian religion

Sumerian religion
surface form: Mesopotamian religion

Sumerian religion
domain heaven
sky
equivalent An
function conferring divine authority
granting kingship
issuing decrees of fate
majorCultCenter Der
Uruk
memberOf Anunnaki
parentOf Anunnaki
Ea
Enlil
Inanna
surface form: Ishtar

Namtar
Nuska
surface form: Nusku
residence Uruk
heaven
role head of the divine assembly
supreme ruler of the pantheon
spouse Antu
Ki
Uras
symbol horned crown
star
title Father of the Gods
King of the Gods
Lord of the Gods
surface form: Lord of the Heavens
worshipPeriod 1st millennium BCE
2nd millennium BCE
3rd millennium BCE
worshipRegion Akkad
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: Anu
Description of subject: Anu is the ancient Mesopotamian sky god and supreme ruler of the pantheon, associated with authority, kingship, and the heavens.

Referenced by (38)

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