Dagan
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Dagan is an ancient Northwest Semitic god, particularly revered by the Amorites and later in Mesopotamia, commonly associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the underworld.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dagan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3698074 — 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: Dagan Context triple: [Amorites, deity, Dagan]
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A.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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B.
Dayan
Dayan is a Hebrew surname most famously associated with Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Dayan.
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C.
Iddo
Iddo is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament, known primarily as an ancestor of the prophet Zechariah and sometimes identified as a seer or priest.
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D.
Galeed
Galeed is the biblical site in Gilead where Jacob and Laban formalized their covenant with a commemorative heap of stones.
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E.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
- 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: Dagan Target entity description: Dagan is an ancient Northwest Semitic god, particularly revered by the Amorites and later in Mesopotamia, commonly associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the underworld.
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A.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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B.
Dayan
Dayan is a Hebrew surname most famously associated with Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Dayan.
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C.
Iddo
Iddo is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament, known primarily as an ancestor of the prophet Zechariah and sometimes identified as a seer or priest.
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D.
Galeed
Galeed is the biblical site in Gilead where Jacob and Laban formalized their covenant with a commemorative heap of stones.
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E.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Northwest Semitic god
ⓘ
deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture
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fertility ⓘ grain ⓘ kingship ⓘ underworld ⓘ weather ⓘ |
| culture |
Amorites
ⓘ
Assyrians ⓘ Babylonians ⓘ Canaanites ⓘ Philistines ⓘ |
| domain |
abundance of crops
ⓘ
fertility of the land ⓘ |
| equivalentForm | Dagon ⓘ |
| languageAttestedIn |
Akkadian
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Aramaic ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Ugaritic language ⓘ
surface form:
Ugaritic
|
| mentionedIn |
Akkadian royal inscriptions
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Mari texts ⓘ Ugaritic texts ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Baal
ⓘ
surface form:
Baal (in some traditions)
Hadad ⓘ |
| religion |
Amorite religion
ⓘ
Mesopotamian religion ⓘ Canaanite religion ⓘ
surface form:
Northwest Semitic religion
|
| role | patron god of several Syrian and Mesopotamian cities ⓘ |
| spouse |
Shala
ⓘ
surface form:
Shala (in some traditions)
|
| typeOfCult | state cult (in some cities) ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod |
2nd millennium BCE
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3rd millennium BCE ⓘ early 1st millennium BCE ⓘ |
| worshipPlace |
Ashdod
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Beth-dagon ⓘ Ebla ⓘ Emar ⓘ Gaza Governorate ⓘ
surface form:
Gaza
Mari ⓘ Mesopotamia ⓘ Mesopotamian temples ⓘ Middle Euphrates region ⓘ Philistia ⓘ Syria ⓘ Terqa ⓘ Ugarit ⓘ |
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: Dagan Description of subject: Dagan is an ancient Northwest Semitic god, particularly revered by the Amorites and later in Mesopotamia, commonly associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the underworld.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.