Xipe Totec
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Xipe Totec is an important Mesoamerican deity, especially in Aztec religion, associated with agriculture, renewal, and ritual flaying symbolizing rebirth and regeneration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Xipe Totec canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3733699 — 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: Xipe Totec Context triple: [Cempoala, mainDeityVenerated, Xipe Totec]
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A.
Tezcatlipoca
Tezcatlipoca is a major Aztec deity associated with night, sorcery, conflict, and destiny, often depicted as a powerful and unpredictable god of rulership and change.
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B.
Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl is a major Mesoamerican deity often depicted as a feathered serpent and associated with wind, learning, and creation in cultures such as the Aztec and Toltec.
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C.
Coyolxauhqui
Coyolxauhqui is an Aztec moon goddess known from Mexica mythology, particularly for the myth in which she is dismembered by her brother Huitzilopochtli at the birth of the sun and war god.
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D.
Ahuitzotl
Ahuitzotl was a powerful Aztec tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlan known for expanding the empire to its greatest extent and overseeing major building projects, including the enlargement of the Templo Mayor.
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E.
Huitzilopochtli
Huitzilopochtli is the Aztec god of the sun and war, revered as the patron deity of Tenochtitlan and central to Mexica state religion and ritual sacrifice.
- 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: Xipe Totec Target entity description: Xipe Totec is an important Mesoamerican deity, especially in Aztec religion, associated with agriculture, renewal, and ritual flaying symbolizing rebirth and regeneration.
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A.
Tezcatlipoca
Tezcatlipoca is a major Aztec deity associated with night, sorcery, conflict, and destiny, often depicted as a powerful and unpredictable god of rulership and change.
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B.
Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl is a major Mesoamerican deity often depicted as a feathered serpent and associated with wind, learning, and creation in cultures such as the Aztec and Toltec.
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C.
Coyolxauhqui
Coyolxauhqui is an Aztec moon goddess known from Mexica mythology, particularly for the myth in which she is dismembered by her brother Huitzilopochtli at the birth of the sun and war god.
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D.
Ahuitzotl
Ahuitzotl was a powerful Aztec tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlan known for expanding the empire to its greatest extent and overseeing major building projects, including the enlargement of the Templo Mayor.
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E.
Huitzilopochtli
Huitzilopochtli is the Aztec god of the sun and war, revered as the patron deity of Tenochtitlan and central to Mexica state religion and ritual sacrifice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aztec deity
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Mesoamerican deity ⓘ agricultural deity ⓘ fertility deity ⓘ god of renewal ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture
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disease ⓘ fertility ⓘ goldsmiths ⓘ maize ⓘ rebirth ⓘ regeneration ⓘ renewal ⓘ ritual flaying ⓘ seeds ⓘ spring ⓘ |
| culture |
Aztec culture
ⓘ
surface form:
Aztec
Mexica ⓘ |
| festivalOccursIn | second month of the Aztec solar calendar ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasEpithet |
Our Lord the Flayed One
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Our Lord the Flayed One ⓘ
surface form:
The Flayed Lord
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| hasFestival | Tlacaxipehualiztli ⓘ |
| hasName | Xipe Totec self-link ⓘ |
| iconographyIncludes |
flayed human skin
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rattle staff ⓘ red and yellow coloration ⓘ shield ⓘ visible hands emerging from flayed hands ⓘ visible mouth beneath flayed lips ⓘ |
| pantheon | Aztec pantheon ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Tezcatlipoca
ⓘ
surface form:
Red Tezcatlipoca
|
| relatedTo |
Huitzilopochtli
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Quetzalcoatl ⓘ Tezcatlipoca ⓘ Tlaloc ⓘ |
| ritualInvolves |
flaying of victims
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human sacrifice ⓘ wearing flayed skin ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
agricultural cycle
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life emerging from death ⓘ new skin of the earth ⓘ renewal of vegetation ⓘ |
| worshipDocumentedIn |
Codex Borbonicus
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Codex Borgia ⓘ Florentine Codex ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Mexica
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surface form:
Aztecs
Tlaxcalans ⓘ other Nahua peoples ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
Central Mexico
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Tenochtitlan ⓘ |
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: Xipe Totec Description of subject: Xipe Totec is an important Mesoamerican deity, especially in Aztec religion, associated with agriculture, renewal, and ritual flaying symbolizing rebirth and regeneration.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.