Cuthah
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Cuthah was an ancient Mesopotamian city best known as the principal cult center of the underworld god Nergal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cuthah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8350672 — 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: Cuthah Context triple: [Nergal, majorCultCenter, Cuthah]
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A.
Canaan City
Canaan City is a popular nickname for Calabar, a historic coastal city in southeastern Nigeria known for its rich culture and tourism.
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B.
Lachish
Lachish was a major fortified Canaanite and later Judahite city in the Shephelah region, known as a strategic military and administrative center in ancient Israel.
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C.
Hamath
Hamath is an ancient city of Syria, frequently mentioned in Near Eastern and biblical sources, located at the site of modern Hama on the Orontes River.
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D.
Baal-hazor
Baal-hazor is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the site where Absalom orchestrated the killing of his half-brother Amnon.
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E.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
- 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: Cuthah Target entity description: Cuthah was an ancient Mesopotamian city best known as the principal cult center of the underworld god Nergal.
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A.
Canaan City
Canaan City is a popular nickname for Calabar, a historic coastal city in southeastern Nigeria known for its rich culture and tourism.
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B.
Lachish
Lachish was a major fortified Canaanite and later Judahite city in the Shephelah region, known as a strategic military and administrative center in ancient Israel.
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C.
Hamath
Hamath is an ancient city of Syria, frequently mentioned in Near Eastern and biblical sources, located at the site of modern Hama on the Orontes River.
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D.
Baal-hazor
Baal-hazor is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the site where Absalom orchestrated the killing of his half-brother Amnon.
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E.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Mesopotamian city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| archaeologicalRemainsInclude |
cuneiform tablets
ⓘ
inscribed bricks ⓘ temple ruins ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
death
ⓘ
underworld ⓘ |
| coordinateRoleInMythology | gateway to the underworld ⓘ |
| country | Iraq ⓘ |
| culture |
Akkadian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Babylonian ⓘ |
| deityTypeVenerated |
plague god
ⓘ
war god ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | Hormuzd Rassam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| excavationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Kutha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTransliteration | Kutu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBiblicalEthnonym | Cuthites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTemple | E-meslam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Bronze Age
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the underworld
ⓘ
cult of Nergal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Akkadian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Babylonia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTempleDedicatedTo | Nergal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorDeityWorshiped | Nergal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
2 Kings 17:24
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
cuneiform texts ⓘ |
| near |
Babylon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
modern Tell Ibrahim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | ancient Near East ⓘ |
| periodOfFlourishing |
Neo-Babylonian period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old Babylonian period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalEntityDuringAntiquity |
Achaemenid Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Babylonian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Neo-Babylonian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| principalCultCenterOf | Nergal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | central Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian religion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousRole | major cult center ⓘ |
| status | abandoned city ⓘ |
| typeOfDeityCult | underworld god cult ⓘ |
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: Cuthah Description of subject: Cuthah was an ancient Mesopotamian city best known as the principal cult center of the underworld god Nergal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.