Irra
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Irra is a Mesopotamian god associated with war, plague, and destruction, often regarded as a fierce aspect or manifestation of the underworld deity Nergal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irra canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8350678 — 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: Irra Context triple: [Nergal, equatedWith, Irra]
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A.
Iba
Iba is a coastal municipality in the Philippines that serves as the administrative and economic center of the province of Zambales.
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B.
Ranna
Ranna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet, celebrated as one of the “three gems” of early Kannada literature for his influential epic and courtly works.
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C.
Ila
Ila is a central fictional character in the 2014 biblical epic film "Noah," portrayed as Noah's adopted daughter and Shem's wife, whose personal journey and relationships drive much of the movie's emotional narrative.
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D.
Warihío
Warihío is an Indigenous Uto-Aztecan-speaking people of northwestern Mexico, primarily living in the Sierra Madre Occidental region of Chihuahua and Sonora.
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E.
Ilo
Ilo is a given name associated with the individual Ilo Browne Wallace.
- 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: Irra Target entity description: Irra is a Mesopotamian god associated with war, plague, and destruction, often regarded as a fierce aspect or manifestation of the underworld deity Nergal.
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A.
Iba
Iba is a coastal municipality in the Philippines that serves as the administrative and economic center of the province of Zambales.
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B.
Ranna
Ranna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet, celebrated as one of the “three gems” of early Kannada literature for his influential epic and courtly works.
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C.
Ila
Ila is a central fictional character in the 2014 biblical epic film "Noah," portrayed as Noah's adopted daughter and Shem's wife, whose personal journey and relationships drive much of the movie's emotional narrative.
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D.
Warihío
Warihío is an Indigenous Uto-Aztecan-speaking people of northwestern Mexico, primarily living in the Sierra Madre Occidental region of Chihuahua and Sonora.
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E.
Ilo
Ilo is a given name associated with the individual Ilo Browne Wallace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesopotamian god
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destruction deity ⓘ plague deity ⓘ war deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Nergal
NERFINISHED
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destruction ⓘ plague ⓘ underworld ⓘ war ⓘ |
| attestedInLanguage |
Akkadian
ⓘ
Sumerian ⓘ |
| belongsToPantheon |
Akkadian pantheon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Assyrian pantheon NERFINISHED ⓘ Babylonian pantheon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
destructive
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violent ⓘ wrathful ⓘ |
| consideredAspectOf | Nergal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | benevolent healing deities ⓘ |
| cosmicFunction |
agent of divine punishment
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bringer of chaos and ruin ⓘ |
| culture | Mesopotamian religion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| domain |
devastation of cities
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epidemics ⓘ mass death ⓘ warfare ⓘ |
| equatedWith | Erra in some scholarly traditions ⓘ |
| fearedAs | bringer of sudden catastrophe ⓘ |
| gender | male deity ⓘ |
| hasEpithet |
bringer of destruction
ⓘ
fierce god of war ⓘ lord of plague ⓘ |
| invokedFor |
destruction of enemies
ⓘ
military success ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole |
personification of destructive warfare
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personification of epidemic plague ⓘ |
| opposedTo | order and stability ⓘ |
| relatedDeity | Erra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesFunctionsWith | Nergal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOf | chthonic deity ⓘ |
| worshippedIn | ancient Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worshipType | state cult and local cults ⓘ |
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: Irra Description of subject: Irra is a Mesopotamian god associated with war, plague, and destruction, often regarded as a fierce aspect or manifestation of the underworld deity Nergal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.