Shaushtatar
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Shaushtatar was a powerful 15th-century BCE king of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, known for expanding its influence across northern Mesopotamia and Syria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shaushtatar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13390660 — 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: Shaushtatar Context triple: [Mitanni kingdom, notableRuler, Shaushtatar]
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A.
Atra-hasis
Atra-hasis is a legendary wise man and flood hero from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, best known from the Akkadian Atra-Hasis Epic that recounts a great deluge sent by the gods.
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B.
Drinishader
Drinishader is a small village on the Isle of Harris in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, known for its coastal setting and traditional crofting landscape.
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C.
Bahulavan
Bahulavan is one of the twelve sacred forests of Vraja, revered in Hindu tradition as a pastoral area associated with Lord Krishna’s cowherd pastimes.
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D.
Manishtushu
Manishtushu was an Akkadian king of the 23rd century BCE, traditionally regarded as one of the early rulers who helped consolidate the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia.
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E.
Ziusudra
Ziusudra is a figure from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, often regarded as a Sumerian flood hero who survives a great deluge and attains immortality, paralleling later characters like Utnapishtim and Noah.
- 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: Shaushtatar Target entity description: Shaushtatar was a powerful 15th-century BCE king of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, known for expanding its influence across northern Mesopotamia and Syria.
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A.
Atra-hasis
Atra-hasis is a legendary wise man and flood hero from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, best known from the Akkadian Atra-Hasis Epic that recounts a great deluge sent by the gods.
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B.
Drinishader
Drinishader is a small village on the Isle of Harris in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, known for its coastal setting and traditional crofting landscape.
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C.
Bahulavan
Bahulavan is one of the twelve sacred forests of Vraja, revered in Hindu tradition as a pastoral area associated with Lord Krishna’s cowherd pastimes.
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D.
Manishtushu
Manishtushu was an Akkadian king of the 23rd century BCE, traditionally regarded as one of the early rulers who helped consolidate the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia.
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E.
Ziusudra
Ziusudra is a figure from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, often regarded as a Sumerian flood hero who survives a great deluge and attains immortality, paralleling later characters like Utnapishtim and Noah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hurrian ruler
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Mitanni king ⓘ king ⓘ |
| capital | Washukanni ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Mitanni ⓘ |
| culture | Hurrian ⓘ |
| diplomaticRelations |
Egypt (indirectly, via later Mitanni–Egyptian contacts)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mitanni–Egypt relations
Kingdom of Aleppo ⓘ Kingdom of Assyria ⓘ
linked to:
Assyria
|
| ethnicGroup |
Hurrians
ⓘ
linked to:
Hurrian
|
| floruit | 15th century BCE ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Late Bronze Age Near East ⓘ |
| historicity | generally accepted by historians ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the most powerful Mitanni kings
ⓘ
expansion of Mitanni power in Syria ⓘ expansion of Mitanni power in northern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| language | Hurrian ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
campaigns in Syria
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campaigns in northern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| occupation | king ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | Great King ⓘ |
| predecessor | Parshatatar ⓘ |
| realm | Mitanni ⓘ |
| region |
Northern Mesopotamia
ⓘ
linked to:
Upper Mesopotamia
Syria ⓘ |
| religion | Hurrian religion ⓘ |
| sourceType | cuneiform inscriptions ⓘ |
| successor |
Artatama I
ⓘ
linked to:
Artatama I (disputed)
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| timePeriod | 15th century BCE ⓘ |
| title |
King of Mitanni
ⓘ
linked to:
Šauštatar of Mitanni
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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: Shaushtatar Description of subject: Shaushtatar was a powerful 15th-century BCE king of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, known for expanding its influence across northern Mesopotamia and Syria.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.