Hammurabi
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Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon, best known for creating one of the earliest and most influential written legal codes in ancient Mesopotamia.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hammurabi canonical | 14 |
| Hammurabi of Babylon | 5 |
| Babylonian king Hammurabi | 1 |
| Hammurabi (as ruler of Larsa) | 1 |
| Hammurabi of Babylon (as conqueror of Mari) | 1 |
| Hammurabi of Babylon (initially) | 1 |
| Hammurabi of Babylon (later adversary) | 1 |
| Hammurapi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1151822 — 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.
Target entity: Hammurabi Context triple: [Babylon, associatedWithRuler, Hammurabi]
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Nebuchadnezzar II
Nebuchadnezzar II was a powerful 6th-century BCE king of Babylon best known for expanding the Neo-Babylonian Empire, conquering Jerusalem, and being associated with the legendary Hanging Gardens.
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B.
Nabopolassar
Nabopolassar was a Chaldean king who led the revolt against Assyria and became the first ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the late 7th century BCE.
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C.
Tiglath-Pileser III
Tiglath-Pileser III was a powerful 8th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his military conquests, administrative reforms, and expansion of the Assyrian Empire across the Near East.
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D.
Narmer
Narmer was an early ancient Egyptian king, often identified with Menes, who is traditionally credited with founding the First Dynasty and initiating the unified Pharaonic state.
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E.
Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great was the 6th-century BCE founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, renowned for his military conquests, enlightened rule, and policies of religious tolerance and repatriation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Hammurabi Target entity description: Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon, best known for creating one of the earliest and most influential written legal codes in ancient Mesopotamia.
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A.
Nebuchadnezzar II
Nebuchadnezzar II was a powerful 6th-century BCE king of Babylon best known for expanding the Neo-Babylonian Empire, conquering Jerusalem, and being associated with the legendary Hanging Gardens.
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B.
Nabopolassar
Nabopolassar was a Chaldean king who led the revolt against Assyria and became the first ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the late 7th century BCE.
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C.
Tiglath-Pileser III
Tiglath-Pileser III was a powerful 8th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his military conquests, administrative reforms, and expansion of the Assyrian Empire across the Near East.
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D.
Narmer
Narmer was an early ancient Egyptian king, often identified with Menes, who is traditionally credited with founding the First Dynasty and initiating the unified Pharaonic state.
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E.
Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great was the 6th-century BCE founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, renowned for his military conquests, enlightened rule, and policies of religious tolerance and repatriation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Babylonian king
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ king ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| approximateBirthCentury | 18th century BCE ⓘ |
| approximateDeathCentury | 18th century BCE ⓘ |
| capital | Babylon ⓘ |
| civilization | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| claimedAuthorityFrom | Shamash ⓘ |
| culture | Babylonian ⓘ |
| depictedWithDeity | Shamash ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Old Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
First Babylonian Dynasty
|
| era |
Old Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Babylonian period
|
| expandedInto |
Old Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Akkad
Assyria ⓘ Larsa ⓘ Mari ⓘ |
| influenced |
later Near Eastern legal traditions
ⓘ
study of ancient law ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Code of Hammurabi
ⓘ
centralization of power in Babylon ⓘ expansion of the Babylonian Empire ⓘ |
| language | Akkadian ⓘ |
| legalCode | Code of Hammurabi ⓘ |
| legalCodeFocus |
civil law
ⓘ
commercial law ⓘ criminal law ⓘ family law ⓘ |
| legalCodeLanguage | Akkadian ⓘ |
| legalCodeMedium | diorite stele ⓘ |
| legalCodeNumberOfLaws | 282 ⓘ |
| legalCodePrinciple |
lex talionis
ⓘ
retributive justice ⓘ |
| legalCodeScript | cuneiform ⓘ |
| majorArtifact | stele of the Code of Hammurabi ⓘ |
| majorArtifactLocation | Louvre Museum ⓘ |
| name | Hammurabi self-link ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
standardization of laws across his empire
ⓘ
unification of much of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Babylon ⓘ |
| predecessor | Sin-Muballit ⓘ |
| region | Ancient Near East ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 1750 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 1792 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| sourceType | cuneiform inscriptions ⓘ |
| successor | Samsu-iluna ⓘ |
| territoryRuled |
Babylon
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surface form:
Babylonia
Lower Mesopotamia ⓘ
surface form:
southern Mesopotamia
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Subject: Hammurabi Description of subject: Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon, best known for creating one of the earliest and most influential written legal codes in ancient Mesopotamia.
Referenced by (25)
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