Necho II
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Necho II was a late 7th–early 6th century BCE pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, best known for his military campaigns against the Babylonians and his ambitious canal and naval projects.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Necho II canonical | 18 |
| Pharaoh Necho II | 5 |
| Necho II of Egypt | 2 |
| Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt | 2 |
| Necho | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1276206 — 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: Necho II Context triple: [Sais, notableRulerAssociated, Necho II]
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A.
Psamtik I
Psamtik I was a 7th-century BCE pharaoh who reunified Egypt and founded the Saite (26th) Dynasty, ushering in a period of political stability and cultural revival.
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B.
Cambyses II
Cambyses II was a king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, best known for succeeding Cyrus the Great and conquering Egypt in the 6th century BCE.
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C.
Sahure
Sahure was a pharaoh of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty, best known for his pyramid complex at Abusir and for overseeing a period of prosperous trade and artistic development in the Old Kingdom.
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D.
Cambyses I
Cambyses I was a 6th-century BCE king of Anshan and an early Achaemenid ruler best known as the father of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire.
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E.
Pi-Ramesses
Pi-Ramesses was a major royal city in the Nile Delta that served as the principal residence and power center of Ramesses II during Egypt’s New Kingdom.
- 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: Necho II Target entity description: Necho II was a late 7th–early 6th century BCE pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, best known for his military campaigns against the Babylonians and his ambitious canal and naval projects.
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A.
Psamtik I
Psamtik I was a 7th-century BCE pharaoh who reunified Egypt and founded the Saite (26th) Dynasty, ushering in a period of political stability and cultural revival.
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B.
Cambyses II
Cambyses II was a king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, best known for succeeding Cyrus the Great and conquering Egypt in the 6th century BCE.
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C.
Sahure
Sahure was a pharaoh of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty, best known for his pyramid complex at Abusir and for overseeing a period of prosperous trade and artistic development in the Old Kingdom.
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D.
Cambyses I
Cambyses I was a 6th-century BCE king of Anshan and an early Achaemenid ruler best known as the father of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire.
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E.
Pi-Ramesses
Pi-Ramesses was a major royal city in the Nile Delta that served as the principal residence and power center of Ramesses II during Egypt’s New Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Egyptian pharaoh
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human ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Carchemish
ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Carchemish (605 BCE)
Battle of Megiddo ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Megiddo (609 BCE)
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| canalProject |
Suez Canal
ⓘ
surface form:
Nile–Red Sea canal
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| capital | Sais ⓘ |
| captured |
Jehoahaz
ⓘ
surface form:
Jehoahaz of Judah
|
| conflict |
Josiah
ⓘ
surface form:
King Josiah of Judah
Nabopolassar ⓘ
surface form:
King Nabopolassar of Babylonia
Nebuchadnezzar II ⓘ
surface form:
King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia
Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Pharaonic Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Egypt
|
| era |
Late Period of Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Late Period of ancient Egypt
|
| father | Psamtik I ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 6th century BCE
ⓘ
late 7th century BCE ⓘ |
| givenName |
Necho II
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Necho
|
| installedRuler |
Jehoiakim
ⓘ
surface form:
Jehoiakim of Judah
|
| knownFor |
Phoenician circumnavigation of Africa (as reported by Herodotus)
ⓘ
attempted canal between the Nile and the Red Sea ⓘ Battle of Megiddo ⓘ
surface form:
battle of Megiddo (609 BCE)
canal construction projects ⓘ expansion of Egyptian influence into the Levant ⓘ military campaigns against Babylonia ⓘ naval projects ⓘ participation in the late phase of the Assyrian–Babylonian conflicts ⓘ promotion of Mediterranean seafaring ⓘ support of Greek mercenaries and sailors ⓘ |
| memberOfDynasty | Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Books of Chronicles
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Chronicles
Books of Kings ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Kings
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
writings of Herodotus ⓘ |
| mother | Mehtenweskhet II ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Ancient Egyptian language ⓘ |
| navalBase |
Mediterranean coast of Egypt
ⓘ
Red Sea ports of Egypt ⓘ |
| outcomeOfBattle | defeated at the Battle of Carchemish (605 BCE) ⓘ |
| patronage |
Greek mercenaries
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Phoenician sailors ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Pharaoh of Egypt ⓘ |
| predecessor | Psamtik I ⓘ |
| reignEnd | -0595 ⓘ |
| reignStart | -0610 ⓘ |
| religion | Ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| ruledIn |
Lower Egypt
ⓘ
Upper Egypt ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| successor | Psamtik II ⓘ |
| usedScript |
Demotic script
ⓘ
Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ |
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: Necho II Description of subject: Necho II was a late 7th–early 6th century BCE pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, best known for his military campaigns against the Babylonians and his ambitious canal and naval projects.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Necho II of Egypt
this entity surface form:
Pharaoh Necho II
this entity surface form:
Pharaoh Necho II
this entity surface form:
Pharaoh Necho II
this entity surface form:
Necho II of Egypt
subject surface form:
Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
subject surface form:
Battle of Megiddo (609 BCE)
subject surface form:
Battle of Megiddo (609 BCE)
this entity surface form:
Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt
this entity surface form:
Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt
this entity surface form:
Pharaoh Necho II
this entity surface form:
Pharaoh Necho II
subject surface form:
Obelisk of Montecitorio