Shoshenq I
E178079
Shoshenq I was a Libyan-origin pharaoh who founded Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty and is often identified with the biblical Shishak who campaigned against the Kingdom of Judah.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shoshenq I canonical | 13 |
| Sheshonk I | 1 |
| Sheshonq I | 1 |
| Shoshenq Meryamun | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1487088 — 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: Shoshenq I Context triple: [Bubastis, notableRulerAssociated, Shoshenq I]
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A.
Pharaoh Shabaka
Pharaoh Shabaka was a Kushite ruler of Egypt’s Twenty-fifth Dynasty, known for promoting religious and cultural revival, including the preservation of ancient theological texts.
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B.
Khasekhemwy
Khasekhemwy was a pharaoh of Egypt’s Second Dynasty known for reuniting a politically divided kingdom and laying foundations for the Old Kingdom’s centralized state.
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C.
Hor-Aha
Hor-Aha was an early dynastic Egyptian pharaoh, traditionally regarded as one of the first rulers of a unified Egypt and a founder of the First Dynasty.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Shoshenq I Target entity description: Shoshenq I was a Libyan-origin pharaoh who founded Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty and is often identified with the biblical Shishak who campaigned against the Kingdom of Judah.
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A.
Pharaoh Shabaka
Pharaoh Shabaka was a Kushite ruler of Egypt’s Twenty-fifth Dynasty, known for promoting religious and cultural revival, including the preservation of ancient theological texts.
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B.
Khasekhemwy
Khasekhemwy was a pharaoh of Egypt’s Second Dynasty known for reuniting a politically divided kingdom and laying foundations for the Old Kingdom’s centralized state.
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C.
Hor-Aha
Hor-Aha was an early dynastic Egyptian pharaoh, traditionally regarded as one of the first rulers of a unified Egypt and a founder of the First Dynasty.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Shoshenq I Description of subject: Shoshenq I was a Libyan-origin pharaoh who founded Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty and is often identified with the biblical Shishak who campaigned against the Kingdom of Judah.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sheshonq I
this entity surface form:
Sheshonk I
this entity surface form:
Shoshenq Meryamun