Shalmaneser III
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Shalmaneser III was a powerful 9th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his extensive military campaigns, monumental building projects, and detailed royal inscriptions such as the Black Obelisk.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shalmaneser III canonical | 6 |
| Shalmaneser | 1 |
| Shalmaneser IIΙ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1761720 — 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: Shalmaneser III Context triple: [Assyria, notableRuler, Shalmaneser III]
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A.
Shalmaneser V
Shalmaneser V was a Neo-Assyrian king in the late 8th century BCE, best known for his military campaigns in the Levant and the siege of Samaria that led to the fall of the Kingdom of Israel.
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B.
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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C.
Ashurnasirpal II
Ashurnasirpal II was a powerful 9th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his military conquests, administrative reforms, and monumental building projects, including the royal palace at Kalhu (Nimrud).
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D.
Sargon II
Sargon II was a Neo-Assyrian king (reigned 722–705 BCE) known for his military campaigns, including the subjugation of Israel and the expansion and consolidation of the Assyrian Empire.
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E.
Sennacherib
Sennacherib was a powerful Neo-Assyrian king (reigned c. 705–681 BCE) known for his military campaigns in the Levant and Mesopotamia, his destruction of Babylon, and his extensive building projects in Nineveh.
- 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: Shalmaneser III Target entity description: Shalmaneser III was a powerful 9th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his extensive military campaigns, monumental building projects, and detailed royal inscriptions such as the Black Obelisk.
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A.
Shalmaneser V
Shalmaneser V was a Neo-Assyrian king in the late 8th century BCE, best known for his military campaigns in the Levant and the siege of Samaria that led to the fall of the Kingdom of Israel.
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B.
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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C.
Ashurnasirpal II
Ashurnasirpal II was a powerful 9th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his military conquests, administrative reforms, and monumental building projects, including the royal palace at Kalhu (Nimrud).
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D.
Sargon II
Sargon II was a Neo-Assyrian king (reigned 722–705 BCE) known for his military campaigns, including the subjugation of Israel and the expansion and consolidation of the Assyrian Empire.
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E.
Sennacherib
Sennacherib was a powerful Neo-Assyrian king (reigned c. 705–681 BCE) known for his military campaigns in the Levant and Mesopotamia, his destruction of Babylon, and his extensive building projects in Nineveh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Neo-Assyrian king
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Shalmaneser III
ⓘ
surface form:
Shalmaneser IIΙ
|
| built |
fortifications
ⓘ
monumental palace at Kalhu ⓘ temples ⓘ ziggurats ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Assyria
ⓘ
surface form:
Assyria (exact location uncertain)
|
| campaignRegion |
Anatolia
ⓘ
Babylon ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonia
Levant region ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
Syria ⓘ Zagros Mountains ⓘ |
| capital | Kalhu ⓘ |
| century | 9th century BCE ⓘ |
| country | Assyria ⓘ |
| dynasty | Neo-Assyrian Empire ⓘ |
| engagedInBattle | Battle of Qarqar ⓘ |
| father | Ashurnasirpal II ⓘ |
| givenName |
Shalmaneser III
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Shalmaneser
|
| knownFor |
detailed royal inscriptions
ⓘ
extensive military campaigns ⓘ monumental building projects ⓘ the Black Obelisk ⓘ |
| language | Akkadian ⓘ |
| notableInscription |
Kurk Monolith
ⓘ
Marble Slab Inscription ⓘ |
| notableWork | Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III ⓘ |
| opponent |
Ahab of Israel
ⓘ
Ben-hadad of Aram ⓘ
surface form:
Hadadezer of Aram-Damascus
coalition of Levantine kings at Qarqar ⓘ |
| patronOf |
Near Eastern art
ⓘ
surface form:
Assyrian art
royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ashurnasirpal II ⓘ |
| recordedTributeFrom |
Hazael of Aram-Damascus
ⓘ
surface form:
Hazael of Damascus
Jehu ⓘ
surface form:
Jehu of Israel
Sidon ⓘ Tyre ⓘ |
| regnalNumber | III ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 824 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | 859 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| successor | Shamshi-Adad V ⓘ |
| usedTitle |
king of the four quarters of the world
ⓘ
mighty king ⓘ |
| worshippedDeity |
Ashur
ⓘ
Inanna ⓘ
surface form:
Ishtar
Shamash ⓘ |
| writingSystem | cuneiform ⓘ |
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: Shalmaneser III Description of subject: Shalmaneser III was a powerful 9th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his extensive military campaigns, monumental building projects, and detailed royal inscriptions such as the Black Obelisk.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shalmaneser
this entity surface form:
Shalmaneser IIΙ