Dur-Sharrukin
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Dur-Sharrukin was the short-lived but grandiose capital city built by the Assyrian king Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE, notable for its monumental palaces and reliefs.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dur-Sharrukin canonical | 31 |
| Dur-Sharrukin (Fortress of Sargon) | 2 |
| Dur Sharrukin | 1 |
| Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad) | 1 |
| Khorsabad | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1761693 — 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: Dur-Sharrukin Context triple: [Assyria, majorCity, Dur-Sharrukin]
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A.
Sippar
Sippar was an important ancient Mesopotamian city, renowned as a religious and administrative center particularly associated with the sun god Shamash.
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B.
Ashur
Ashur is an ancient Mesopotamian city in northern Iraq that served as the first capital and religious center of the Assyrian Empire.
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C.
Nippur
Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
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D.
Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
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E.
Esagila temple complex
The Esagila temple complex was the grand religious center of ancient Babylon dedicated primarily to the god Marduk, serving as a key ceremonial and administrative hub of the city.
- 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: Dur-Sharrukin Target entity description: Dur-Sharrukin was the short-lived but grandiose capital city built by the Assyrian king Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE, notable for its monumental palaces and reliefs.
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A.
Sippar
Sippar was an important ancient Mesopotamian city, renowned as a religious and administrative center particularly associated with the sun god Shamash.
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B.
Ashur
Ashur is an ancient Mesopotamian city in northern Iraq that served as the first capital and religious center of the Assyrian Empire.
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C.
Nippur
Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
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D.
Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
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E.
Esagila temple complex
The Esagila temple complex was the grand religious center of ancient Babylon dedicated primarily to the god Marduk, serving as a key ceremonial and administrative hub of the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Assyrian capital
ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ |
| abandonedAfter | death of Sargon II ⓘ |
| abandonedInCentury | 7th century BCE ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Dur Sharrukin
ⓘ
linked to:
Dur-Sharrukin
Dūr-Šarrukīn ⓘ Fortress of Sargon ⓘ |
| artifactsInCollectionOf |
British Museum
ⓘ
Louvre Museum ⓘ Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago ⓘ
linked to:
Oriental Institute Museum
|
| builder | Sargon II ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Neo-Assyrian Empire ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | circa 706 BCE ⓘ |
| constructionStart | circa 717 BCE ⓘ |
| country | Iraq ⓘ |
| culture | Assyrian ⓘ |
| currentCondition | ruins ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | Paul-Émile Botta ⓘ |
| excavationStart | 1843 ⓘ |
| floruit | late 8th century BCE ⓘ |
| founder | Sargon II ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
city gates with lamassu
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fortified city walls ⓘ monumental palace complex ⓘ orthogonal street plan ⓘ relief-decorated walls ⓘ royal gardens ⓘ temple complexes ⓘ ziggurat ⓘ |
| hasPalace |
Palace of Sargon II
ⓘ
linked to:
royal palace at Dur-Sharrukin
|
| languageOfInscriptions | Akkadian ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Nineveh Governorate ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Assyria
ⓘ
northern Mesopotamia ⓘ
linked to:
Upper Mesopotamia
|
| locatedNear |
Mosul
ⓘ
modern Khorsabad ⓘ
linked to:
Nimrud
|
| namedAfter | Sargon II ⓘ |
| notableFor |
colossal lamassu sculptures
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inscribed wall slabs ⓘ monumental stone reliefs ⓘ planned royal capital layout ⓘ |
| partOf |
Assyrian Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Assyria
|
| purpose |
imperial capital
ⓘ
royal propaganda center ⓘ |
| replacedByCapital | Nineveh ⓘ |
| scriptOfInscriptions | cuneiform ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Neo-Assyrian period
ⓘ
linked to:
Neo-Assyrian Empire
|
| urbanType | royal residence city ⓘ |
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: Dur-Sharrukin Description of subject: Dur-Sharrukin was the short-lived but grandiose capital city built by the Assyrian king Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE, notable for its monumental palaces and reliefs.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dur-Sharrukin
subject linked to:
annals of Sargon II
linked to: Dur-Sharrukin
linked to: Dur-Sharrukin
linked to: Dur-Sharrukin
subject linked to:
Ashur (god)
linked to: Dur-Sharrukin