Gudea
E212539
Gudea was a prominent ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, renowned for his piety, extensive building projects, and numerous inscribed statues.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gudea canonical | 14 |
| Gudea of Lagash | 13 |
| Gudea cylinders | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1900889 — 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: Gudea Context triple: [Sumer, hasFamousRuler, Gudea]
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A.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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B.
Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal was a powerful 7th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king best known for his extensive military campaigns and for creating one of the earliest great libraries at Nineveh.
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C.
Ur of the Chaldeans
Ur of the Chaldeans is an ancient Mesopotamian city traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham.
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D.
Labashi-Marduk
Labashi-Marduk was a short-reigning Neo-Babylonian king, likely the son of Neriglissar, who was overthrown in a conspiracy soon after ascending the throne in the 6th century BCE.
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E.
Eshmun
Eshmun is a Phoenician god primarily associated with healing and medicine, often linked to later Greco-Roman healing deities.
- 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: Gudea Target entity description: Gudea was a prominent ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, renowned for his piety, extensive building projects, and numerous inscribed statues.
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A.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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B.
Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal was a powerful 7th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king best known for his extensive military campaigns and for creating one of the earliest great libraries at Nineveh.
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C.
Ur of the Chaldeans
Ur of the Chaldeans is an ancient Mesopotamian city traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham.
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D.
Labashi-Marduk
Labashi-Marduk was a short-reigning Neo-Babylonian king, likely the son of Neriglissar, who was overthrown in a conspiracy soon after ascending the throne in the 6th century BCE.
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E.
Eshmun
Eshmun is a Phoenician god primarily associated with healing and medicine, often linked to later Greco-Roman healing deities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sumerian person
ⓘ
ensi ⓘ historical figure ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| approximateReignEnd | circa 2124 BCE ⓘ |
| approximateReignStart | circa 2144 BCE ⓘ |
| artStyle | Neo-Sumerian sculpture ⓘ |
| associatedWith | city of Girsu ⓘ |
| commissioned |
canals in Lagash territory
ⓘ
city walls of Lagash ⓘ temple of Bau ⓘ temple of Ningirsu at Girsu ⓘ |
| country | Lagash ⓘ |
| culture | Sumerian ⓘ |
| depictedAs | seated figure in diorite statues ⓘ |
| era |
Neo-Sumerian period
ⓘ
linked to:
Third Dynasty of Ur period
|
| follows | Ur-Baba ⓘ |
| governedFrom |
Girsu
ⓘ
linked to:
city of Girsu
|
| hasChild |
Ningishzida-adda
ⓘ
Ur-Ningirsu II ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Ninalla ⓘ |
| hasWork |
Cylinder A of Gudea
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Cylinder B of Gudea ⓘ statues of Gudea ⓘ |
| inscriptionsLanguage | Sumerian cuneiform ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Gudea cylinders
ⓘ
linked to:
Gudea
dedicatory inscriptions ⓘ extensive building projects ⓘ numerous inscribed statues ⓘ piety ⓘ temple construction ⓘ |
| language |
Sumerian
ⓘ
linked to:
Sumerian language
|
| legacy |
major source for Sumerian religion and cultic practice
ⓘ
one of the best-attested rulers of ancient Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lagash
ⓘ
Sumer ⓘ |
| materialUsedForStatues | diorite ⓘ |
| policy |
emphasis on temple economy
ⓘ
peaceful rule ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
ensi of Lagash
ⓘ
ruler of Lagash ⓘ |
| reignedIn |
Lagash II dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Lagash
|
| religion | Sumerian religion ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| worshippedDeity |
Gatumdug
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Nanshe ⓘ Ningirsu ⓘ
linked to:
Ninurta
Ningishzida ⓘ |
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: Gudea Description of subject: Gudea was a prominent ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, renowned for his piety, extensive building projects, and numerous inscribed statues.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gudea
linked to: Gudea
subject linked to:
temple of Ningirsu at Girsu
subject linked to:
temple of Ningirsu at Girsu
subject linked to:
temple of Bau
linked to: Gudea
subject linked to:
temple of Bau
linked to: Gudea
linked to: Gudea
linked to: Gudea
linked to: Gudea
linked to: Gudea
linked to: Gudea