Larsa
E222443
Larsa was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its political power and temple-centered religious life during the early second millennium BCE.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larsa canonical | 14 |
| Larsa kingdom | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1900868 — 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: Larsa Context triple: [Sumer, hasCityState, Larsa]
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A.
Lagash
Lagash was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its early political power, distinctive art, and extensive cuneiform records.
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B.
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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C.
Samareia
Samareia is the ancient Greek name for Samaria, a historically significant region and city in the central highlands of ancient Israel and the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel.
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D.
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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E.
Madayya
Madayya was a poet who served in the royal court of the Vijayanagara emperor Sri Krishnadevaraya.
- 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: Larsa Target entity description: Larsa was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its political power and temple-centered religious life during the early second millennium BCE.
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A.
Lagash
Lagash was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its early political power, distinctive art, and extensive cuneiform records.
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B.
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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C.
Samareia
Samareia is the ancient Greek name for Samaria, a historically significant region and city in the central highlands of ancient Israel and the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel.
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D.
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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E.
Madayya
Madayya was a poet who served in the royal court of the Vijayanagara emperor Sri Krishnadevaraya.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sumerian city
ⓘ
ancient city-state ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ |
| capitalOf |
Larsa
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Larsa kingdom
|
| chronologyUsedFor | Larsa king list ⓘ |
| conqueredBy |
Hammurabi
ⓘ
surface form:
Hammurabi of Babylon
|
| conqueredInYear | circa 1763 BCE ⓘ |
| flourishedInPeriod |
Isin-Larsa period
ⓘ
Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Old Babylonian period
early second millennium BCE ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalExcavation |
French archaeological missions
ⓘ
Iraqi archaeological missions ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFind |
administrative texts
ⓘ
cuneiform tablets ⓘ legal texts ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ temple architecture remains ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
temple economy ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Akkadian
ⓘ
Sumerian language ⓘ
surface form:
Sumerian
|
| hasMainDeity | Shamash ⓘ |
| hasModernSiteName | Tell as-Senkereh ⓘ |
| hasNotableRuler |
Abisare
ⓘ
Gungunum ⓘ Nur-Adad ⓘ Rim-Sin I ⓘ Sin-iddinam ⓘ Sumu-El ⓘ Warad-Sin ⓘ |
| hasTemple |
Ebabbar
ⓘ
surface form:
E-babbar
temple of Shamash ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extensive cuneiform archives
ⓘ
political power ⓘ temple-centered religious life ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Sumer
ⓘ
Lower Mesopotamia ⓘ
surface form:
southern Mesopotamia
|
| locatedInPresentDay | Iraq ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Euphrates
ⓘ
surface form:
Euphrates River
|
| partOf |
Sumer
ⓘ
surface form:
Sumerian civilization
Ancient Near East ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Near East
|
| politicalStatus |
rival of Babylon
ⓘ
rival of Isin ⓘ |
| religiousRole | major cult center of Shamash ⓘ |
| ruledBy |
Amorite dynasty of Larsa
ⓘ
surface form:
Amorite dynasty
Sumerian kings ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Bronze Age ⓘ |
| usedWritingSystem | 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: Larsa Description of subject: Larsa was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its political power and temple-centered religious life during the early second millennium BCE.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.