Babylon
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Babylon was an ancient Mesopotamian city-state and imperial capital renowned for its monumental architecture, advanced culture, and central role in Near Eastern history and biblical tradition.
All labels observed (17)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T185392 — 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.
Target entity: Babylon Context triple: [Belshazzar’s Feast, narrativeLocation, Babylon]
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Neo-Babylonian Empire
The Neo-Babylonian Empire was a powerful Mesopotamian state of the 7th–6th centuries BCE, renowned for its conquest of Jerusalem, monumental architecture such as the Ishtar Gate, and the flourishing of Babylon as a major cultural and political center.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is an ancient historical region in the eastern Mediterranean, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, often regarded as the cradle of civilization for its early development of writing, cities, and complex societies.
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Ciudad de los Reyes
Ciudad de los Reyes is the historical name of Lima, the capital and largest city of Peru, founded by the Spanish in the 16th century.
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Damascus
Damascus is the capital and one of the largest cities of Syria, renowned as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a historic cultural and commercial center of the Arab world.
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Babylon Branch
The Babylon Branch is a major commuter rail line of the Long Island Rail Road serving communities along Long Island’s South Shore.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Babylon Target entity description: Babylon was an ancient Mesopotamian city-state and imperial capital renowned for its monumental architecture, advanced culture, and central role in Near Eastern history and biblical tradition.
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A.
Neo-Babylonian Empire
The Neo-Babylonian Empire was a powerful Mesopotamian state of the 7th–6th centuries BCE, renowned for its conquest of Jerusalem, monumental architecture such as the Ishtar Gate, and the flourishing of Babylon as a major cultural and political center.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is an ancient historical region in the eastern Mediterranean, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, often regarded as the cradle of civilization for its early development of writing, cities, and complex societies.
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C.
Ciudad de los Reyes
Ciudad de los Reyes is the historical name of Lima, the capital and largest city of Peru, founded by the Spanish in the 16th century.
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Damascus
Damascus is the capital and one of the largest cities of Syria, renowned as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a historic cultural and commercial center of the Arab world.
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Babylon Branch
The Babylon Branch is a major commuter rail line of the Long Island Rail Road serving communities along Long Island’s South Shore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
city-state ⓘ former capital ⓘ |
| archaeologicalExcavationBy | Robert Koldewey ⓘ |
| associatedWithMyth |
Etemenanki ziggurat
ⓘ
surface form:
Tower of Babel
|
| associatedWithRuler |
Hammurabi
ⓘ
Nabonidus ⓘ Nabopolassar ⓘ Nebuchadnezzar II ⓘ |
| capitalOf |
Neo-Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ |
| conqueredBy |
Alexander the Great
ⓘ
Assyria ⓘ
surface form:
Assyrian Empire
Cyrus the Great ⓘ Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Persian Achaemenid Empire
Sennacherib ⓘ |
| culturalRegion |
Babylon
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonia
|
| declinePeriod | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| excavationStartYear | 1899 ⓘ |
| flourishedDuring |
Neo-Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Neo-Babylonian period
reign of Hammurabi ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Amorites ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Akkadian
ⓘ
Sumerian (scholarly use) ⓘ |
| hasTemple | Esagila temple complex ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | cuneiform ⓘ |
| hasZiggurat |
Etemenanki ziggurat
ⓘ
surface form:
Etemenanki
|
| influenced |
Christian eschatology
ⓘ
Jewish thought ⓘ later Mesopotamian culture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ishtar Gate
ⓘ
Processional Way ⓘ advanced legal traditions ⓘ astronomy and astrology ⓘ city walls ⓘ literature ⓘ mathematics ⓘ monumental architecture ⓘ religious temples ⓘ role in biblical tradition ⓘ ziggurats ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mesopotamia
ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ
surface form:
modern-day Iraq
|
| locatedNear |
Euphrates
ⓘ
surface form:
Euphrates River
|
| majorDeity | Marduk ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Daniel
ⓘ
Book of Jeremiah ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| modernSiteNear | Hillah, Iraq ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ancient Mediterranean world
ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Near East
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| symbolIn | apocalyptic literature ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
oppression and exile in Jewish tradition
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pride and hubris in biblical tradition ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus | World Heritage Site ⓘ |
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Subject: Babylon Description of subject: Babylon was an ancient Mesopotamian city-state and imperial capital renowned for its monumental architecture, advanced culture, and central role in Near Eastern history and biblical tradition.
Referenced by (289)
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