Teti
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Teti was the founding pharaoh of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty, known for initiating a period of centralized power and extensive pyramid-building at Saqqara.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teti canonical | 16 |
| Pharaoh Teti | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2298925 — 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: Teti Context triple: [Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, hasMonarch, Teti]
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A.
Senusret I
Senusret I was a prominent pharaoh of Egypt’s 12th Dynasty who strengthened central authority, expanded Egypt’s borders, and commissioned major building projects during the Middle Kingdom.
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B.
Mycerinus
Mycerinus is the Greek name for Menkaure, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh best known for building the third and smallest of the three main pyramids at Giza.
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C.
Men-nefer
Men-nefer is the ancient Egyptian name for the city later known as Memphis, a major political and religious center near modern Cairo.
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D.
Pharaoh Shabaka
Pharaoh Shabaka was a Kushite ruler of Egypt’s Twenty-fifth Dynasty, known for promoting religious and cultural revival, including the preservation of ancient theological texts.
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E.
Khamerernebty I
Khamerernebty I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th Dynasty, likely both daughter of Pharaoh Khufu and principal wife of Pharaoh Khafre, and mother of the king Menkaure.
- 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: Teti Target entity description: Teti was the founding pharaoh of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty, known for initiating a period of centralized power and extensive pyramid-building at Saqqara.
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A.
Senusret I
Senusret I was a prominent pharaoh of Egypt’s 12th Dynasty who strengthened central authority, expanded Egypt’s borders, and commissioned major building projects during the Middle Kingdom.
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B.
Mycerinus
Mycerinus is the Greek name for Menkaure, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh best known for building the third and smallest of the three main pyramids at Giza.
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C.
Men-nefer
Men-nefer is the ancient Egyptian name for the city later known as Memphis, a major political and religious center near modern Cairo.
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D.
Pharaoh Shabaka
Pharaoh Shabaka was a Kushite ruler of Egypt’s Twenty-fifth Dynasty, known for promoting religious and cultural revival, including the preservation of ancient theological texts.
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E.
Khamerernebty I
Khamerernebty I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th Dynasty, likely both daughter of Pharaoh Khufu and principal wife of Pharaoh Khafre, and mother of the king Menkaure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Egypt
ⓘ
Sixth Dynasty pharaoh ⓘ ancient Egyptian pharaoh ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Osiris
ⓘ
Ra ⓘ |
| attestedIn |
royal inscriptions
ⓘ
tomb biographies of officials ⓘ |
| burialMonument | Pyramid of Teti ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Saqqara necropolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Saqqara
|
| burialStructureType | pyramid complex ⓘ |
| capital | Memphis ⓘ |
| child |
Nebkauhor
ⓘ
Pepi I Meryre ⓘ Seshseshet ⓘ |
| cultCenter |
Saqqara necropolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Saqqara
|
| deathPlace | Egypt ⓘ |
| dynasty | Sixth Dynasty of Egypt ⓘ |
| era | Old Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Unas ⓘ |
| governmentType | centralized monarchy ⓘ |
| hasPyramidTexts | yes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
centralizing royal power
ⓘ
founding the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt ⓘ pyramid-building at Saqqara ⓘ |
| monumentsAt |
Memphis
ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis region
Saqqara necropolis ⓘ
surface form:
Saqqara
|
| nomen | Teti self-link ⓘ |
| period |
early 23rd century BCE
ⓘ
late 24th century BCE ⓘ |
| praenomen | Seheteptawy ⓘ |
| predecessor | Unas ⓘ |
| pyramidComplexType | step pyramid complex ⓘ |
| pyramidLocation |
Saqqara necropolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Saqqara
|
| pyramidTextsLocation |
Pyramid of Unas
ⓘ
surface form:
Pyramid of Teti burial chamber
|
| regionRuled |
Nile Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Nile Valley in Egypt
|
| reignEnd | c. 2333 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 2345 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| spouse |
Iput I
ⓘ
Khuit ⓘ |
| successor |
Pepi I Meryre
ⓘ
Userkare ⓘ |
| successorContested | Userkare ⓘ |
| throneName | Seheteptawy ⓘ |
| title |
King of Upper and Lower Egypt
ⓘ
Lord of the Two Lands ⓘ Son of Ra ⓘ |
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: Teti Description of subject: Teti was the founding pharaoh of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty, known for initiating a period of centralized power and extensive pyramid-building at Saqqara.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pharaoh Teti