Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis
E40013
The Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis is a large, finely carved sphinx statue from ancient Egypt, likely dating to the New Kingdom, renowned for its craftsmanship and association with the former capital city of Memphis.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis canonical | 6 |
| Alabaster Sphinx | 1 |
| Alabaster sphinx of Memphis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212536 — 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: Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis Context triple: [Memphis (ancient city), hasNotableMonument, Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis]
-
A.
Great Sphinx of Giza
The Great Sphinx of Giza is an ancient colossal limestone statue with a lion’s body and a human head, regarded as one of Egypt’s most iconic and enigmatic monuments.
-
B.
Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is an ancient Egyptian basalt slab inscribed with a theological and cosmological text from the 25th Dynasty that preserves a Memphite creation myth and early philosophical ideas about the god Ptah.
-
C.
Great Temple of Ptah
The Great Temple of Ptah was the principal sanctuary in ancient Memphis, Egypt, dedicated to the creator god Ptah and serving as a major religious and cultural center of the city.
-
D.
Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur is an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple, built by the Roman emperor Augustus around 15 BCE and now prominently displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
-
E.
Abu Simbel temples
The Abu Simbel temples are monumental rock-cut temples in southern Egypt built by Pharaoh Ramesses II, renowned for their colossal statues and relocation to save them from flooding by the Aswan High Dam.
- 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: Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis Target entity description: The Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis is a large, finely carved sphinx statue from ancient Egypt, likely dating to the New Kingdom, renowned for its craftsmanship and association with the former capital city of Memphis.
-
A.
Great Sphinx of Giza
The Great Sphinx of Giza is an ancient colossal limestone statue with a lion’s body and a human head, regarded as one of Egypt’s most iconic and enigmatic monuments.
-
B.
Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is an ancient Egyptian basalt slab inscribed with a theological and cosmological text from the 25th Dynasty that preserves a Memphite creation myth and early philosophical ideas about the god Ptah.
-
C.
Great Temple of Ptah
The Great Temple of Ptah was the principal sanctuary in ancient Memphis, Egypt, dedicated to the creator god Ptah and serving as a major religious and cultural center of the city.
-
D.
Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur is an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple, built by the Roman emperor Augustus around 15 BCE and now prominently displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
-
E.
Abu Simbel temples
The Abu Simbel temples are monumental rock-cut temples in southern Egypt built by Pharaoh Ramesses II, renowned for their colossal statues and relocation to save them from flooding by the Aswan High Dam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Egyptian monument
ⓘ
archaeological artifact ⓘ sphinx statue ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Great Temple of Ptah
ⓘ
surface form:
Ptah temple complex at Memphis
Memphis ⓘ
surface form:
city of Memphis
|
| category |
Egyptian sphinxes
ⓘ
New Kingdom of Egypt sculptures ⓘ stone sculptures in Egypt ⓘ |
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| craftsmanship | highly refined ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Egyptian ⓘ |
| currentUse |
open-air museum exhibit
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ |
| depicts |
human-headed lion
ⓘ
recumbent sphinx ⓘ |
| discoveredAt |
Memphis open-air museum
ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis archaeological site
|
| discoveredBy | Auguste Mariette ⓘ |
| discoveredNear |
Great Temple of Ptah
ⓘ
surface form:
Temple of Ptah ruins
|
| discoveryDate | 19th century ⓘ |
| era | circa 1400 BCE ⓘ |
| feature |
finely carved facial features
ⓘ
human head ⓘ inscriptions on base ⓘ lion body ⓘ nemes headdress ⓘ royal uraeus cobra ⓘ |
| function |
guardian statue
ⓘ
royal monument ⓘ |
| guardianOf | temple precincts of Memphis ⓘ |
| hasConservationStatus | exposed to weathering ⓘ |
| height | approximately 4 meters ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of Memphis and its Necropolis UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| length | approximately 8 meters ⓘ |
| likelyDatingTo |
18th Dynasty of Egypt
ⓘ
reign of Amenhotep II ⓘ reign of Hatshepsut ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Memphis, Egypt
ⓘ
Mit Rahina museum area ⓘ
surface form:
Mit Rahina open-air museum
|
| material |
alabaster
ⓘ
calcite ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with ancient capital Memphis
ⓘ
fine workmanship ⓘ use of translucent alabaster ⓘ |
| orientation | lying on its belly ⓘ |
| period | New Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| style | New Kingdom royal style ⓘ |
| weight | approximately 80 tons ⓘ |
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: Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis Description of subject: The Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis is a large, finely carved sphinx statue from ancient Egypt, likely dating to the New Kingdom, renowned for its craftsmanship and association with the former capital city of Memphis.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Memphis (ancient city)
subject surface form:
Memphis (Egypt)
this entity surface form:
Alabaster Sphinx
this entity surface form:
Alabaster sphinx of Memphis