Tell Sultan
E523486
Tell Sultan is an ancient archaeological mound near Jericho in the West Bank, widely regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tell Sultan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5474558 — 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: Tell Sultan Context triple: [Tell es-Sultan, knownAs, Tell Sultan]
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A.
The Sultan
The Sultan is the benevolent yet somewhat naive ruler of Agrabah and Princess Jasmine’s father in Disney’s Aladdin story.
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B.
The Sultan of Swat
The Sultan of Swat is the famous nickname of legendary American baseball slugger Babe Ruth, renowned for his prodigious home run-hitting power.
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C.
The Bastard of Istanbul
The Bastard of Istanbul is a contemporary novel by Turkish-British author Elif Şafak that intertwines the lives of a Turkish and an Armenian-American family while exploring memory, identity, and the legacy of the Armenian genocide.
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D.
The Zahir
The Zahir is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores themes of obsession, love, and spiritual self-discovery through the story of a writer searching for his missing wife.
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E.
Shuja
Shuja is a given name most notably associated with Shuja Shah Durrani, a 19th-century ruler of the Durrani Empire in Afghanistan.
- 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: Tell Sultan Target entity description: Tell Sultan is an ancient archaeological mound near Jericho in the West Bank, widely regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world.
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A.
The Sultan
The Sultan is the benevolent yet somewhat naive ruler of Agrabah and Princess Jasmine’s father in Disney’s Aladdin story.
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B.
The Sultan of Swat
The Sultan of Swat is the famous nickname of legendary American baseball slugger Babe Ruth, renowned for his prodigious home run-hitting power.
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C.
The Bastard of Istanbul
The Bastard of Istanbul is a contemporary novel by Turkish-British author Elif Şafak that intertwines the lives of a Turkish and an Armenian-American family while exploring memory, identity, and the legacy of the Armenian genocide.
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D.
The Zahir
The Zahir is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores themes of obsession, love, and spiritual self-discovery through the story of a writer searching for his missing wife.
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E.
Shuja
Shuja is a given name most notably associated with Shuja Shah Durrani, a 19th-century ruler of the Durrani Empire in Afghanistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient settlement
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archaeological site ⓘ tell (archaeological mound) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
early development of city walls
ⓘ
study of Neolithic societies ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Italian-Palestinian archaeological mission
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John Garstang NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathleen Kenyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ancient Jericho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tell es-Sultan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalPeriod |
Bronze Age
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ Natufian culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Pre-Pottery Neolithic A NERFINISHED ⓘ Pre-Pottery Neolithic B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalStratigraphy | multiple occupation layers ⓘ |
| hasCountry | State of Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEarliestOccupationDate | c. 10,000 BCE ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ancient fortification walls
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archaeological mound ⓘ tower structure ⓘ water system ⓘ |
| hasMaterialRemains |
burials
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mudbrick architecture ⓘ pottery ⓘ stone tools ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Jericho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature | Ein es-Sultan spring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResearchField |
Near Eastern archaeology
NERFINISHED
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biblical archaeology ⓘ prehistoric archaeology ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
evidence for early agriculture
ⓘ
evidence for early permanent settlement ⓘ evidence for early urbanization ⓘ |
| hasUNESCOStatus | World Heritage Tentative List NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isConsidered | one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| locatedBelowSeaLevel | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jericho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ West Bank ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Jordan Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+2 ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Jericho city center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| partOf | archaeological heritage of Jericho ⓘ |
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: Tell Sultan Description of subject: Tell Sultan is an ancient archaeological mound near Jericho in the West Bank, widely regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.