Djet
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Djet was an early First Dynasty pharaoh of ancient Egypt, known from royal tombs at Abydos and inscriptions bearing his Horus-name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Djet canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6687515 — 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: Djet Context triple: [Royal tombs at Abydos, associatedWithRuler, Djet]
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A.
Senenmut
Senenmut was a prominent ancient Egyptian official and architect of the 18th Dynasty, best known for his close association with Pharaoh Hatshepsut and for designing some of her most famous monuments.
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B.
Setnakhte
Setnakhte was the founding pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Twentieth Dynasty, known for restoring stability after the turbulent late Nineteenth Dynasty.
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C.
Peribsen
Peribsen was an early Egyptian pharaoh of the Second Dynasty notable for replacing the traditional Horus name with that of the god Seth, reflecting a significant religious and political shift.
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D.
Wahibre
Wahibre was the throne name of Psamtik I, a 26th Dynasty pharaoh who reunified Egypt and initiated the Late Period’s political and cultural revival.
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E.
Wahibre
Wahibre, better known by his Greek name Apries, was a pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty who ruled in the early 6th century BCE and is noted for his foreign campaigns and eventual overthrow.
- 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: Djet Target entity description: Djet was an early First Dynasty pharaoh of ancient Egypt, known from royal tombs at Abydos and inscriptions bearing his Horus-name.
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A.
Senenmut
Senenmut was a prominent ancient Egyptian official and architect of the 18th Dynasty, best known for his close association with Pharaoh Hatshepsut and for designing some of her most famous monuments.
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B.
Setnakhte
Setnakhte was the founding pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Twentieth Dynasty, known for restoring stability after the turbulent late Nineteenth Dynasty.
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C.
Peribsen
Peribsen was an early Egyptian pharaoh of the Second Dynasty notable for replacing the traditional Horus name with that of the god Seth, reflecting a significant religious and political shift.
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D.
Wahibre
Wahibre was the throne name of Psamtik I, a 26th Dynasty pharaoh who reunified Egypt and initiated the Late Period’s political and cultural revival.
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E.
Wahibre
Wahibre, better known by his Greek name Apries, was a pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty who ruled in the early 6th century BCE and is noted for his foreign campaigns and eventual overthrow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Dynasty ruler
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ancient Egyptian pharaoh ⓘ |
| associatedSite | Abydos royal cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Merneith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attestedBy |
ivory labels
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rock inscriptions in the Sinai ⓘ seal impressions ⓘ stone vessels ⓘ tomb inscriptions at Abydos ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Abydos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialRegion | Umm el-Qaab necropolis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialSite | Tomb Z at Umm el-Qaab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Thinis (traditional attribution) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cultCenter | Abydos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Egyptian ⓘ |
| father | Djer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTransliteration |
Uadji
NERFINISHED
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Wadj NERFINISHED ⓘ Zet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArtifact |
funerary stela with Horus-name Djet
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inscribed stone vessels from his tomb ⓘ sealings naming officials of his reign ⓘ |
| hasDepiction | Horus falcon standing on a serpent on his stela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHorusName | Djet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoyalSymbol | Horus falcon atop a serpent hieroglyph ⓘ |
| hasRoyalTitle |
Horus-king
NERFINISHED
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King of Upper and Lower Egypt ⓘ |
| kingListAttestation |
Abydos King List
NERFINISHED
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Royal Canon of Turin (fragmentary) NERFINISHED ⓘ Saqqara King List NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early development of royal titulary
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inscriptions bearing his Horus-name ⓘ one of the earliest securely attested royal tombs at Abydos ⓘ |
| languageOfInscriptions | Early Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ |
| mother | Herneith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Djer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Djer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realm | Kingdom of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEstimatedEnd | c. 2970 BCE ⓘ |
| reignEstimatedStart | c. 2980 BCE ⓘ |
| reignInDynasty | First Dynasty of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignInPeriod | Early Dynastic Period of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignLength | approximately 10 years (traditional scholarly estimate) ⓘ |
| royalHouse | Thinite line of the First Dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Merneith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Den NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Den NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Djet Description of subject: Djet was an early First Dynasty pharaoh of ancient Egypt, known from royal tombs at Abydos and inscriptions bearing his Horus-name.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Royal tombs at Abydos