Bubastite nome
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Bubastite nome was an ancient Egyptian administrative district in the Nile Delta, centered around the city of Bubastis and known for its association with the cat goddess Bastet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bubastite nome canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7364131 — 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: Bubastite nome Context triple: [Tell Basta, wasCapitalOf, Bubastite nome]
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A.
Shebitku
Shebitku was a Kushite king of the 25th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known for consolidating Nubian rule over Egypt and engaging in conflicts with the expanding Assyrian Empire.
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B.
Weneg-Nebty
Weneg-Nebty was an obscure and possibly short-reigning pharaoh of Egypt’s Second Dynasty, known mainly from a few fragmentary inscriptions and debated identifications in early dynastic king lists.
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C.
Seshemetka
Seshemetka was an early ancient Egyptian queen consort of the 1st Dynasty, known primarily as a wife of King Djer.
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D.
Lady of Bubastis
Lady of Bubastis is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, revered as a feline deity of home, fertility, and protection whose principal cult center was the city of Bubastis.
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E.
Swenet
Swenet is the ancient Egyptian city known to the Greeks as Syene, located at modern-day Aswan near Egypt’s southern frontier.
- 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: Bubastite nome Target entity description: Bubastite nome was an ancient Egyptian administrative district in the Nile Delta, centered around the city of Bubastis and known for its association with the cat goddess Bastet.
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A.
Shebitku
Shebitku was a Kushite king of the 25th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known for consolidating Nubian rule over Egypt and engaging in conflicts with the expanding Assyrian Empire.
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B.
Weneg-Nebty
Weneg-Nebty was an obscure and possibly short-reigning pharaoh of Egypt’s Second Dynasty, known mainly from a few fragmentary inscriptions and debated identifications in early dynastic king lists.
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C.
Seshemetka
Seshemetka was an early ancient Egyptian queen consort of the 1st Dynasty, known primarily as a wife of King Djer.
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D.
Lady of Bubastis
Lady of Bubastis is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, revered as a feline deity of home, fertility, and protection whose principal cult center was the city of Bubastis.
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E.
Swenet
Swenet is the ancient Egyptian city known to the Greeks as Syene, located at modern-day Aswan near Egypt’s southern frontier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative district
ⓘ
ancient Egyptian nome ⓘ |
| administrativeRole |
local justice administration
ⓘ
organization of corvée labor ⓘ regional taxation ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Bastet ⓘ |
| centeredOn | Bubastis ⓘ |
| country |
Ancient Egypt
ⓘ
linked to:
Pharaonic Egypt
|
| cultCenterOf | Bastet ⓘ |
| economy |
agriculture
ⓘ
animal husbandry ⓘ religious pilgrimage activities ⓘ |
| governedBy | nomarch ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Bubastis ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cat necropolis
ⓘ
temples of Bastet ⓘ
linked to:
grand temple of Bastet
|
| hasMajorCity | Bubastis ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfSettlement |
rural villages
ⓘ
urban center ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cat cults
ⓘ
worship of Bastet ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Egyptian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lower Egypt
ⓘ
Nile Delta ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Bubastis ⓘ |
| partOf |
Egyptian nome system
ⓘ
linked to:
Upper Egyptian nome system
|
| religion | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| religiousImportance | major cult center of Bastet in the Delta ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Pharaonic Egypt
ⓘ
Third Intermediate Period of Egypt ⓘ |
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: Bubastite nome Description of subject: Bubastite nome was an ancient Egyptian administrative district in the Nile Delta, centered around the city of Bubastis and known for its association with the cat goddess Bastet.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
grand temple of Bastet