Shoshenq III
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Shoshenq III was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period who ruled much of the Nile Delta and continued the Libyan-descended line of the Twenty-second Dynasty.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shoshenq III canonical | 15 |
| Sheshonq III | 1 |
| Shoshenq III Si-Ese | 1 |
| Shoshenq Si-Ese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7451136 — 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: Shoshenq III Context triple: [Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt, hasRuler, Shoshenq III]
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Shoshenq II
Shoshenq II was a little-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty, primarily recognized from his richly furnished royal tomb at Tanis.
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B.
Shoshenq I
Shoshenq I was a Libyan-origin pharaoh who founded Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty and is often identified with the biblical Shishak who campaigned against the Kingdom of Judah.
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Ahmose II
Ahmose II, also known as Amasis II, was a pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty noted for his prosperous reign, extensive building projects, and active diplomatic and commercial relations with Greek city-states.
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D.
Tefnakht
Tefnakht was a Libyan-origin ruler and founder of Egypt’s 24th Dynasty, known for leading a coalition of Delta chiefs against the Nubian king Piye during the Third Intermediate Period.
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E.
Taharqa
Taharqa was a prominent pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th (Kushite) Dynasty, known for his extensive building projects and resistance against Assyrian expansion in the 7th century BCE.
- 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: Shoshenq III Target entity description: Shoshenq III was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period who ruled much of the Nile Delta and continued the Libyan-descended line of the Twenty-second Dynasty.
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A.
Shoshenq II
Shoshenq II was a little-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty, primarily recognized from his richly furnished royal tomb at Tanis.
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B.
Shoshenq I
Shoshenq I was a Libyan-origin pharaoh who founded Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty and is often identified with the biblical Shishak who campaigned against the Kingdom of Judah.
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C.
Ahmose II
Ahmose II, also known as Amasis II, was a pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty noted for his prosperous reign, extensive building projects, and active diplomatic and commercial relations with Greek city-states.
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D.
Tefnakht
Tefnakht was a Libyan-origin ruler and founder of Egypt’s 24th Dynasty, known for leading a coalition of Delta chiefs against the Nubian king Piye during the Third Intermediate Period.
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E.
Taharqa
Taharqa was a prominent pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th (Kushite) Dynasty, known for his extensive building projects and resistance against Assyrian expansion in the 7th century BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Shoshenq III Description of subject: Shoshenq III was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period who ruled much of the Nile Delta and continued the Libyan-descended line of the Twenty-second Dynasty.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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