king Saustatar
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King Saustatar was a powerful 15th-century BCE ruler of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, under whom the state reached its greatest territorial and political influence in the ancient Near East.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| king Saustatar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8266023 — 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: king Saustatar Context triple: [Mitanni, peakPowerUnder, king Saustatar]
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A.
King Tal
King Tal is a character in the fantasy film "Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus," depicted as a royal figure within the movie’s sword-and-sorcery world.
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B.
King Sanna
King Sanna was an early Javanese ruler known from ancient inscriptions as a predecessor in the lineage that led to the rise of the Mataram Kingdom in Central Java.
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C.
King Agaja
King Agaja was an 18th-century ruler of the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, known for expanding its territory, centralizing power, and intensifying its role in the Atlantic slave trade.
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D.
King Abrazza
King Abrazza is a fictional monarch appearing as a character in the novel "Mardi" by Herman Melville.
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E.
King Teuthras
King Teuthras is a figure in Greek mythology, a ruler of Mysia known for sheltering and rearing the hero Telephus.
- 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: king Saustatar Target entity description: King Saustatar was a powerful 15th-century BCE ruler of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, under whom the state reached its greatest territorial and political influence in the ancient Near East.
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A.
King Tal
King Tal is a character in the fantasy film "Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus," depicted as a royal figure within the movie’s sword-and-sorcery world.
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B.
King Sanna
King Sanna was an early Javanese ruler known from ancient inscriptions as a predecessor in the lineage that led to the rise of the Mataram Kingdom in Central Java.
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C.
King Agaja
King Agaja was an 18th-century ruler of the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, known for expanding its territory, centralizing power, and intensifying its role in the Atlantic slave trade.
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D.
King Abrazza
King Abrazza is a fictional monarch appearing as a character in the novel "Mardi" by Herman Melville.
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E.
King Teuthras
King Teuthras is a figure in Greek mythology, a ruler of Mysia known for sheltering and rearing the hero Telephus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hurrian ruler
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Mitanni king ⓘ ancient Near Eastern monarch ⓘ |
| approximateReignEnd | late 15th century BCE ⓘ |
| approximateReignStart | mid-15th century BCE ⓘ |
| capital | Washukanni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Amenhotep II
NERFINISHED
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Thutmose III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Mitanni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diplomaticRelationsWith |
Assyria
NERFINISHED
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Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ Hatti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Late Bronze Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Hurrian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Parshatatar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 15th century BCE ⓘ |
| knownFor |
expansion of Mitanni power
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making Mitanni a great power in the ancient Near East ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt | Hurrian ⓘ |
| notableEvent | height of Mitanni territorial expansion ⓘ |
| politicalRole | hegemon over parts of northern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| politicalStatusOfRealm | great power in the ancient Near East ⓘ |
| predecessor | Parshatatar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Upper Mesopotamia
NERFINISHED
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northern Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ southeastern Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignPeriod | 15th century BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Hurrian religion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| royalHouse | Mitanni dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceOfEvidence |
Assyrian inscriptions
NERFINISHED
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Nuzi texts NERFINISHED ⓘ cuneiform tablets ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
Aleppo
NERFINISHED
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Assyria NERFINISHED ⓘ Kizzuwatna NERFINISHED ⓘ Nuzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Artatama I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | King of Mitanni 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: king Saustatar Description of subject: King Saustatar was a powerful 15th-century BCE ruler of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, under whom the state reached its greatest territorial and political influence in the ancient Near East.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.