Shamash-shum-ukin
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Shamash-shum-ukin was a 7th-century BCE Babylonian king, son of the Assyrian ruler Esarhaddon, best known for his ill-fated rebellion against his brother Ashurbanipal of Assyria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shamash-shum-ukin canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8726682 — 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: Shamash-shum-ukin Context triple: [Esarhaddon, child, Shamash-shum-ukin]
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A.
Samsu-iluna
Samsu-iluna was a king of Babylon in the 18th century BCE, known for inheriting and struggling to maintain the vast empire established by his father Hammurabi.
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B.
Sin-leqi-unninni
Sin-leqi-unninni was a Babylonian scholar and scribe traditionally credited with compiling and editing the standard Akkadian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in the late second millennium BCE.
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C.
Nergal-šarra-uṣur
Nergal-šarra-uṣur, better known by the Hellenized form Neriglissar, was a 6th-century BCE king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire who seized the throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son and ruled for a brief period marked by building projects and regional campaigns.
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D.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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E.
Mani-Utenam
Mani-Utenam is an Innu First Nations reserve community located near Sept-Îles in Quebec, Canada.
- 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: Shamash-shum-ukin Target entity description: Shamash-shum-ukin was a 7th-century BCE Babylonian king, son of the Assyrian ruler Esarhaddon, best known for his ill-fated rebellion against his brother Ashurbanipal of Assyria.
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A.
Samsu-iluna
Samsu-iluna was a king of Babylon in the 18th century BCE, known for inheriting and struggling to maintain the vast empire established by his father Hammurabi.
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B.
Sin-leqi-unninni
Sin-leqi-unninni was a Babylonian scholar and scribe traditionally credited with compiling and editing the standard Akkadian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in the late second millennium BCE.
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C.
Nergal-šarra-uṣur
Nergal-šarra-uṣur, better known by the Hellenized form Neriglissar, was a 6th-century BCE king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire who seized the throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son and ruled for a brief period marked by building projects and regional campaigns.
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D.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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E.
Mani-Utenam
Mani-Utenam is an Innu First Nations reserve community located near Sept-Îles in Quebec, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Babylonian king
ⓘ
human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| alliedWith |
Arab tribes
ⓘ
Arameans ⓘ Chaldeans ⓘ Elam ⓘ Guti ⓘ Tyre ⓘ Urartu ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Urartu
|
| appointedBy | Esarhaddon ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Shamash ⓘ |
| capital | Babylon ⓘ |
| conflict | Babylonian revolt against Assyria ⓘ |
| country |
Babylonia
ⓘ
linked to:
Babylon
|
| culture | Babylonian ⓘ |
| deathCause | suicide by self-immolation (traditional account) ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Babylon ⓘ |
| era |
Neo-Assyrian period
ⓘ
linked to:
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Neo-Babylonian milieu (prelude) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Assyrian
ⓘ
linked to:
Assyrians
|
| father | Esarhaddon ⓘ |
| floruit | 7th century BCE ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| house | Sargonid dynasty ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being brother of Ashurbanipal
ⓘ
joint succession arrangement with Ashurbanipal ⓘ leading major Babylonian revolt against Assyria ⓘ |
| mother | Esharra-hammat ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | "Shamash has established a name" (approximate) ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Akkadian ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Rebellion against Ashurbanipal ⓘ |
| opponent | Ashurbanipal ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sargonid dynasty of Assyria
ⓘ
linked to:
Sargonid dynasty
|
| positionHeld | King of Babylon ⓘ |
| predecessor | Esarhaddon ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 648 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | 669 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| sibling |
Ashur-etil-ilani
ⓘ
Ashurbanipal ⓘ Serua-eterat ⓘ Sin-shar-ishkun ⓘ |
| sourceMention |
Assyrian royal inscriptions
ⓘ
Babylonian chronicles ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Ashurbanipal ⓘ |
| successor | Kandalanu ⓘ |
| title |
šar Bābili (King of Babylon)
ⓘ
linked to:
King of Babylon
|
| vassalOf | Neo-Assyrian Empire ⓘ |
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: Shamash-shum-ukin Description of subject: Shamash-shum-ukin was a 7th-century BCE Babylonian king, son of the Assyrian ruler Esarhaddon, best known for his ill-fated rebellion against his brother Ashurbanipal of Assyria.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.