Dur-Kurigalzu
E766868
Dur-Kurigalzu was a major Kassite-era royal city in ancient Mesopotamia, notable for its monumental ziggurat and role as a political and religious center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dur-Kurigalzu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8916713 — 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: Dur-Kurigalzu Context triple: [Kassite period, hasImportantCity, Dur-Kurigalzu]
-
A.
Dūr-Šarrukīn
Dūr-Šarrukīn was the Assyrian capital city founded by King Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE, renowned for its monumental palaces and reliefs.
-
B.
Esagila
Esagila was the principal temple complex dedicated to the god Marduk in ancient Babylon, serving as a major religious and ceremonial center of Mesopotamia.
-
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.
-
D.
Zimri-Lim
Zimri-Lim was an early 18th-century BCE Amorite king of Mari in Mesopotamia, known from extensive palace archives that illuminate the politics and society of his time.
-
E.
Shar-Kali-Sharri
Shar-Kali-Sharri was a king of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, known for struggling to maintain imperial unity amid internal conflicts and external pressures following the reign of Naram-Sin.
- 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: Dur-Kurigalzu Target entity description: Dur-Kurigalzu was a major Kassite-era royal city in ancient Mesopotamia, notable for its monumental ziggurat and role as a political and religious center.
-
A.
Dūr-Šarrukīn
Dūr-Šarrukīn was the Assyrian capital city founded by King Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE, renowned for its monumental palaces and reliefs.
-
B.
Esagila
Esagila was the principal temple complex dedicated to the god Marduk in ancient Babylon, serving as a major religious and ceremonial center of Mesopotamia.
-
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.
-
D.
Zimri-Lim
Zimri-Lim was an early 18th-century BCE Amorite king of Mari in Mesopotamia, known from extensive palace archives that illuminate the politics and society of his time.
-
E.
Shar-Kali-Sharri
Shar-Kali-Sharri was a king of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, known for struggling to maintain imperial unity amid internal conflicts and external pressures following the reign of Naram-Sin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Mesopotamian city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| archaeologicalStatus | partially excavated ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Kassite architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtBy | Kurigalzu I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Iraq ⓘ |
| culture | Kassite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | late Kassite period ⓘ |
| dedicatedToDeity | Enlil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | Iraqi archaeologists ⓘ |
| excavatedInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 14th century BCE ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Aqar Quf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBuildingMaterial |
baked brick
ⓘ
mudbrick ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateType | archaeological coordinates recorded ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
administrative buildings
ⓘ
city wall ⓘ gateways ⓘ palace complex ⓘ residential quarters ⓘ |
| hasMonument | Dur-Kurigalzu ziggurat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | ziggurat ⓘ |
| hasTemple |
Ekur temple
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
temple of Enlil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUrbanFunction |
administrative center
ⓘ
royal residence ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | important Mesopotamian heritage site ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Kassite royal inscriptions
ⓘ
monumental ziggurat ⓘ palatial architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Al-Anbar Governorate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ modern Iraq ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Baghdad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialCulture |
Kassite ceramics
ⓘ
administrative texts ⓘ clay tablets ⓘ cuneiform tablets ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kurigalzu I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyModernSettlement | Aqar Quf village NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Babylonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | Kassite period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation | Kassite dynasty of Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| servedAs |
political center
ⓘ
religious center ⓘ royal city ⓘ |
| usedUntilCentury | 12th century BCE ⓘ |
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: Dur-Kurigalzu Description of subject: Dur-Kurigalzu was a major Kassite-era royal city in ancient Mesopotamia, notable for its monumental ziggurat and role as a political and religious center.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.