Shuruppak
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Shuruppak was an important ancient Sumerian city in southern Mesopotamia, traditionally associated with early urban development and the Sumerian flood myth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shuruppak canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8916616 — 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: Shuruppak Context triple: [Early Dynastic period, hasImportantCity, Shuruppak]
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A.
Lagash
Lagash was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its early political power, distinctive art, and extensive cuneiform records.
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B.
Harapha
Harapha is a boastful Philistine giant who serves as Samson’s arrogant antagonist in John Milton’s tragic closet drama "Samson Agonistes."
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C.
Borsippa
Borsippa was an important ancient Mesopotamian city near Babylon, known especially for its prominent temple and ziggurat dedicated to the god Nabu.
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D.
Dur-Sharrukin
Dur-Sharrukin was the short-lived but grandiose capital city built by the Assyrian king Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE, notable for its monumental palaces and reliefs.
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E.
Nippur
Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
- 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: Shuruppak Target entity description: Shuruppak was an important ancient Sumerian city in southern Mesopotamia, traditionally associated with early urban development and the Sumerian flood myth.
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A.
Lagash
Lagash was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its early political power, distinctive art, and extensive cuneiform records.
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B.
Harapha
Harapha is a boastful Philistine giant who serves as Samson’s arrogant antagonist in John Milton’s tragic closet drama "Samson Agonistes."
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C.
Borsippa
Borsippa was an important ancient Mesopotamian city near Babylon, known especially for its prominent temple and ziggurat dedicated to the god Nabu.
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D.
Dur-Sharrukin
Dur-Sharrukin was the short-lived but grandiose capital city built by the Assyrian king Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE, notable for its monumental palaces and reliefs.
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E.
Nippur
Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Sumerian city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| archaeologicalLevel | multiple occupation layers ⓘ |
| associatedWithMyth |
Epic of Gilgamesh flood narrative
ⓘ
linked to:
tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh
Sumerian flood myth ⓘ |
| associatedWithText |
Instructions of Shuruppak
ⓘ
Sumerian King List ⓘ |
| culture |
Sumerian civilization
ⓘ
linked to:
Sumer
|
| declinePeriod | late Early Dynastic period ⓘ |
| distanceFromUruk | approximately 120 km southeast ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Ernst Heinrich Zimmern
ⓘ
German Oriental Society ⓘ
linked to:
Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
|
| excavationPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Shuruppag
ⓘ
linked to:
Šuruppak
|
| hasAlternativeTransliteration | Šuruppak ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalEvidenceOf |
administrative tablets
ⓘ
city walls ⓘ domestic architecture ⓘ early writing tablets ⓘ flood deposits ⓘ |
| hasDeity |
Enlil
ⓘ
Nisaba ⓘ Sud ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Sumerian flood myth
ⓘ
early urban development ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Sumerian
ⓘ
linked to:
Sumerian language
|
| locatedIn |
Sumer
ⓘ
southern Mesopotamia ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Mesopotamia
|
| locatedInCountry | Iraq ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Atra-Hasis Epic
ⓘ
Epic of Gilgamesh ⓘ Sumerian literary texts ⓘ |
| modernSiteName | Tell Fara ⓘ |
| partOfRegion | Lower Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| periodOfFlourishing | Early Dynastic period ⓘ |
| periodOfOccupation |
Early Dynastic III period
ⓘ
linked to:
Early Dynastic period
Jemdet Nasr period ⓘ late Uruk period ⓘ
linked to:
Uruk period
|
| politicalStatus | city-state ⓘ |
| religiousRole | cult center of Sud ⓘ |
| situatedOnRiver |
Euphrates River
ⓘ
linked to:
Euphrates
|
| timeOfMajorFloodLayer | early 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| traditionalLastKingBeforeFlood |
Atrahasis
ⓘ
Utnapishtim ⓘ Ziusudra ⓘ |
| urbanFeatures |
large houses
ⓘ
planned streets ⓘ public buildings ⓘ |
| writingSystem | cuneiform ⓘ |
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: Shuruppak Description of subject: Shuruppak was an important ancient Sumerian city in southern Mesopotamia, traditionally associated with early urban development and the Sumerian flood myth.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.