Shu-Sin
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Shu-Sin was a king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, known for his building projects and administrative reforms during the late 21st century BCE.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shu-Sin canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8916666 — 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: Shu-Sin Context triple: [Ur III period, hasMonarch, Shu-Sin]
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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.
Shamash-shum-ukin
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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C.
Enmerkar
Enmerkar is a legendary Sumerian king of Uruk, best known from ancient Mesopotamian epics that depict his rivalries, quests, and early developments in writing and civilization.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Shu-Sin Target entity description: Shu-Sin was a king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, known for his building projects and administrative reforms during the late 21st century BCE.
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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.
Shamash-shum-ukin
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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C.
Enmerkar
Enmerkar is a legendary Sumerian king of Uruk, best known from ancient Mesopotamian epics that depict his rivalries, quests, and early developments in writing and civilization.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sumerian ruler
ⓘ
human ⓘ king ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Shu Sin
ⓘ
Shusin ⓘ Šu-Sîn ⓘ |
| civilization | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| country |
Akkadian Empire (late phase)
ⓘ
linked to:
Akkadian Empire
Sumer ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Third Dynasty of Ur
ⓘ
linked to:
Third Dynasty of Ur period
|
| engagedIn |
canal and irrigation works
ⓘ
city wall construction ⓘ large-scale construction ⓘ temple building ⓘ |
| era | Ur III period ⓘ |
| father |
Shulgi
ⓘ
linked to:
Shulgi of Ur
|
| floruit | late 21st century BCE ⓘ |
| governmentForm | centralized monarchy ⓘ |
| hasEvidence |
cuneiform tablets
ⓘ
royal inscriptions ⓘ year-name lists ⓘ |
| implemented |
administrative centralization
ⓘ
bureaucratic record-keeping reforms ⓘ |
| knownFor |
administrative reforms
ⓘ
building projects ⓘ economic administration ⓘ fortification works ⓘ religious constructions ⓘ royal hymns ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Akkadian
ⓘ
Sumerian ⓘ
linked to:
Sumerian language
|
| name | Shu-Sin ⓘ |
| patronDeity |
Inanna
ⓘ
Nanna ⓘ |
| period | Bronze Age ⓘ |
| placeOfRule |
Ur
ⓘ
southern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
King of Sumer and Akkad
ⓘ
King of Ur ⓘ
linked to:
Ur-Nammu
|
| predecessor | Amar-Sin ⓘ |
| region | Lower Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 2029 BCE ⓘ |
| reignOver |
Akkad
ⓘ
Sumer ⓘ Third Dynasty of Ur ⓘ
linked to:
Third Dynasty of Ur period
Ur III ⓘ
linked to:
Ur III period
|
| reignStart | c. 2037 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| successor | Ibbi-Sin ⓘ |
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: Shu-Sin Description of subject: Shu-Sin was a king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, known for his building projects and administrative reforms during the late 21st century BCE.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.