Kadašman-Enlil II
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Kadašman-Enlil II was a Kassite king of Babylon in the late second millennium BCE, known from cuneiform sources for his role in the political and diplomatic affairs of Mesopotamia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kadashman-Enlil II | 2 |
| Kadašman-Enlil II canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8916746 — 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: Kadašman-Enlil II Context triple: [Kassite period, hasNotableRuler, Kadašman-Enlil II]
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Kadašman-Enlil I
Kadašman-Enlil I was a Kassite king of Babylon in the 14th century BCE, known for his diplomatic correspondence with Egypt and role in consolidating Kassite rule over Mesopotamia.
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B.
Eannatum
Eannatum was an early Sumerian king of Lagash known for his military conquests and one of the earliest recorded empires in Mesopotamian history.
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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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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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E.
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.
- 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: Kadašman-Enlil II Target entity description: Kadašman-Enlil II was a Kassite king of Babylon in the late second millennium BCE, known from cuneiform sources for his role in the political and diplomatic affairs of Mesopotamia.
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A.
Kadašman-Enlil I
Kadašman-Enlil I was a Kassite king of Babylon in the 14th century BCE, known for his diplomatic correspondence with Egypt and role in consolidating Kassite rule over Mesopotamia.
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B.
Eannatum
Eannatum was an early Sumerian king of Lagash known for his military conquests and one of the earliest recorded empires in Mesopotamian history.
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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.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ancient Mesopotamian ruler
ⓘ
Kassite king ⓘ King of Babylon ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Southern Mesopotamia
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Mesopotamia
|
| associatedDeity | Enlil ⓘ |
| chronologicalContext |
Kassite period of Babylonia
ⓘ
linked to:
Kassite period
Late Bronze Age ⓘ |
| culture |
Kassite
ⓘ
linked to:
Kassites
|
| dynasty |
Kassite dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Kassite period
|
| ethnicGroup | Kassites ⓘ |
| father | Kudur-Enlil ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Middle Babylonian period ⓘ |
| kingNumberWithinDynasty | Later Kassite king ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Administrative texts
ⓘ
Cuneiform tablets ⓘ Economic texts ⓘ Letters ⓘ Royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Akkadian ⓘ |
| nameElement | Enlil ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Akkadian ⓘ |
| nameTransliterationVariant |
Kadashman-Enlil II
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linked to:
Kadašman-Enlil II
Kadašman-Enlil II ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Diplomatic relations in Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | Sovereign monarch ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Babylon ⓘ |
| predecessor | Kudur-Enlil ⓘ |
| region | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| reignedOver |
Babylon
ⓘ
Babylonia ⓘ
linked to:
Babylon
|
| reignEnd | ca. 1255 BCE ⓘ |
| reignIn | Late second millennium BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | ca. 1263 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| role |
Diplomatic actor in Mesopotamia
ⓘ
Political actor in Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| sourceType |
Economic records
ⓘ
Legal documents ⓘ Royal correspondence ⓘ |
| successor | Šagarakti-Šuriaš ⓘ |
| successorDynastically | Šagarakti-Šuriaš ⓘ |
| territorialControl |
Babylonian kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Babylonian Empire
|
| title |
King of Babylon
ⓘ
King of the Kassites ⓘ
linked to:
Burna-Buriash II
|
| writingSystemOfSources | 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: Kadašman-Enlil II Description of subject: Kadašman-Enlil II was a Kassite king of Babylon in the late second millennium BCE, known from cuneiform sources for his role in the political and diplomatic affairs of Mesopotamia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kadašman-Enlil II
linked to: Kadašman-Enlil II