Ningishzida-adda
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Ningishzida-adda was a child of the Neo-Sumerian ruler Gudea of Lagash, likely a member of the royal family known from Mesopotamian inscriptions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ningishzida-adda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8925986 — 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: Ningishzida-adda Context triple: [Gudea, hasChild, Ningishzida-adda]
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A.
Inshushinak
Inshushinak is an ancient Elamite god associated with the city of Susa, often revered as a chief deity linked to justice, the underworld, and the protection of the state.
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B.
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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C.
Gugalanna
Gugalanna is a Sumerian deity known as the Bull of Heaven, associated with the sky and sent by the gods as a destructive force in Mesopotamian mythology.
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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.
Sin-shar-ishkun
Sin-shar-ishkun was one of the last kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, ruling in the late 7th century BCE during its final period of decline and collapse.
- 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: Ningishzida-adda Target entity description: Ningishzida-adda was a child of the Neo-Sumerian ruler Gudea of Lagash, likely a member of the royal family known from Mesopotamian inscriptions.
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A.
Inshushinak
Inshushinak is an ancient Elamite god associated with the city of Susa, often revered as a chief deity linked to justice, the underworld, and the protection of the state.
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B.
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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C.
Gugalanna
Gugalanna is a Sumerian deity known as the Bull of Heaven, associated with the sky and sent by the gods as a destructive force in Mesopotamian mythology.
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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.
Sin-shar-ishkun
Sin-shar-ishkun was one of the last kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, ruling in the late 7th century BCE during its final period of decline and collapse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
member of the Gudea dynasty ⓘ royal person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | city-state of Lagash ⓘ |
| childOf |
Gudea of Lagash
ⓘ
linked to:
Gudea
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| culture | Sumerian ⓘ |
| floruit | late 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| hasFather |
Gudea of Lagash
ⓘ
linked to:
Gudea
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| knownFrom | Mesopotamian inscriptions ⓘ |
| memberOf |
royal family of Lagash
ⓘ
linked to:
Second Dynasty of Lagash
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| nameContainsTheonym | Ningishzida ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Sumerian ⓘ |
| possibleStatus | prince of Lagash ⓘ |
| region |
southern Mesopotamia
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Mesopotamia
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| relativeOf | Ningirsu-adda (if attested as sibling or relative) ⓘ |
| residence | Lagash ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Neo-Sumerian period
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linked to:
Third Dynasty of Ur period
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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: Ningishzida-adda Description of subject: Ningishzida-adda was a child of the Neo-Sumerian ruler Gudea of Lagash, likely a member of the royal family known from Mesopotamian inscriptions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.