Nur-Adad
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Nur-Adad was an early 2nd-millennium BCE king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa, known from royal inscriptions and building projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nur-Adad canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9255969 — 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: Nur-Adad Context triple: [Larsa, hasNotableRuler, Nur-Adad]
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A.
Shamshi-Adad I
Shamshi-Adad I was an influential Old Assyrian king of Amorite origin who expanded Assyrian power across northern Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE.
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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.
Nabopolassar
Nabopolassar was a Chaldean king who led the revolt against Assyria and became the first ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the late 7th century BCE.
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D.
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.
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E.
Urukagina
Urukagina was a Sumerian ruler of the city-state of Lagash, known for instituting some of the earliest recorded social and legal reforms in history.
- 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: Nur-Adad Target entity description: Nur-Adad was an early 2nd-millennium BCE king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa, known from royal inscriptions and building projects.
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A.
Shamshi-Adad I
Shamshi-Adad I was an influential Old Assyrian king of Amorite origin who expanded Assyrian power across northern Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE.
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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.
Nabopolassar
Nabopolassar was a Chaldean king who led the revolt against Assyria and became the first ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the late 7th century BCE.
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D.
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.
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E.
Urukagina
Urukagina was a Sumerian ruler of the city-state of Lagash, known for instituting some of the earliest recorded social and legal reforms in history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
king ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Inanna
ⓘ
Shamash ⓘ |
| civilization |
Ancient Mesopotamia
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamia
|
| country | Larsa ⓘ |
| culture | Mesopotamian ⓘ |
| era |
Old Babylonian period
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Babylonian Empire
|
| evidence |
archaeological remains in Larsa
ⓘ
building inscriptions ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| floruit | early 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| geographicContext |
ancient Near East
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Near East
|
| hasTitle |
king of Larsa
ⓘ
ruler of Larsa ⓘ |
| knownFor |
building projects
ⓘ
royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| languageOfInscriptions | Akkadian ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | early 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| occupation | king of Larsa ⓘ |
| politicalEntityRuled | city-state of Larsa ⓘ |
| positionHeld | ruler of Larsa ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
southern Mesopotamia
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Mesopotamia
|
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| royalTitleLanguage | Akkadian ⓘ |
| sourceType |
foundation inscription
ⓘ
royal building inscription ⓘ |
| typeOfMonumentBuilt |
canal or waterworks
ⓘ
city wall ⓘ temple ⓘ |
| writingSystemUsedInInscriptions | 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: Nur-Adad Description of subject: Nur-Adad was an early 2nd-millennium BCE king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa, known from royal inscriptions and building projects.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.