Warad-Sin
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Warad-Sin was a prominent king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa during the early 2nd millennium BCE, known for his building projects and regional military campaigns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Warad-Sin canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9255971 — 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: Warad-Sin Context triple: [Larsa, hasNotableRuler, Warad-Sin]
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A.
Ibbi-Sin
Ibbi-Sin was the last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, under whose troubled reign the Sumerian empire collapsed around the end of the 3rd millennium BCE.
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B.
Amar-Sin
Amar-Sin was a king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, known for his extensive building projects and efforts to consolidate and expand his empire.
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C.
Naram-Sin of Akkad
Naram-Sin of Akkad was a powerful Mesopotamian king of the Akkadian Empire, famed for declaring himself a god and expanding the empire to its greatest territorial extent.
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D.
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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E.
Mesannepada of Ur
Mesannepada of Ur was an early Sumerian king who founded the First Dynasty of Ur and became one of the most prominent rulers of early Mesopotamia.
- 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: Warad-Sin Target entity description: Warad-Sin was a prominent king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa during the early 2nd millennium BCE, known for his building projects and regional military campaigns.
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A.
Ibbi-Sin
Ibbi-Sin was the last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, under whose troubled reign the Sumerian empire collapsed around the end of the 3rd millennium BCE.
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B.
Amar-Sin
Amar-Sin was a king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, known for his extensive building projects and efforts to consolidate and expand his empire.
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C.
Naram-Sin of Akkad
Naram-Sin of Akkad was a powerful Mesopotamian king of the Akkadian Empire, famed for declaring himself a god and expanding the empire to its greatest territorial extent.
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D.
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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E.
Mesannepada of Ur
Mesannepada of Ur was an early Sumerian king who founded the First Dynasty of Ur and became one of the most prominent rulers of early Mesopotamia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Mesopotamian ruler
ⓘ
human ⓘ king ⓘ |
| activity |
fortification of Larsa
ⓘ
maintenance of irrigation systems ⓘ |
| civilization |
Old Babylonian period
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Babylonian Empire
|
| conflict | wars with neighboring city-states ⓘ |
| country | Larsa ⓘ |
| culture | Mesopotamian ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Larsa ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Larsa dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Amorite dynasty of Larsa
|
| era | Isin-Larsa period ⓘ |
| father | Kudur-Mabuk ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| issued |
royal inscriptions
ⓘ
year names ⓘ |
| knownFor |
building projects
ⓘ
canal construction ⓘ city wall construction ⓘ regional military campaigns ⓘ temple restorations ⓘ |
| language | Akkadian ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Larsa ⓘ |
| notableConstruction |
canals near Larsa
ⓘ
city walls of Larsa ⓘ temples in Larsa ⓘ |
| patronDeity |
Inanna
ⓘ
Nanna ⓘ Shamash ⓘ |
| positionHeld | king of Larsa ⓘ |
| predecessor | Kudur-Mabuk ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Sumer
ⓘ
southern Babylonia ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Mesopotamia
|
| reignEnd | ca. 1823 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | ca. 1834 BCE ⓘ |
| religion |
Mesopotamian polytheism
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamian religion
|
| sibling | Rim-Sin I ⓘ |
| sourceOfInformation |
cuneiform tablets
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royal building inscriptions ⓘ year-name lists ⓘ |
| successor | Rim-Sin I ⓘ |
| territorialControl |
southern Mesopotamia
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Mesopotamia
|
| timePeriod | early 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| usedWritingSystem | 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: Warad-Sin Description of subject: Warad-Sin was a prominent king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa during the early 2nd millennium BCE, known for his building projects and regional military campaigns.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.