Obelisk of Luxor
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The Obelisk of Luxor is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk from the Luxor Temple, now standing prominently at the center of Paris’s Place de la Concorde.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Luxor Obelisk | 4 |
| Obelisk of Luxor canonical | 2 |
| Luxor temple statues | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T906325 — 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: Obelisk of Luxor Context triple: [Axe historique of Paris, containsMonument, Obelisk of Luxor]
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A.
The Obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle)
The Obelisk, commonly known as Cleopatra's Needle, is an ancient Egyptian granite monument originally erected in Heliopolis and later transported to New York City, where it now stands as a historic landmark.
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B.
Colossi of Memnon
The Colossi of Memnon are two massive 14th-century BCE stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III that once guarded his mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile near Luxor, Egypt.
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C.
Great Sphinx of Giza
The Great Sphinx of Giza is an ancient colossal limestone statue with a lion’s body and a human head, regarded as one of Egypt’s most iconic and enigmatic monuments.
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D.
Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis
The Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis is a large, finely carved sphinx statue from ancient Egypt, likely dating to the New Kingdom, renowned for its craftsmanship and association with the former capital city of Memphis.
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E.
Pyramid of Khafre
The Pyramid of Khafre is the second-largest of the Giza pyramids, built as the tomb of the Pharaoh Khafre and notable for its relatively well-preserved casing stones and association with the Great Sphinx.
- 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: Obelisk of Luxor Target entity description: The Obelisk of Luxor is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk from the Luxor Temple, now standing prominently at the center of Paris’s Place de la Concorde.
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A.
The Obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle)
The Obelisk, commonly known as Cleopatra's Needle, is an ancient Egyptian granite monument originally erected in Heliopolis and later transported to New York City, where it now stands as a historic landmark.
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B.
Colossi of Memnon
The Colossi of Memnon are two massive 14th-century BCE stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III that once guarded his mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile near Luxor, Egypt.
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C.
Great Sphinx of Giza
The Great Sphinx of Giza is an ancient colossal limestone statue with a lion’s body and a human head, regarded as one of Egypt’s most iconic and enigmatic monuments.
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D.
Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis
The Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis is a large, finely carved sphinx statue from ancient Egypt, likely dating to the New Kingdom, renowned for its craftsmanship and association with the former capital city of Memphis.
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E.
Pyramid of Khafre
The Pyramid of Khafre is the second-largest of the Giza pyramids, built as the tomb of the Pharaoh Khafre and notable for its relatively well-preserved casing stones and association with the Great Sphinx.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Obelisk of Luxor Description of subject: The Obelisk of Luxor is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk from the Luxor Temple, now standing prominently at the center of Paris’s Place de la Concorde.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Obelisk of Luxor
subject linked to:
specially built ship Louxor
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subject linked to:
statue of Louis XVI (on the square)
linked to: Obelisk of Luxor
subject linked to:
statue of Louis XVI (on the square)
linked to: Obelisk of Luxor
linked to: Obelisk of Luxor