Shulgi of Ur
E334781
Shulgi of Ur was a powerful king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, renowned for his extensive administrative reforms, monumental building projects, and promotion of Sumerian culture and literature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shulgi | 21 |
| Shulgi of Ur canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3159141 — 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: Shulgi of Ur Context triple: [King of the Four Corners of the World, usedBy, Shulgi of Ur]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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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.
Lugalzagesi
Lugalzagesi was a Sumerian king of Umma and later ruler of a briefly unified Sumer, known for his military conquests and eventual defeat by Sargon of Akkad.
- 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: Shulgi of Ur Target entity description: Shulgi of Ur was a powerful king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, renowned for his extensive administrative reforms, monumental building projects, and promotion of Sumerian culture and literature.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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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.
Lugalzagesi
Lugalzagesi was a Sumerian king of Umma and later ruler of a briefly unified Sumer, known for his military conquests and eventual defeat by Sargon of Akkad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sumerian king
ⓘ
human ⓘ king ⓘ ruler of Ur ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
city of Nippur
ⓘ
city of Ur ⓘ city of Uruk ⓘ |
| chronology | Middle Chronology ⓘ |
| civilization | ancient Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| claimedDivinity | yes ⓘ |
| culture | Sumerian ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Third Dynasty of Ur
ⓘ
linked to:
Third Dynasty of Ur period
|
| era | Ur III period ⓘ |
| father | Ur-Nammu ⓘ |
| governmentType | centralized monarchy ⓘ |
| implemented |
standardized taxation system
ⓘ
state-controlled economy ⓘ state-run redistribution system ⓘ |
| knownFor |
administrative reforms
ⓘ
centralization of state administration ⓘ construction of temples ⓘ construction of ziggurats ⓘ development of a state bureaucracy ⓘ long-distance road network ⓘ military campaigns in the Zagros region ⓘ monumental building projects ⓘ patronage of scribal schools ⓘ promotion of Sumerian culture ⓘ promotion of Sumerian literature ⓘ reorganization of provincial governance ⓘ royal hymns ⓘ royal self-praise inscriptions ⓘ standardization of weights and measures ⓘ |
| language | Sumerian language ⓘ |
| legacy |
flourishing of Sumerian literature
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strengthening of the Ur III state ⓘ |
| name |
Shulgi
ⓘ
linked to:
Shulgi of Ur
|
| patronDeity |
Inanna
ⓘ
Nanna ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ur-Nammu ⓘ |
| reignEnd | circa 2047 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | circa 2094 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| ruledTerritory |
Akkad
ⓘ
Sumer ⓘ Ur ⓘ |
| selfRepresentation | deified king ⓘ |
| spouse | Shulgi-simti ⓘ |
| successor | Amar-Sin ⓘ |
| supported |
copying of Sumerian literary texts
ⓘ
scribal education ⓘ |
| title |
King of Sumer and Akkad
ⓘ
King of Ur ⓘ
linked to:
Ur-Nammu
|
| 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: Shulgi of Ur Description of subject: Shulgi of Ur was a powerful king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, renowned for his extensive administrative reforms, monumental building projects, and promotion of Sumerian culture and literature.
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