Nabu-balatsu-iqbi
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Nabu-balatsu-iqbi was a prominent Babylonian nobleman of the 6th century BCE, best known as the father of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nabu-balatsu-iqbi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3446465 — 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: Nabu-balatsu-iqbi Context triple: [Nabonidus, father, Nabu-balatsu-iqbi]
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A.
Nabu
Nabu is the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and writing, revered as the divine scribe and patron of scribes.
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B.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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C.
Labashi-Marduk
Labashi-Marduk was a short-reigning Neo-Babylonian king, likely the son of Neriglissar, who was overthrown in a conspiracy soon after ascending the throne in the 6th century BCE.
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D.
Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal was a powerful 7th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king best known for his extensive military campaigns and for creating one of the earliest great libraries at Nineveh.
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E.
Ninurta
Ninurta is a Mesopotamian god associated with war, hunting, and agriculture, often depicted as a heroic warrior and champion of the god Enlil.
- 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: Nabu-balatsu-iqbi Target entity description: Nabu-balatsu-iqbi was a prominent Babylonian nobleman of the 6th century BCE, best known as the father of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus.
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A.
Nabu
Nabu is the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and writing, revered as the divine scribe and patron of scribes.
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B.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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C.
Labashi-Marduk
Labashi-Marduk was a short-reigning Neo-Babylonian king, likely the son of Neriglissar, who was overthrown in a conspiracy soon after ascending the throne in the 6th century BCE.
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D.
Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal was a powerful 7th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king best known for his extensive military campaigns and for creating one of the earliest great libraries at Nineveh.
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E.
Ninurta
Ninurta is a Mesopotamian god associated with war, hunting, and agriculture, often depicted as a heroic warrior and champion of the god Enlil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Babylonian nobleman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | royal family of Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ |
| child | Nabonidus ⓘ |
| civilization | Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Babylonia
ⓘ
linked to:
Babylon
|
| culture | Babylonian ⓘ |
| date | 6th century BCE ⓘ |
| era |
Neo-Babylonian period
ⓘ
linked to:
Neo-Babylonian Empire
|
| floruit | 6th century BCE ⓘ |
| historicalContext | late Neo-Babylonian dynasty ⓘ |
| knownFrom | cuneiform inscriptions ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Akkadian ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
god Nabu
ⓘ
linked to:
Nabu
|
| nameLanguage | Akkadian ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of King Nabonidus ⓘ |
| positionHeld | nobleman of Babylonia ⓘ |
| region | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| relative | Nabonidus ⓘ |
| religion | Babylonian religion ⓘ |
| residence | Babylon ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | Babylonian nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Late Iron Age ⓘ |
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: Nabu-balatsu-iqbi Description of subject: Nabu-balatsu-iqbi was a prominent Babylonian nobleman of the 6th century BCE, best known as the father of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.