KV35
E379165
KV35 is the rock-cut tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings that served as the burial place of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep II and later housed a cache of royal mummies.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KV35 canonical | 2 |
| KV35 (tomb of Amenhotep II) | 2 |
| KV35 cache | 1 |
| KV35 cache (Theban royal mummy cache) | 1 |
| Tomb KV35 | 1 |
| Unknown Boy (KV35DB) | 1 |
| Unknown Woman (KV35YL) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3663470 — 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: KV35 Context triple: [Amenhotep II, tomb, KV35]
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A.
KV34
KV34 is the rock-cut tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings built for the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III, notable for its early New Kingdom decoration and unique plan.
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B.
KV43
KV43 is the rock-cut tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings that served as the burial place of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose IV.
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C.
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings is an ancient royal necropolis in Upper Egypt where many pharaohs of the New Kingdom, including Tutankhamun, were buried in elaborately decorated tombs.
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D.
Harkhuf
Harkhuf was an important Old Kingdom Egyptian official and explorer known for his expeditions to Nubia during the Sixth Dynasty.
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E.
Medinet Habu
Medinet Habu is a large mortuary temple complex on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, best known as the memorial temple of Ramesses III and for its well-preserved New Kingdom reliefs and inscriptions.
- 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: KV35 Target entity description: KV35 is the rock-cut tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings that served as the burial place of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep II and later housed a cache of royal mummies.
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A.
KV34
KV34 is the rock-cut tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings built for the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III, notable for its early New Kingdom decoration and unique plan.
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B.
KV43
KV43 is the rock-cut tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings that served as the burial place of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose IV.
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C.
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings is an ancient royal necropolis in Upper Egypt where many pharaohs of the New Kingdom, including Tutankhamun, were buried in elaborately decorated tombs.
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D.
Harkhuf
Harkhuf was an important Old Kingdom Egyptian official and explorer known for his expeditions to Nubia during the Sixth Dynasty.
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E.
Medinet Habu
Medinet Habu is a large mortuary temple complex on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, best known as the memorial temple of Ramesses III and for its well-preserved New Kingdom reliefs and inscriptions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Egyptian tomb
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ rock-cut tomb ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Tomb KV35
ⓘ
linked to:
KV35
Tomb of Amenhotep II ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Egyptian Museum in Cairo
ⓘ
linked to:
Egyptian Museum
royal mummies cache ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Theban Necropolis ⓘ |
| burialOf | Amenhotep II ⓘ |
| containsMummy |
Amenhotep II
ⓘ
Amenhotep III ⓘ Merneptah ⓘ Ramesses IV ⓘ Ramesses V ⓘ Ramesses VI ⓘ Seti II ⓘ Siptah ⓘ The Elder Lady ⓘ The Younger Lady ⓘ Thutmose IV ⓘ Unknown Boy (KV35DB) ⓘ
linked to:
KV35
Unknown Woman (KV35EL) ⓘ Unknown Woman (KV35YL) ⓘ
linked to:
KV35
|
| containsSarcophagusOf | Amenhotep II ⓘ |
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Egypt
ⓘ
linked to:
Pharaonic Egypt
|
| discoveredBy | Victor Loret ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1898 ⓘ |
| era | circa 15th century BCE ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalFeature |
burial chamber
ⓘ
corridor ⓘ side chambers ⓘ |
| hasDecorationStyle | 18th Dynasty tomb decoration ⓘ |
| hasEntranceType | cut into cliff face ⓘ |
| hasOwner | Amenhotep II ⓘ |
| hasSignificance | important source for study of royal mummification practices ⓘ |
| laterFunction | secondary burial cache ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Egypt
ⓘ
Luxor ⓘ Thebes necropolis ⓘ
linked to:
Theban Necropolis
Valley of the Kings ⓘ |
| material | limestone ⓘ |
| originalFunction | royal burial ⓘ |
| partOf |
UNESCO World Heritage Site Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
|
| period | New Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ |
| pharaonicDynasty |
Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
ⓘ
linked to:
18th Dynasty of Egypt
|
| tombNumber | 35 ⓘ |
| usedAs | royal mummy cache ⓘ |
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: KV35 Description of subject: KV35 is the rock-cut tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings that served as the burial place of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep II and later housed a cache of royal mummies.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: KV35