Sumu-El
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Sumu-El was an early 2nd-millennium BCE king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa, known for expanding its power and influence in southern Mesopotamia.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9255968 — 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: Sumu-El Context triple: [Larsa, hasNotableRuler, Sumu-El]
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A.
Sumu-la-El
Sumu-la-El was an early Amorite king of Babylon known for consolidating and expanding the city-state into a significant regional power.
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B.
Gilukhepa
Gilukhepa was a Mitannian princess who became a queen consort of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, symbolizing a diplomatic alliance between Egypt and Mitanni during the 18th Dynasty.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Tahmuras
Tahmuras is a legendary king in Iranian mythology, famed in the Shahnameh for subduing demons and advancing civilization during the early mythical dynasties.
- 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: Sumu-El Target entity description: Sumu-El was an early 2nd-millennium BCE king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa, known for expanding its power and influence in southern Mesopotamia.
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A.
Sumu-la-El
Sumu-la-El was an early Amorite king of Babylon known for consolidating and expanding the city-state into a significant regional power.
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B.
Gilukhepa
Gilukhepa was a Mitannian princess who became a queen consort of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, symbolizing a diplomatic alliance between Egypt and Mitanni during the 18th Dynasty.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Tahmuras
Tahmuras is a legendary king in Iranian mythology, famed in the Shahnameh for subduing demons and advancing civilization during the early mythical dynasties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Mesopotamian ruler
ⓘ
human ⓘ king ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Larsa dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Amorite dynasty of Larsa
Mesopotamian city-state politics ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Larsa ⓘ |
| culture | Mesopotamian ⓘ |
| era | Bronze Age ⓘ |
| governmentForm | city-state monarchy ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
king of Larsa
ⓘ
ruler of Larsa ⓘ |
| knownFor |
expansion of Larsa’s power
ⓘ
military campaigns in southern Mesopotamia ⓘ territorial expansion of Larsa ⓘ |
| language | Akkadian ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod |
Old Babylonian period
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Babylonian Empire
early 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| mainPlaceOfActivity |
Larsa
ⓘ
southern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| partOf | dynasty of Larsa ⓘ |
| placeOfRule | Larsa ⓘ |
| positionHeld | king of Larsa ⓘ |
| predecessor | early kings of Larsa ⓘ |
| presentDayLocationOfRealm | Iraq ⓘ |
| region |
southern Mesopotamia
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Mesopotamia
|
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | southern Mesopotamian city-states ⓘ |
| successor | later kings of Larsa ⓘ |
| typeOfMonarch | city-state king ⓘ |
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: Sumu-El Description of subject: Sumu-El was an early 2nd-millennium BCE king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa, known for expanding its power and influence in southern Mesopotamia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sumu-El