Ur-Ningirsu II
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Ur-Ningirsu II was a ruler (ensi) of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash during the late 3rd millennium BCE, known from inscriptions and artifacts that document his building projects and religious dedications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ur-Ningirsu II canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8925560 — 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: Ur-Ningirsu II Context triple: [Lagash, hasRuler, Ur-Ningirsu II]
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A.
Kadašman-Enlil II
Kadašman-Enlil II was a Kassite king of Babylon in the late second millennium BCE, known from cuneiform sources for his role in the political and diplomatic affairs of Mesopotamia.
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B.
Urukagina
Urukagina was a Sumerian ruler of the city-state of Lagash, known for instituting some of the earliest recorded social and legal reforms in history.
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C.
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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D.
Ishbi-Erra of Isin
Ishbi-Erra of Isin was an early second-millennium BCE ruler who founded the First Dynasty of Isin and helped restore political stability in southern Mesopotamia after the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur.
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E.
Nergal-šarra-uṣur
Nergal-šarra-uṣur, better known by the Hellenized form Neriglissar, was a 6th-century BCE king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire who seized the throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son and ruled for a brief period marked by building projects and regional campaigns.
- 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: Ur-Ningirsu II Target entity description: Ur-Ningirsu II was a ruler (ensi) of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash during the late 3rd millennium BCE, known from inscriptions and artifacts that document his building projects and religious dedications.
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A.
Kadašman-Enlil II
Kadašman-Enlil II was a Kassite king of Babylon in the late second millennium BCE, known from cuneiform sources for his role in the political and diplomatic affairs of Mesopotamia.
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B.
Urukagina
Urukagina was a Sumerian ruler of the city-state of Lagash, known for instituting some of the earliest recorded social and legal reforms in history.
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C.
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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D.
Ishbi-Erra of Isin
Ishbi-Erra of Isin was an early second-millennium BCE ruler who founded the First Dynasty of Isin and helped restore political stability in southern Mesopotamia after the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur.
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E.
Nergal-šarra-uṣur
Nergal-šarra-uṣur, better known by the Hellenized form Neriglissar, was a 6th-century BCE king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire who seized the throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son and ruled for a brief period marked by building projects and regional campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sumerian ruler
ⓘ
ensi ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mesopotamian temple economy ⓘ |
| chronologicalContext | Bronze Age Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| civilization | Sumer ⓘ |
| country | Lagash ⓘ |
| culture |
Sumerian
ⓘ
linked to:
Sumer
|
| era | Early Dynastic–Ur III transition ⓘ |
| floruit | late 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| governed |
city-state of Lagash
ⓘ
linked to:
Lagash
|
| governmentForm | city-state rulership ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceType |
cuneiform inscription
ⓘ
votive object inscription ⓘ |
| knownFor |
building projects
ⓘ
religious dedications ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
artifacts
ⓘ
inscriptions ⓘ |
| language | Sumerian ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | late 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| madeDedicationsTo | Sumerian deities ⓘ |
| performed |
canal or irrigation works
ⓘ
temple construction ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Lagash ⓘ |
| positionHeld | ensi of Lagash ⓘ |
| region | southern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| religion | Sumerian religion ⓘ |
| title |
ensi
ⓘ
governor ⓘ |
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: Ur-Ningirsu II Description of subject: Ur-Ningirsu II was a ruler (ensi) of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash during the late 3rd millennium BCE, known from inscriptions and artifacts that document his building projects and religious dedications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.