Sewadjkare XLII
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Sewadjkare XLII was a relatively obscure and short-reigning pharaoh of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty during the politically fragmented Second Intermediate Period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sewadjkare XLII canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10326861 — 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: Sewadjkare XLII Context triple: [13th Dynasty of Egypt, hasPharaoh, Sewadjkare XLII]
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A.
Sewadjkare XXXII
Sewadjkare XXXII was a relatively obscure and short-reigning pharaoh of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period.
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B.
Sewadjkare XXII
Sewadjkare XXII was a relatively obscure pharaoh of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty, ruling during the politically fragmented Second Intermediate Period.
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C.
Sewadjkare XXXIV
Sewadjkare XXXIV was a little-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s 13th Dynasty, ruling during the politically fragmented Second Intermediate Period.
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D.
Sewadjkare XXIII
Sewadjkare XXIII was a relatively obscure pharaoh who ruled during Egypt’s politically fragmented 13th Dynasty in the Second Intermediate Period.
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E.
Sewadjkare XXXIX
Sewadjkare XXXIX was a little-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s 13th Dynasty, ruling during the politically fragmented Second Intermediate Period.
- 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: Sewadjkare XLII Target entity description: Sewadjkare XLII was a relatively obscure and short-reigning pharaoh of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty during the politically fragmented Second Intermediate Period.
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A.
Sewadjkare XXXII
Sewadjkare XXXII was a relatively obscure and short-reigning pharaoh of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period.
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B.
Sewadjkare XXII
Sewadjkare XXII was a relatively obscure pharaoh of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty, ruling during the politically fragmented Second Intermediate Period.
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C.
Sewadjkare XXXIV
Sewadjkare XXXIV was a little-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s 13th Dynasty, ruling during the politically fragmented Second Intermediate Period.
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D.
Sewadjkare XXIII
Sewadjkare XXIII was a relatively obscure pharaoh who ruled during Egypt’s politically fragmented 13th Dynasty in the Second Intermediate Period.
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E.
Sewadjkare XXXIX
Sewadjkare XXXIX was a little-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s 13th Dynasty, ruling during the politically fragmented Second Intermediate Period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt ruler
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ancient Egyptian pharaoh ⓘ |
| attestedIn | later king lists ⓘ |
| capitalLikely | Itjtawy (probable) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicalPlacement | early Second Intermediate Period ⓘ |
| country |
Pharaonic Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Egypt
|
| culture | ancient Egyptian civilization ⓘ |
| dynasty | Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Bronze Age ⓘ |
| governingRegion | Nile Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalCertainty | uncertain chronology ⓘ |
| knownFrom | scarce archaeological and textual evidence ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Ancient Egyptian language ⓘ |
| period | Middle Kingdom–Second Intermediate Period transition ⓘ |
| politicalContext | period of political fragmentation in Egypt ⓘ |
| regnalStatus | minor king ⓘ |
| reignCharacteristics |
poorly attested
ⓘ
short reign ⓘ |
| reignPeriod | Second Intermediate Period of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| royalHouse | Thirteenth Dynasty royal house ⓘ |
| royalPrenomen | Sewadjkare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| royalTitle | King of Upper and Lower Egypt ⓘ |
| sovereignOf | Kingdom of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorDynastyContext | predecessor of the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty ⓘ |
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: Sewadjkare XLII Description of subject: Sewadjkare XLII was a relatively obscure and short-reigning pharaoh of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty during the politically fragmented Second Intermediate Period.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.