Famine Stela
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The Famine Stela is an ancient Egyptian inscription carved on a granite outcrop that recounts a seven-year famine during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser and attributes its end to the god Khnum.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Famine Stela canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14499897 — 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: Famine Stela Context triple: [Sehel Island, hasNotableInscriptionSite, Famine Stela]
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A.
Victory stela of Piye
The Victory stela of Piye is an ancient Egyptian monumental inscription commemorating the Kushite king Piye’s successful military campaign and consolidation of power over Egypt in the 8th century BCE.
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B.
Dream Stele of Thutmose IV
The Dream Stele of Thutmose IV is an ancient Egyptian inscribed stone slab commemorating a dream in which the future pharaoh was promised kingship by the sun god if he cleared the sand from the Great Sphinx of Giza.
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C.
Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is an ancient Egyptian basalt slab inscribed with a theological and cosmological text from the 25th Dynasty that preserves a Memphite creation myth and early philosophical ideas about the god Ptah.
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D.
Narmer Macehead
The Narmer Macehead is an ancient ceremonial stone macehead from early dynastic Egypt, notable for its carved scenes that likely commemorate King Narmer’s royal ceremonies or military victories and provide key evidence for the formation of the Egyptian state.
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E.
Dream stela of Tantamani
The Dream stela of Tantamani is an ancient Kushite royal monument whose inscription recounts King Tantamani’s divinely inspired claim to rule Egypt and Nubia.
- 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: Famine Stela Target entity description: The Famine Stela is an ancient Egyptian inscription carved on a granite outcrop that recounts a seven-year famine during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser and attributes its end to the god Khnum.
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A.
Victory stela of Piye
The Victory stela of Piye is an ancient Egyptian monumental inscription commemorating the Kushite king Piye’s successful military campaign and consolidation of power over Egypt in the 8th century BCE.
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B.
Dream Stele of Thutmose IV
The Dream Stele of Thutmose IV is an ancient Egyptian inscribed stone slab commemorating a dream in which the future pharaoh was promised kingship by the sun god if he cleared the sand from the Great Sphinx of Giza.
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C.
Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is an ancient Egyptian basalt slab inscribed with a theological and cosmological text from the 25th Dynasty that preserves a Memphite creation myth and early philosophical ideas about the god Ptah.
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D.
Narmer Macehead
The Narmer Macehead is an ancient ceremonial stone macehead from early dynastic Egypt, notable for its carved scenes that likely commemorate King Narmer’s royal ceremonies or military victories and provide key evidence for the formation of the Egyptian state.
-
E.
Dream stela of Tantamani
The Dream stela of Tantamani is an ancient Kushite royal monument whose inscription recounts King Tantamani’s divinely inspired claim to rule Egypt and Nubia.
- F. None of above. chosen
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