Ur-Nammu
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Ur-Nammu was an ancient Sumerian king of Ur best known for founding the Third Dynasty of Ur and issuing one of the earliest known law codes in history.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ur-Nammu canonical | 12 |
| King of Ur | 4 |
| Ur-Namma | 2 |
| Shulgi | 1 |
| Ur-Nammu of Ur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1900888 — 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-Nammu Context triple: [Sumer, hasFamousRuler, Ur-Nammu]
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A.
Hamura
Hamura is a city in western Tokyo, Japan, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to the Tama River.
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B.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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C.
Nabopolassar
Nabopolassar was a Chaldean king who led the revolt against Assyria and became the first ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the late 7th century BCE.
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D.
Ur of the Chaldeans
Ur of the Chaldeans is an ancient Mesopotamian city traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham.
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E.
Hammurabi
Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon, best known for creating one of the earliest and most influential written legal codes in ancient Mesopotamia.
- 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-Nammu Target entity description: Ur-Nammu was an ancient Sumerian king of Ur best known for founding the Third Dynasty of Ur and issuing one of the earliest known law codes in history.
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A.
Hamura
Hamura is a city in western Tokyo, Japan, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to the Tama River.
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B.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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C.
Nabopolassar
Nabopolassar was a Chaldean king who led the revolt against Assyria and became the first ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the late 7th century BCE.
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D.
Ur of the Chaldeans
Ur of the Chaldeans is an ancient Mesopotamian city traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham.
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E.
Hammurabi
Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon, best known for creating one of the earliest and most influential written legal codes in ancient Mesopotamia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sumerian king
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ king ⓘ monarch of Ur ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Ur-Nammu
ⓘ
surface form:
Ur-Namma
Ur-Nammur ⓘ |
| associatedWithSite | Ur archaeological site ⓘ |
| capital | Ur ⓘ |
| child |
Shulgi of Ur
ⓘ
surface form:
Shulgi
|
| constructed |
Ziggurat of Ur
ⓘ
city walls of Ur ⓘ |
| country | Sumer ⓘ |
| culture | Sumerian ⓘ |
| deathCause | possibly killed in battle ⓘ |
| deathPlace | possibly in the north of Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Third Dynasty of Ur period
ⓘ
surface form:
Third Dynasty of Ur
|
| era | Ur III period ⓘ |
| founded |
Third Dynasty of Ur period
ⓘ
surface form:
Third Dynasty of Ur
|
| implemented |
centralized administration in Ur III state
ⓘ
standardized legal penalties in his law code ⓘ |
| influenced | later Mesopotamian law codes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Code of Ur-Nammu
ⓘ
surface form:
Ur-Nammu law code
construction of ziggurats ⓘ founding the Third Dynasty of Ur ⓘ issuing one of the earliest known law codes ⓘ large-scale building projects in Ur ⓘ |
| languageOfLawCode |
Sumerian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Sumerian
|
| lawCode | Code of Ur-Nammu ⓘ |
| lawCodeFeature |
primarily monetary fines instead of physical punishments
ⓘ
provisions on bodily injury ⓘ provisions on false accusations ⓘ provisions on marriage and divorce ⓘ provisions on slavery ⓘ |
| legalSystemType | written law code ⓘ |
| modernCountry | Iraq ⓘ |
| name | Ur-Nammu self-link ⓘ |
| patronDeity | Nanna ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
King of Sumer and Akkad
ⓘ
Ur-Nammu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
King of Ur
|
| precededBy | earlier Sumerian legal traditions ⓘ |
| predecessor | Utu-hengal ⓘ |
| region | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | circa 2095 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | circa 2112 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Sumerian religion ⓘ |
| successor |
Shulgi of Ur
ⓘ
surface form:
Shulgi
|
| timePeriod | late 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| title |
King of Sumer and Akkad
ⓘ
Ur-Nammu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
King of Ur
|
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-Nammu Description of subject: Ur-Nammu was an ancient Sumerian king of Ur best known for founding the Third Dynasty of Ur and issuing one of the earliest known law codes in history.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ur-Namma
this entity surface form:
Ur-Nammu of Ur
this entity surface form:
Ur-Namma
this entity surface form:
King of Ur
this entity surface form:
King of Ur