Warka
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Warka is the modern name for the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk, one of the world’s earliest major urban centers in present-day Iraq.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Warka canonical | 3 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city site
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ human settlement ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Anu
ⓘ
Inanna ⓘ |
| coordinateApproximate | 31.32°N 45.63°E ⓘ |
| countryCapitalDistance | approximately 250 km southeast of Baghdad ⓘ |
| culturalPeriod |
Early Dynastic period
ⓘ
Jemdet Nasr period ⓘ Uruk period ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | German archaeological expeditions ⓘ |
| excavationStartYear | 1912 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Erech
ⓘ
Oechalia ⓘ
surface form:
Orchoe
Uruk ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFeature |
Eanna temple complex
ⓘ
surface form:
Eanna temple precinct
White Temple ⓘ administrative buildings ⓘ burial areas ⓘ city walls ⓘ residential quarters ⓘ temple complexes ⓘ Anu ziggurat ⓘ
surface form:
ziggurat of Anu
|
| hasSignificantArtifact |
Warka Mask
ⓘ
Uruk Vase ⓘ
surface form:
Warka Vase
clay tablets ⓘ cylinder seals ⓘ early cuneiform tablets ⓘ |
| hasUNESCOTentativeStatus | true ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
political center in southern Mesopotamia
ⓘ
religious center in southern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the earliest major urban centers in human history
ⓘ
early development of urbanization ⓘ early writing systems ⓘ monumental architecture ⓘ |
| languageUsedHistorically |
Akkadian
ⓘ
Sumerian language ⓘ
surface form:
Sumerian
|
| locatedInCountry | Iraq ⓘ |
| locatedInGovernorate |
Qadisiyyah Governorate
ⓘ
surface form:
Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate
|
| locatedInRegion | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| locatedNearRiver |
Euphrates
ⓘ
surface form:
Euphrates River
|
| modernNameOf | Uruk ⓘ |
| partOf | ancient Sumer ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
3rd millennium BCE
ⓘ
4th millennium BCE ⓘ |
| wasMajorCenterOf |
Sumerian civilization
ⓘ
early Mesopotamian civilization ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Warka Description of subject: Warka is the modern name for the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk, one of the world’s earliest major urban centers in present-day Iraq.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.