Tell Abu Habbah
E351431
Tell Abu Habbah is the archaeological mound that marks the site of ancient Sippar, a major Mesopotamian city in present-day Iraq.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tell Abu Habbah canonical | 2 |
| Tell Abu Habba | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3361457 — 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: Tell Abu Habbah Context triple: [Sippar, archaeologicalSiteName, Tell Abu Habbah]
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A.
Bir al-Abd
Bir al-Abd is a town in Egypt’s North Sinai region, known for its location along the Mediterranean coast and its role as a local administrative and commercial center.
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B.
Al-Kisāʾī
Al-Kisāʾī was a prominent early Arabic grammarian and Qurʾān reciter, renowned as one of the leading scholars of the Kufan linguistic tradition.
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C.
Al-Hareeq
Al-Hareeq is a town in central Saudi Arabia known for its agricultural activity, particularly date palm cultivation, within the Riyadh region.
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D.
At-Tariq
At-Tariq is the 86th chapter of the Qur’an, known for its vivid opening oath by the night-piercing star and its emphasis on God’s power over creation and resurrection.
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E.
El Tebbin
El Tebbin is an industrial district in southern Cairo, Egypt, known for its steel and heavy manufacturing facilities.
- 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: Tell Abu Habbah Target entity description: Tell Abu Habbah is the archaeological mound that marks the site of ancient Sippar, a major Mesopotamian city in present-day Iraq.
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A.
Bir al-Abd
Bir al-Abd is a town in Egypt’s North Sinai region, known for its location along the Mediterranean coast and its role as a local administrative and commercial center.
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B.
Al-Kisāʾī
Al-Kisāʾī was a prominent early Arabic grammarian and Qurʾān reciter, renowned as one of the leading scholars of the Kufan linguistic tradition.
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C.
Al-Hareeq
Al-Hareeq is a town in central Saudi Arabia known for its agricultural activity, particularly date palm cultivation, within the Riyadh region.
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D.
At-Tariq
At-Tariq is the 86th chapter of the Qur’an, known for its vivid opening oath by the night-piercing star and its emphasis on God’s power over creation and resurrection.
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E.
El Tebbin
El Tebbin is an industrial district in southern Cairo, Egypt, known for its steel and heavy manufacturing facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
ⓘ
tell ⓘ |
| ancientCityAtSite | Sippar ⓘ |
| archaeologicalFind |
economic texts
ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ literary texts ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mesopotamia
ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Mesopotamia
|
| containsRemainsOf |
administrative buildings
ⓘ
temple complex ⓘ |
| country | Iraq ⓘ |
| culture |
Akkadian
ⓘ
Babylonian ⓘ |
| dedicatedToDeity | Shamash ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | Hormuzd Rassam ⓘ |
| excavationStartDate | 1880 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Abu Habba
ⓘ
Tell Abu Habbah ⓘ
surface form:
Tell Abu Habba
|
| knownFor |
cuneiform tablets
ⓘ
temple of Shamash ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baghdad Governorate
ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | central Iraq ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Euphrates
ⓘ
surface form:
Euphrates River
|
| marksSiteOf | Sippar ⓘ |
| partOf | ancient Babylonian heartland ⓘ |
| period |
Neo-Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Neo-Babylonian period
Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Old Babylonian period
|
| region | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| significance | major Mesopotamian urban center site ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC+3 ⓘ |
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: Tell Abu Habbah Description of subject: Tell Abu Habbah is the archaeological mound that marks the site of ancient Sippar, a major Mesopotamian city in present-day Iraq.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tell Abu Habba