Boğazköy (Hattusa)

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UNESCO World Heritage Site ancient city archaeological site

Boğazköy (Hattusa) is the archaeological site of the ancient Hittite capital in central Anatolia, renowned for its extensive cuneiform tablet archives that are key to the study of Anatolian languages.

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All labels observed (18)

Label	Occurrences
Hattusa	38
Hattusha: the Hittite Capital	4
Hattusa (probable)	2
Boghazköy	1
Boğazköy (Hattusa) canonical	1
Büyükkale hill area of Hattusa	1
Great Temple of Hattusa	1
Hattusa fortifications	1
Hattusa lower city	1
Hattusa temple complex	1
Hattusha	1
Hittite royal citadel of Hattusa	1
UNESCO World Heritage Site Hattusha	1
UNESCO World Heritage Site Hattusha: the Hittite Capital	1
Upper City of Hattusa	1
Yazılıkaya sanctuary	1
ancient city of Hattusa	1
eastern fortifications of Hattusa	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T294225 — 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: Boğazköy (Hattusa)
Context triple: [Anatolian languages, majorCorpusLocation, Boğazköy (Hattusa)]

A. Hatra
Hatra is an ancient fortified city in northern Iraq, renowned for its well-preserved blend of Hellenistic and Parthian architecture and its role as a major religious and trading center in the early centuries CE.
B. Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
C. Basilica Cistern
The Basilica Cistern is a vast underground Byzantine water reservoir in Istanbul, famed for its forest of marble columns and atmospheric, cathedral-like interior.
D. Karyes
Karyes is the principal administrative and spiritual center of the monastic community on Mount Athos in Greece.
E. Nippur
Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
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: Boğazköy (Hattusa)
Target entity description: Boğazköy (Hattusa) is the archaeological site of the ancient Hittite capital in central Anatolia, renowned for its extensive cuneiform tablet archives that are key to the study of Anatolian languages.

A. Hatra
Hatra is an ancient fortified city in northern Iraq, renowned for its well-preserved blend of Hellenistic and Parthian architecture and its role as a major religious and trading center in the early centuries CE.
B. Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
C. Basilica Cistern
The Basilica Cistern is a vast underground Byzantine water reservoir in Istanbul, famed for its forest of marble columns and atmospheric, cathedral-like interior.
D. Karyes
Karyes is the principal administrative and spiritual center of the monastic community on Mount Athos in Greece.
E. Nippur
Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ
ancientName	Boğazköy (Hattusa) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Hattusa
associatedWithPeople	Hittite Empire ⓘ surface form: Hittites
capitalOf	Hatti ⓘ Hittite Empire ⓘ
country	Turkey ⓘ
discoveredBy	Charles Texier ⓘ
excavatedBy	German Archaeological Institute ⓘ
firstSurveyedIn	1834 ⓘ
floruit	2nd millennium BCE ⓘ
hasPart	Great Temple ⓘ King’s Gate ⓘ Lion Gate ⓘ Lower City ⓘ Sphinx Gate ⓘ Upper City ⓘ Boğazköy (Hattusa) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Yazılıkaya sanctuary Yerkapı rampart ⓘ city walls ⓘ royal citadel ⓘ
heritageDesignation	UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
knownFor	Hittite laws ⓘ surface form: Hittite law codes Hittite royal archives ⓘ cuneiform tablet archives ⓘ international treaties ⓘ religious texts ⓘ study of Anatolian languages ⓘ
languageOfInscriptions	Akkadian ⓘ Hittite (Nesite) ⓘ surface form: Hittite Hurrian ⓘ
locatedIn	Central Anatolia Region ⓘ surface form: central Anatolia Çorum Province ⓘ
locatedInValleyOf	Kızılırmak River bend ⓘ
locatedNear	modern village of Boğazkale ⓘ
period	Bronze Age ⓘ
region	Anatolia ⓘ
significance	key site for study of ancient Near Eastern diplomacy ⓘ key site for understanding Hittite civilization ⓘ
systematicExcavationsBegan	1906 ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria	(i) ⓘ (ii) ⓘ (iii) ⓘ (iv) ⓘ (vi) ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear	1986 ⓘ
writingSystem	cuneiform ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (59)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hattusili III → deathPlace → Boğazköy (Hattusa) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hattusa (probable)

Suppiluliuma II → capital → Boğazköy (Hattusa) ⓘ