Tiye
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Tiye was a powerful and influential queen of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, wife of Amenhotep III and mother of the pharaoh Akhenaten.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tiye canonical | 5 |
| Queen Tiye | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4529354 — 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: Tiye Context triple: [Akhenaten, mother, Tiye]
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A.
Ankhesenpepi I
Ankhesenpepi I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the Sixth Dynasty, notable as one of the principal wives of Pharaoh Pepi I and the mother of King Merenre I.
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B.
Hetepheres I
Hetepheres I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th Dynasty, best known as the wife of King Sneferu and the mother of Pharaoh Khufu, and for her richly furnished tomb discovered near the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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C.
Khentkaus I
Khentkaus I was an influential ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th–5th Dynasty transition, often associated with Giza and thought to have held an unusually powerful, possibly kingly, status.
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D.
Ankhesenpepi II
Ankhesenpepi II was an influential queen of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty, known for her powerful role in the royal court and as a key figure in the late Old Kingdom.
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E.
Nefretiri
Nefretiri is a central character in the 1956 biblical epic film "The Ten Commandments," portrayed as an Egyptian princess torn between her love for Moses and her loyalty to the Pharaoh.
- 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: Tiye Target entity description: Tiye was a powerful and influential queen of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, wife of Amenhotep III and mother of the pharaoh Akhenaten.
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A.
Ankhesenpepi I
Ankhesenpepi I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the Sixth Dynasty, notable as one of the principal wives of Pharaoh Pepi I and the mother of King Merenre I.
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B.
Hetepheres I
Hetepheres I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th Dynasty, best known as the wife of King Sneferu and the mother of Pharaoh Khufu, and for her richly furnished tomb discovered near the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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C.
Khentkaus I
Khentkaus I was an influential ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th–5th Dynasty transition, often associated with Giza and thought to have held an unusually powerful, possibly kingly, status.
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D.
Ankhesenpepi II
Ankhesenpepi II was an influential queen of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty, known for her powerful role in the royal court and as a key figure in the late Old Kingdom.
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E.
Nefretiri
Nefretiri is a central character in the 1956 biblical epic film "The Ten Commandments," portrayed as an Egyptian princess torn between her love for Moses and her loyalty to the Pharaoh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th Dynasty of Egypt figure
ⓘ
Ancient Egyptian person ⓘ Queen of Egypt ⓘ |
| approximateLifeSpan | c. 1398–1338 BCE ⓘ |
| artStyle | Amarna art (late depictions) ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Amarna period religious changes ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Thebes (originally)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Valley of the Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childhoodOrigin | Akhmim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| correspondedWith | Tushratta of Mitanni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Pharaonic Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Egypt
|
| cultCenter | Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedWith |
Akhenaten
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Amenhotep III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Ancient Egyptian ⓘ |
| father | Yuya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 14th century BCE ⓘ |
| hadForeignCorrespondence | Yes ⓘ |
| hadInfluenceOn | Royal succession in late 18th Dynasty ⓘ |
| hadOwnRoyalEstate | Yes ⓘ |
| honoredBy | Amenhotep III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| husbandReign | Amenhotep III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Amarna letters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Thuya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Akhenaten
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beketaten NERFINISHED ⓘ Henuttaneb NERFINISHED ⓘ Iset NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebetah NERFINISHED ⓘ Sitamun NERFINISHED ⓘ Smenkhkare NERFINISHED ⓘ Thutmose (son of Amenhotep III) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mummyIdentified | Yes ⓘ |
| mummyLocation | Egyptian Museum in Cairo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Influence during early Amarna period
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Political influence during reign of Amenhotep III ⓘ |
| possiblyMotherOf | Tutankhamun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reburiedIn | KV35 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | One of the most powerful queens of the 18th Dynasty ⓘ |
| religion | Ancient Egyptian religion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sonReign | Akhenaten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Amenhotep III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Great Royal Wife
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King’s Mother ⓘ Lady of the Two Lands NERFINISHED ⓘ Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt ⓘ Queen Consort of Egypt ⓘ |
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: Tiye Description of subject: Tiye was a powerful and influential queen of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, wife of Amenhotep III and mother of the pharaoh Akhenaten.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Queen Tiye