Tell Barri
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Tell Barri is an important archaeological mound in northeastern Syria that contains remains from multiple ancient Near Eastern civilizations, including Hurrian, Assyrian, and later periods.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tell Barri canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4825307 — 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 Barri Context triple: [Khabur River, hasArchaeologicalSite, Tell Barri]
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Barri
Barri is a given name variant of Barry, typically used as a personal name.
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B.
Belén
Belén is a town in northwestern Argentina known for its traditional weaving and role as a regional center in Catamarca Province.
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C.
Rivas
Rivas is a city in southwestern Nicaragua known as a regional commercial center and gateway between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific coast.
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D.
Obarrio
Obarrio is a prominent upscale neighborhood in Panama City known for its concentration of banks, corporate offices, and modern high-rise buildings.
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E.
Ciudad Serdán
Ciudad Serdán is a town in the Mexican state of Puebla, known as a gateway community to the nearby Pico de Orizaba volcano and surrounding highland region.
- 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 Barri Target entity description: Tell Barri is an important archaeological mound in northeastern Syria that contains remains from multiple ancient Near Eastern civilizations, including Hurrian, Assyrian, and later periods.
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A.
Barri
Barri is a given name variant of Barry, typically used as a personal name.
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B.
Belén
Belén is a town in northwestern Argentina known for its traditional weaving and role as a regional center in Catamarca Province.
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C.
Rivas
Rivas is a city in southwestern Nicaragua known as a regional commercial center and gateway between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific coast.
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D.
Obarrio
Obarrio is a prominent upscale neighborhood in Panama City known for its concentration of banks, corporate offices, and modern high-rise buildings.
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E.
Ciudad Serdán
Ciudad Serdán is a town in the Mexican state of Puebla, known as a gateway community to the nearby Pico de Orizaba volcano and surrounding highland region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient settlement mound
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archaeological site ⓘ |
| chronology |
Classical antiquity
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Early Bronze Age ⓘ Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ Late Bronze Age ⓘ Middle Bronze Age ⓘ |
| country | Syria ⓘ |
| culture |
Assyrian civilization
NERFINISHED
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Byzantine period ⓘ Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ Hurrian civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Islamic period ⓘ Mitanni period NERFINISHED ⓘ Neo-Assyrian period NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman period ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Italian archaeological mission
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Paolo Emilio Pecorella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| excavationStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kahat
NERFINISHED
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Tall Barri NERFINISHED ⓘ Tell Berrī NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalStrata |
Bronze Age levels
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Classical levels ⓘ Iron Age levels ⓘ Medieval levels ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceOf |
Assyrian occupation
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Hurrian occupation ⓘ Mitanni administration NERFINISHED ⓘ Neo-Assyrian provincial center ⓘ burials ⓘ ceramic assemblages ⓘ cuneiform tablets ⓘ fortifications ⓘ palatial architecture ⓘ residential quarters ⓘ temple architecture ⓘ |
| hasTopographicalForm | tell ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Upper Khabur River region
NERFINISHED
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al-Hasakah Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ northeastern Syria ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Khabur River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | ancient Near East ⓘ |
| region | Jazira plain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance |
important for understanding Assyrian provincial organization
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key site for study of Hurrian culture ⓘ multi-period occupation sequence ⓘ |
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: Tell Barri Description of subject: Tell Barri is an important archaeological mound in northeastern Syria that contains remains from multiple ancient Near Eastern civilizations, including Hurrian, Assyrian, and later periods.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.