Samsu-iluna
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Samsu-iluna was a king of Babylon in the 18th century BCE, known for inheriting and struggling to maintain the vast empire established by his father Hammurabi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samsu-iluna canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6075553 — 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: Samsu-iluna Context triple: [Hammurabi, successor, Samsu-iluna]
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A.
Sin-leqi-unninni
Sin-leqi-unninni was a Babylonian scholar and scribe traditionally credited with compiling and editing the standard Akkadian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in the late second millennium BCE.
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B.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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C.
Esagila
Esagila was the principal temple complex dedicated to the god Marduk in ancient Babylon, serving as a major religious and ceremonial center of Mesopotamia.
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D.
Lugalzagesi
Lugalzagesi was a Sumerian king of Umma and later ruler of a briefly unified Sumer, known for his military conquests and eventual defeat by Sargon of Akkad.
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E.
Nergal-šarra-uṣur
Nergal-šarra-uṣur, better known by the Hellenized form Neriglissar, was a 6th-century BCE king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire who seized the throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son and ruled for a brief period marked by building projects and regional campaigns.
- 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: Samsu-iluna Target entity description: Samsu-iluna was a king of Babylon in the 18th century BCE, known for inheriting and struggling to maintain the vast empire established by his father Hammurabi.
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A.
Sin-leqi-unninni
Sin-leqi-unninni was a Babylonian scholar and scribe traditionally credited with compiling and editing the standard Akkadian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in the late second millennium BCE.
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B.
Amel-Marduk
Amel-Marduk was a 6th-century BCE king of Babylon, known from biblical and cuneiform sources as the successor of Nebuchadnezzar II and for releasing the Judean king Jehoiachin from prison.
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C.
Esagila
Esagila was the principal temple complex dedicated to the god Marduk in ancient Babylon, serving as a major religious and ceremonial center of Mesopotamia.
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D.
Lugalzagesi
Lugalzagesi was a Sumerian king of Umma and later ruler of a briefly unified Sumer, known for his military conquests and eventual defeat by Sargon of Akkad.
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E.
Nergal-šarra-uṣur
Nergal-šarra-uṣur, better known by the Hellenized form Neriglissar, was a 6th-century BCE king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire who seized the throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son and ruled for a brief period marked by building projects and regional campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Babylon
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Lower Mesopotamia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | decline of Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ |
| capital | Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfRule | 18th century BCE ⓘ |
| chronologicalPlacement | Old Babylonian kings list ⓘ |
| chronologySystem |
Middle Chronology
ⓘ
Short Chronology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| civilization | Babylonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Sealand Dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Old Babylonian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | First Dynasty of Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Old Babylonian period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | Amorite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Hammurabi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
cuneiform inscriptions
ⓘ
economic tablets ⓘ royal year names ⓘ |
| language | Akkadian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherLanguageRegion | Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inheriting the empire of Hammurabi
ⓘ
internal revolts during his reign ⓘ loss of territories gained by Hammurabi ⓘ struggling to maintain Babylonian hegemony ⓘ |
| policy |
fortification of Babylon
ⓘ
suppression of revolts ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Hammurabi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled | Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 1712 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 1750 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| royalHouse | Amorite dynasty of Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| royalStyle | King of Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Abi-eshuh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorRelation | Abi-eshuh was his son ⓘ |
| successorStateInSouth | First Sealand Dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territorialControl | Babylonian heartland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territorialLosses | southern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| title |
King of Sumer and Akkad
ⓘ
King of the Four Quarters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedWritingSystem | cuneiform ⓘ |
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: Samsu-iluna Description of subject: Samsu-iluna was a king of Babylon in the 18th century BCE, known for inheriting and struggling to maintain the vast empire established by his father Hammurabi.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.