Pyramid Texts
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The Pyramid Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious inscriptions carved inside Old Kingdom pyramids, intended to protect and guide the pharaoh in the afterlife.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T449003 — 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: Pyramid Texts Context triple: [Isis, textualSource, Pyramid Texts]
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A.
Dream Stele of Thutmose IV
The Dream Stele of Thutmose IV is an ancient Egyptian inscribed stone slab commemorating a dream in which the future pharaoh was promised kingship by the sun god if he cleared the sand from the Great Sphinx of Giza.
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B.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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C.
Gods of Egypt
Gods of Egypt is a 2016 fantasy action film that reimagines ancient Egyptian deities and mythology in a visually extravagant, effects-driven adventure.
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D.
Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is an ancient Egyptian basalt slab inscribed with a theological and cosmological text from the 25th Dynasty that preserves a Memphite creation myth and early philosophical ideas about the god Ptah.
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E.
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs are the formal, pictorial writing system of ancient Egypt, used for monumental inscriptions, religious texts, and administrative records over several millennia.
- 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: Pyramid Texts Target entity description: The Pyramid Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious inscriptions carved inside Old Kingdom pyramids, intended to protect and guide the pharaoh in the afterlife.
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A.
Dream Stele of Thutmose IV
The Dream Stele of Thutmose IV is an ancient Egyptian inscribed stone slab commemorating a dream in which the future pharaoh was promised kingship by the sun god if he cleared the sand from the Great Sphinx of Giza.
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B.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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C.
Gods of Egypt
Gods of Egypt is a 2016 fantasy action film that reimagines ancient Egyptian deities and mythology in a visually extravagant, effects-driven adventure.
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D.
Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is an ancient Egyptian basalt slab inscribed with a theological and cosmological text from the 25th Dynasty that preserves a Memphite creation myth and early philosophical ideas about the god Ptah.
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E.
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs are the formal, pictorial writing system of ancient Egypt, used for monumental inscriptions, religious texts, and administrative records over several millennia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Egyptian religious text corpus
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funerary text ⓘ inscription ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
pharaohs of the Old Kingdom
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royal funerary cult ⓘ |
| contains |
hymns
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incantations ⓘ ritual instructions ⓘ spells ⓘ |
| cosmology |
Osirian afterlife beliefs
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solar afterlife beliefs ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Egyptian civilization ⓘ |
| earliestAttestation |
Sixth Dynasty of Egypt
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late Fifth Dynasty of Egypt ⓘ |
| feature |
formulaic spell structure
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parallelism and repetition ⓘ use of first-person speech by the king ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Saqqara necropolis
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Pyramid of Merenre ⓘ
surface form:
pyramids of Merenre I
Pyramid of Pepi I ⓘ
surface form:
pyramids of Pepi I
Pyramid of Pepi II ⓘ
surface form:
pyramids of Pepi II
pyramids of Teti ⓘ Pyramid of Unas ⓘ
surface form:
pyramids of Unas
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| genre |
funerary liturgy
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religious text ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
earliest large corpus of religious texts from ancient Egypt
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one of the oldest known religious texts in the world ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
Book of the Dead
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Coffin Texts ⓘ |
| inscribedOn |
burial chambers of pyramids
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corridors of pyramids ⓘ walls of pyramids ⓘ |
| language | Egyptian language ⓘ |
| locationOfEarliestExamples |
Pyramid of Unas
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surface form:
pyramid of Unas at Saqqara
|
| materialContext | limestone pyramid walls ⓘ |
| medium | stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| purpose |
to guide the pharaoh in the afterlife
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to protect the deceased king in the afterlife ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| religiousFunction |
assist the king’s ascent to the sky
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ensure resurrection of the king ⓘ unite the king with the god Osiris ⓘ unite the king with the sun god Ra ⓘ |
| scholarlyField | Egyptology ⓘ |
| script | Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ |
| studiedBy |
historians of religion
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philologists ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Old Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Pyramid Texts Description of subject: The Pyramid Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious inscriptions carved inside Old Kingdom pyramids, intended to protect and guide the pharaoh in the afterlife.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pyramid Texts inscriptions
this entity surface form:
Pyramid Texts inscriptions
this entity surface form:
Pyramid Texts inscriptions
this entity surface form:
The Rising of the Ba of Sahure (approximate translation)
subject surface form:
Sokar
this entity surface form:
Pyramid Texts (probable or partial)
this entity surface form:
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts
this entity surface form:
Pyramid Texts (later tradition)