Shoshenq IV
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Shoshenq IV was a relatively obscure pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty, ruling during the Third Intermediate Period and known mainly from a limited number of inscriptions and monuments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shoshenq IV canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7451137 — 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: Shoshenq IV Context triple: [Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt, hasRuler, Shoshenq IV]
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A.
Shoshenq III
Shoshenq III was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period who ruled much of the Nile Delta and continued the Libyan-descended line of the Twenty-second Dynasty.
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B.
Shoshenq II
Shoshenq II was a little-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty, primarily recognized from his richly furnished royal tomb at Tanis.
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C.
Shoshenq I
Shoshenq I was a Libyan-origin pharaoh who founded Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty and is often identified with the biblical Shishak who campaigned against the Kingdom of Judah.
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D.
Amenemhat IV
Amenemhat IV was a late Middle Kingdom pharaoh of Egypt, known for his relatively short and obscure reign that preceded the rise of the Second Intermediate Period.
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E.
Osorkon IV
Osorkon IV was a late Libyan pharaoh of ancient Egypt who ruled during the politically fragmented Third Intermediate Period and is often regarded as the final notable king of the Twenty-second Dynasty.
- 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: Shoshenq IV Target entity description: Shoshenq IV was a relatively obscure pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty, ruling during the Third Intermediate Period and known mainly from a limited number of inscriptions and monuments.
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A.
Shoshenq III
Shoshenq III was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period who ruled much of the Nile Delta and continued the Libyan-descended line of the Twenty-second Dynasty.
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B.
Shoshenq II
Shoshenq II was a little-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty, primarily recognized from his richly furnished royal tomb at Tanis.
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C.
Shoshenq I
Shoshenq I was a Libyan-origin pharaoh who founded Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty and is often identified with the biblical Shishak who campaigned against the Kingdom of Judah.
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D.
Amenemhat IV
Amenemhat IV was a late Middle Kingdom pharaoh of Egypt, known for his relatively short and obscure reign that preceded the rise of the Second Intermediate Period.
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E.
Osorkon IV
Osorkon IV was a late Libyan pharaoh of ancient Egypt who ruled during the politically fragmented Third Intermediate Period and is often regarded as the final notable king of the Twenty-second Dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Egyptian pharaoh
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ruler of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt ⓘ |
| associatedWithRoyalHouse | Libyan-origin rulers in Egypt ⓘ |
| attestedBy |
limited number of inscriptions
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limited number of monuments ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Egyptian monarchs
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Pharaohs of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt ⓘ Third Intermediate Period of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Pharaonic Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Egypt
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| culture | ancient Egyptian ⓘ |
| dynasty | Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedTerritory |
Delta region of Egypt
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Nile Valley region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalCertainty | poorly documented reign ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | relatively obscure pharaoh ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
inscriptions
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monuments ⓘ |
| language | Egyptian language ⓘ |
| period | Third Intermediate Period of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInChronology | late Twenty-second Dynasty ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ |
| scriptUsedOnMonuments | hieroglyphs ⓘ |
| successorDynastyContext | Libyan period of Egyptian history ⓘ |
| title |
King of Upper and Lower Egypt
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Pharaoh ⓘ |
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: Shoshenq IV Description of subject: Shoshenq IV was a relatively obscure pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Twenty-second Dynasty, ruling during the Third Intermediate Period and known mainly from a limited number of inscriptions and monuments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.