Neriglissar
E70015
Neriglissar was a 6th-century BCE king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, known for seizing the throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son and for his building projects in Babylon.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neriglissar canonical | 7 |
| Nergal-sharezer | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T546158 — 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: Neriglissar Context triple: [Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruler, Neriglissar]
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A.
Narsai
Narsai was a prominent 5th-century Syriac Christian theologian and poet, renowned for his extensive homilies and influential role in the Church of the East.
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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.
Mandane of Media
Mandane of Media was a Median princess and queen, best known as the mother of Cyrus the Great and a key figure in the dynastic origins of the Achaemenid Empire.
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D.
Marduk
Marduk is the chief god of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with creation, kingship, and the defeat of the chaos monster Tiamat.
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E.
Haggith
Haggith is a lesser-known wife of King David in the Hebrew Bible and the mother of his son Adonijah.
- 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: Neriglissar Target entity description: Neriglissar was a 6th-century BCE king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, known for seizing the throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son and for his building projects in Babylon.
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A.
Narsai
Narsai was a prominent 5th-century Syriac Christian theologian and poet, renowned for his extensive homilies and influential role in the Church of the East.
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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.
Mandane of Media
Mandane of Media was a Median princess and queen, best known as the mother of Cyrus the Great and a key figure in the dynastic origins of the Achaemenid Empire.
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D.
Marduk
Marduk is the chief god of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with creation, kingship, and the defeat of the chaos monster Tiamat.
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E.
Haggith
Haggith is a lesser-known wife of King David in the Hebrew Bible and the mother of his son Adonijah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Babylon
ⓘ
Neo-Babylonian king ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Neriglissar
ⓘ
surface form:
Nergal-sharezer
Nergal-šarra-uṣur ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Babylon ⓘ |
| capital | Babylon ⓘ |
| century | 6th century BCE ⓘ |
| chronologicalPosition | fourth king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ |
| culture |
Babylonians
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonian
|
| deathPlace |
Babylon
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylon (probable)
|
| dynasty |
Neo-Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Neo-Babylonian dynasty
|
| era |
Neo-Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Late Babylonian period
|
| fatherInLaw | Nebuchadnezzar II ⓘ |
| governedTerritory |
Babylon
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonia
|
| historicalPeriod | Iron Age ⓘ |
| kingdom | Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ |
| knownFor |
construction and restoration of temples
ⓘ
major building projects in Babylon ⓘ seizing the Babylonian throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son ⓘ work on Babylon’s fortifications ⓘ |
| language | Akkadian ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions ⓘ |
| name | Neriglissar self-link ⓘ |
| notableConstruction |
strengthening of city walls of Babylon
ⓘ
temple renovations in Babylon ⓘ |
| overthrew | Amel-Marduk ⓘ |
| politicalStatusBeforeReign |
high-ranking Babylonian noble
ⓘ
military commander ⓘ |
| predecessor | Amel-Marduk ⓘ |
| regionRuled | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 556 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | 560 BCE ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Amel-Marduk
ⓘ
Labashi-Marduk ⓘ Nebuchadnezzar II ⓘ |
| religion | Babylonian polytheism ⓘ |
| sourceType |
later king lists
ⓘ
royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| spouse | Kashshaya ⓘ |
| successor | Labashi-Marduk ⓘ |
| successorRelation | father of Labashi-Marduk ⓘ |
| title |
King of Babylon
ⓘ
King of Sumer and Akkad ⓘ King of the Universe ⓘ |
| tookPowerBy | coup d’état ⓘ |
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: Neriglissar Description of subject: Neriglissar was a 6th-century BCE king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, known for seizing the throne after Nebuchadnezzar II’s son and for his building projects in Babylon.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nergal-sharezer
this entity surface form:
Nergal-sharezer
subject surface form:
Labashi-Marduk