Hittite king Suppiluliuma I
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Hittite king Suppiluliuma I was a powerful 14th-century BCE ruler who greatly expanded the Hittite Empire through military campaigns and diplomatic maneuvering, making it a dominant power in the ancient Near East.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hittite king Suppiluliuma I canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8266021 — 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: Hittite king Suppiluliuma I Context triple: [Mitanni, conflictWith, Hittite king Suppiluliuma I]
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Hattusili III
Hattusili III was a powerful Hittite king of the 13th century BCE, known for stabilizing the empire, relocating the capital to Hattusa, and concluding one of history’s earliest recorded peace treaties with Egypt.
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B.
Mursili II
Mursili II was a powerful Hittite king of the late 14th century BCE who consolidated and expanded the empire through successful military campaigns and internal reforms.
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C.
Tiglath-Pileser III
Tiglath-Pileser III was a powerful 8th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his military conquests, administrative reforms, and expansion of the Assyrian Empire across the Near East.
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D.
Shulgi of Ur
Shulgi of Ur was a powerful king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, renowned for his extensive administrative reforms, monumental building projects, and promotion of Sumerian culture and literature.
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E.
Shamshi-Adad I
Shamshi-Adad I was an influential Old Assyrian king of Amorite origin who expanded Assyrian power across northern Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE.
- 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: Hittite king Suppiluliuma I Target entity description: Hittite king Suppiluliuma I was a powerful 14th-century BCE ruler who greatly expanded the Hittite Empire through military campaigns and diplomatic maneuvering, making it a dominant power in the ancient Near East.
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A.
Hattusili III
Hattusili III was a powerful Hittite king of the 13th century BCE, known for stabilizing the empire, relocating the capital to Hattusa, and concluding one of history’s earliest recorded peace treaties with Egypt.
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B.
Mursili II
Mursili II was a powerful Hittite king of the late 14th century BCE who consolidated and expanded the empire through successful military campaigns and internal reforms.
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C.
Tiglath-Pileser III
Tiglath-Pileser III was a powerful 8th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his military conquests, administrative reforms, and expansion of the Assyrian Empire across the Near East.
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D.
Shulgi of Ur
Shulgi of Ur was a powerful king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, renowned for his extensive administrative reforms, monumental building projects, and promotion of Sumerian culture and literature.
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E.
Shamshi-Adad I
Shamshi-Adad I was an influential Old Assyrian king of Amorite origin who expanded Assyrian power across northern Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hittite king
ⓘ
ancient Near Eastern ruler ⓘ |
| blamedForSonDeath | Egyptians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campaignAgainst |
Carchemish (in context of Mitanni conflict)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Egyptian vassal states in Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ Kadesh NERFINISHED ⓘ Mitanni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Hattusa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Arnuwanda II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mursili II NERFINISHED ⓘ Piyassili (Šarri-Kušuḫ) NERFINISHED ⓘ Telipinu (priest of Kizzuwatna) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conquered | large parts of northern Syria ⓘ |
| deathApproximateDate | early 14th century BCE ⓘ |
| deathCause | plague ⓘ |
| dynasty | Hittite New Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Late Bronze Age ⓘ |
| expandedEmpireTo |
Euphrates River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Tudhaliya II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | founder of Hittite imperial greatness in the New Kingdom period ⓘ |
| installedVassal | Šattiwaza of Mitanni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedInEvent | Dakhamunzu affair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Hittite Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
diplomatic maneuvering in the ancient Near East
ⓘ
making the Hittite Empire a major power in the Near East ⓘ military expansion of the Hittite Empire ⓘ |
| languageOfInscriptions | Hittite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Queen Daduhepa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Suppiluliuma I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plagueLikelyOrigin | Egyptian prisoners of war ⓘ |
| predecessor | Tudhaliya II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| receivedLetterFrom | Egyptian queen (Dakhamunzu, likely Ankhesenamun) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Anatolia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignApproximateDates |
c. 1344–1322 BCE
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c. 1350–1322 BCE ⓘ |
| reignCentury | 14th century BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Hittite polytheism ⓘ |
| retaliatedAgainst | Egyptian vassal states in Syria after Zannanza’s death ⓘ |
| rival | Egyptian New Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sentSon | Zannanza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sonMissionPurpose | to marry Egyptian queen and become king of Egypt ⓘ |
| sonZannanzaFate | died en route to Egypt under unclear circumstances ⓘ |
| sourceMention | Hittite annals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Henti
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tawananna (Hittite queen, later wife) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Arnuwanda II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Great King
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Labarna (royal title) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| treatyWith | Šattiwaza of Mitanni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hittite king Suppiluliuma I Description of subject: Hittite king Suppiluliuma I was a powerful 14th-century BCE ruler who greatly expanded the Hittite Empire through military campaigns and diplomatic maneuvering, making it a dominant power in the ancient Near East.
Referenced by (1)
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