Erech

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ancient city archaeological site

Erech is the ancient name for the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, one of the earliest major urban centers in human history.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Erech canonical	3

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Unug NERFINISHED ⓘ Uruk NERFINISHED ⓘ Warka NERFINISHED ⓘ
archaeologicalExcavationsBy	German archaeological missions ⓘ
associatedWith	Anu NERFINISHED ⓘ Gilgamesh NERFINISHED ⓘ Inanna NERFINISHED ⓘ
culture	Mesopotamian civilization ⓘ Sumerian civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ
developed	early urbanization ⓘ early writing systems ⓘ monumental architecture ⓘ
era	Bronze Age ⓘ Late Uruk period NERFINISHED ⓘ
flourishedInPeriod	4th millennium BCE ⓘ Uruk period ⓘ
governedBy	kings of Uruk NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalSiteName	Warka NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	Anu ziggurat NERFINISHED ⓘ temple precinct of Eanna NERFINISHED ⓘ
heritageDesignation	important Mesopotamian archaeological heritage site ⓘ
languageContext	Akkadian NERFINISHED ⓘ Sumerian NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn	Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ modern-day Iraq ⓘ southern Mesopotamia ⓘ
locatedNear	Euphrates River NERFINISHED ⓘ
mentionedIn	Epic of Gilgamesh NERFINISHED ⓘ
modernCountry	Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Sumer NERFINISHED ⓘ
politicalRole	city-state capital ⓘ
referencedIn	Hebrew Bible (as Erech in Genesis 10:10) ⓘ
region	Lower Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	ancient Mesopotamian religion ⓘ
significance	one of the earliest major urban centers in human history ⓘ one of the first cities in the world ⓘ
timeDepth	5th millennium BCE origins ⓘ
tradeRole	regional trade center ⓘ
UNESCOTentativeListStatus	yes (as part of Uruk archaeological site) ⓘ
urbanFeature	administrative buildings ⓘ city walls ⓘ monumental temples ⓘ
writingSystemDeveloped	cuneiform ⓘ proto-cuneiform ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Erech
Description of subject: Erech is the ancient name for the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, one of the earliest major urban centers in human history.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Uruk archaeological site → alternateName → Erech ⓘ

Warka → hasAlternativeName → Erech ⓘ

White Mountains → notableLocation → Erech ⓘ