Tukulti-Ninurta II
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Tukulti-Ninurta II was a king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 9th century BCE, known for consolidating Assyrian power through military campaigns and building projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tukulti-Ninurta II canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9956763 — 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: Tukulti-Ninurta II Context triple: [Ashurnasirpal II, father, Tukulti-Ninurta II]
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Nur-Adad
Nur-Adad was an early 2nd-millennium BCE king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa, known from royal inscriptions and building projects.
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B.
Ashurnasirpal II
Ashurnasirpal II was a powerful 9th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his military conquests, administrative reforms, and monumental building projects, including the royal palace at Kalhu (Nimrud).
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C.
Arnuwanda II
Arnuwanda II was a short-reigning Hittite king of the late 14th century BCE, known primarily as the son and heir of the powerful ruler Suppiluliuma I during a period of plague and political instability.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Tukulti-Ninurta II Target entity description: Tukulti-Ninurta II was a king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 9th century BCE, known for consolidating Assyrian power through military campaigns and building projects.
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A.
Nur-Adad
Nur-Adad was an early 2nd-millennium BCE king of the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Larsa, known from royal inscriptions and building projects.
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B.
Ashurnasirpal II
Ashurnasirpal II was a powerful 9th-century BCE Neo-Assyrian king known for his military conquests, administrative reforms, and monumental building projects, including the royal palace at Kalhu (Nimrud).
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C.
Arnuwanda II
Arnuwanda II was a short-reigning Hittite king of the late 14th century BCE, known primarily as the son and heir of the powerful ruler Suppiluliuma I during a period of plague and political instability.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Neo-Assyrian king
ⓘ
monarch ⓘ |
| assertedControlOver | trade routes in northern Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity |
Assur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nineveh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| built |
fortifications in Assur
ⓘ
palace structures in Assur ⓘ |
| campaignedAgainst |
Aramean tribes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Babylonia NERFINISHED ⓘ Nairi lands NERFINISHED ⓘ Zamua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Assur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 9th century BCE ⓘ |
| commissioned | inscriptional stelae ⓘ |
| conductedCampaignsIn |
northern Mesopotamia
ⓘ
western Iran ⓘ |
| contributedTo | territorial expansion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire ⓘ |
| country | Neo-Assyrian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Assyrian ⓘ |
| deathDate | 884 BCE ⓘ |
| dynasty | Adaside dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Neo-Assyrian period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expandedControlOver | Upper Tigris region ⓘ |
| father | Adad-nirari II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
building projects
ⓘ
consolidation of Assyrian power ⓘ military campaigns ⓘ |
| languageOfInscriptions | Akkadian ⓘ |
| maintainedVassalageOf | local rulers in Zamua ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Assur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Adad-nirari II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 884 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | 890 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ |
| strengthened | Assyrian royal authority ⓘ |
| strengthenedControlOver | Zagros foothills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleOfRule | militaristic monarchy ⓘ |
| successor | Ashurnasirpal II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | King of Assyria ⓘ |
| usedWritingSystem | cuneiform ⓘ |
| veneratedDeity |
Adad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ashur NERFINISHED ⓘ Ishtar 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: Tukulti-Ninurta II Description of subject: Tukulti-Ninurta II was a king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 9th century BCE, known for consolidating Assyrian power through military campaigns and building projects.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.