Shamakhi Uyezd
E148212
Shamakhi Uyezd was an administrative district centered on the town of Shamakhi within the Russian Empire’s Caucasian territories.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shamakhi District | 9 |
| Shamakhi Uyezd canonical | 1 |
| Shirvan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1242117 — 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: Shamakhi Uyezd Context triple: [Baku Governorate, hadSubdivision, Shamakhi Uyezd]
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A.
Baku Uyezd
Baku Uyezd was an administrative district centered on the city of Baku within the former Baku Governorate of the Russian Empire.
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B.
Baku Governorate
Baku Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire and later the early Soviet state, centered on the city of Baku in the South Caucasus region.
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C.
Shusha uezd
Shusha uezd was an administrative district of the Russian Empire’s Elisavetpol Governorate, centered on the historically significant city of Shusha in the South Caucasus.
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D.
Jevanshir uezd
Jevanshir uezd was an administrative district of the Russian Empire located in the South Caucasus within the Elisavetpol Governorate.
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E.
Lankaran Uyezd
Lankaran Uyezd was an administrative district of the Russian Empire located in the southern part of present-day Azerbaijan along the Caspian Sea.
- 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: Shamakhi Uyezd Target entity description: Shamakhi Uyezd was an administrative district centered on the town of Shamakhi within the Russian Empire’s Caucasian territories.
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A.
Baku Uyezd
Baku Uyezd was an administrative district centered on the city of Baku within the former Baku Governorate of the Russian Empire.
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B.
Baku Governorate
Baku Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire and later the early Soviet state, centered on the city of Baku in the South Caucasus region.
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C.
Shusha uezd
Shusha uezd was an administrative district of the Russian Empire’s Elisavetpol Governorate, centered on the historically significant city of Shusha in the South Caucasus.
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D.
Jevanshir uezd
Jevanshir uezd was an administrative district of the Russian Empire located in the South Caucasus within the Elisavetpol Governorate.
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E.
Lankaran Uyezd
Lankaran Uyezd was an administrative district of the Russian Empire located in the southern part of present-day Azerbaijan along the Caspian Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative district
ⓘ
uyezd ⓘ |
| administrativeHierarchyLevel | below governorate ⓘ |
| administrativeType | second-level administrative division ⓘ |
| borderedBy | other uyezds of Baku Governorate ⓘ |
| capital |
Shamakhi
ⓘ
linked to:
Shirvan
|
| country | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| dissolvedIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| governingEmpire | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| governorateCapital | Baku ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeCenter |
Shamakhi
ⓘ
linked to:
Shirvan
|
| hasUrbanCenter |
Shamakhi
ⓘ
linked to:
Shirvan
|
| historicalJurisdiction |
Russian Empire Caucasus Viceroyalty
ⓘ
linked to:
Caucasus Viceroyalty
|
| historicalRegion | Caucasus ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Caucasus
ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Azerbaijan ⓘ |
| locatedOn | territory of modern Azerbaijan ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Shamakhi
ⓘ
linked to:
Shirvan
|
| partOf |
Baku Governorate
ⓘ
Transcaucasia ⓘ
linked to:
South Caucasus
|
| status | former administrative unit ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ |
| usedLanguage |
Armenian
ⓘ
Azerbaijani ⓘ Lezgian ⓘ Russian ⓘ Tat ⓘ Tatar (Russian Empire census term) ⓘ |
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: Shamakhi Uyezd Description of subject: Shamakhi Uyezd was an administrative district centered on the town of Shamakhi within the Russian Empire’s Caucasian territories.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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