Najm-ud-Daulah
E163219
Najm-ud-Daulah was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal who succeeded his father Mir Jafar under the dominance of the British East India Company.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Najm-ud-Daulah canonical | 4 |
| Najm-ud-Daula | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1418106 — 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: Najm-ud-Daulah Context triple: [Mir Jafar, child, Najm-ud-Daulah]
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A.
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim, better known by his regnal name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal emperor of India, renowned for his patronage of the arts and relatively liberal, if often indulgent, rule in the early 17th century.
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B.
Bairam Khan
Bairam Khan was a prominent 16th-century Mughal statesman and military commander who served as regent and chief mentor to the young Emperor Akbar, playing a crucial role in consolidating Mughal rule in India.
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C.
Mirak Mirza Ghiyas
Mirak Mirza Ghiyas was a Persian architect of the Mughal era, best known for introducing grand Persian garden-tomb design to India.
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D.
Abdul Bahram Khan
Abdul Bahram Khan was a Pashtun landowner and influential tribal leader in the North-West Frontier region, best known as the father of Indian independence activist Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
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E.
Ibrahim Lodi
Ibrahim Lodi was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate’s Lodi dynasty, whose defeat by Babur at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 marked the beginning of Mughal rule in India.
- 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: Najm-ud-Daulah Target entity description: Najm-ud-Daulah was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal who succeeded his father Mir Jafar under the dominance of the British East India Company.
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A.
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim, better known by his regnal name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal emperor of India, renowned for his patronage of the arts and relatively liberal, if often indulgent, rule in the early 17th century.
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B.
Bairam Khan
Bairam Khan was a prominent 16th-century Mughal statesman and military commander who served as regent and chief mentor to the young Emperor Akbar, playing a crucial role in consolidating Mughal rule in India.
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C.
Mirak Mirza Ghiyas
Mirak Mirza Ghiyas was a Persian architect of the Mughal era, best known for introducing grand Persian garden-tomb design to India.
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D.
Abdul Bahram Khan
Abdul Bahram Khan was a Pashtun landowner and influential tribal leader in the North-West Frontier region, best known as the father of Indian independence activist Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
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E.
Ibrahim Lodi
Ibrahim Lodi was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate’s Lodi dynasty, whose defeat by Babur at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 marked the beginning of Mughal rule in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nawab
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| country | Bengal Subah ⓘ |
| deathCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| employer | British East India Company ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bengali Muslims ⓘ |
| father | Mir Jafar ⓘ |
| governmentTypeDuringReign | British East India Company dominance ⓘ |
| historicalEra | 18th century India ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a puppet ruler under British East India Company influence
ⓘ
succession to the Nawabship of Bengal after Mir Jafar ⓘ |
| partOf |
Nawab dynasty of Bengal
ⓘ
linked to:
Dhaka Nawab family
|
| positionHeld | Nawab of Bengal ⓘ |
| predecessor | Mir Jafar ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Bengal
ⓘ
Bihar ⓘ Orissa ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1766 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1765 ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Murshidabad ⓘ |
| successor |
Syed Najaf Ali Khan
ⓘ
linked to:
Najaf Ali Khan
|
| title |
Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa
ⓘ
linked to:
Nawab of Bengal
|
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: Najm-ud-Daulah Description of subject: Najm-ud-Daulah was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal who succeeded his father Mir Jafar under the dominance of the British East India Company.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.