Batu Sawar
E165427
Batu Sawar was a historically significant town in present-day Malaysia that served as an early political and administrative center of the Johor Sultanate after the fall of Malacca.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Batu Sawar canonical | 1 |
| Kota Tinggi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1443378 — 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: Batu Sawar Context triple: [Johor Sultanate, capital, Batu Sawar]
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Bantia
Bantia was an ancient Oscan-speaking city in southern Italy, notable for yielding important inscriptions that illuminate the Oscan language and Italic legal traditions.
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B.
Batu
Batu is a highland city in East Java, Indonesia, known for its cool climate, mountain scenery, and popular tourist attractions such as theme parks and apple orchards.
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Kertajaya
Kertajaya was a 13th-century king of the Kediri Kingdom in Java, remembered for his conflict with the emerging Singhasari kingdom and his role in the region’s political transition.
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D.
Mount Natib
Mount Natib is a prominent stratovolcano and one of the highest peaks in the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines, known for its forested slopes and surrounding protected landscape.
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E.
Tanjung Perak
Tanjung Perak is a major seaport in Surabaya, Indonesia, serving as one of the country’s principal maritime gateways for trade and passenger traffic.
- 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: Batu Sawar Target entity description: Batu Sawar was a historically significant town in present-day Malaysia that served as an early political and administrative center of the Johor Sultanate after the fall of Malacca.
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A.
Bantia
Bantia was an ancient Oscan-speaking city in southern Italy, notable for yielding important inscriptions that illuminate the Oscan language and Italic legal traditions.
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B.
Batu
Batu is a highland city in East Java, Indonesia, known for its cool climate, mountain scenery, and popular tourist attractions such as theme parks and apple orchards.
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C.
Kertajaya
Kertajaya was a 13th-century king of the Kediri Kingdom in Java, remembered for his conflict with the emerging Singhasari kingdom and his role in the region’s political transition.
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D.
Mount Natib
Mount Natib is a prominent stratovolcano and one of the highest peaks in the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines, known for its forested slopes and surrounding protected landscape.
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E.
Tanjung Perak
Tanjung Perak is a major seaport in Surabaya, Indonesia, serving as one of the country’s principal maritime gateways for trade and passenger traffic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former administrative center
ⓘ
historical town ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah II
ⓘ
linked to:
Alauddin Riayat Shah II
early Johor rulers ⓘ |
| civilization | Malay sultanate polity ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Malay world ⓘ |
| economyHistorically | riverine trade center ⓘ |
| emergedAfter | fall of Malacca to the Portuguese in 1511 ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | site of historical significance in Johor ⓘ |
| historicalEra | post-Malacca Sultanate period ⓘ |
| historicalRole | early capital of the Johor Sultanate ⓘ |
| languageUsedHistorically |
Classical Malay
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Malay
|
| linkedTo |
Malay-Johor maritime trade
ⓘ
Malay-Portuguese conflicts ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese conquest of Malacca
|
| locatedIn |
Johor
ⓘ
present-day Malaysia ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Johor River ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | histories of the Johor Sultanate ⓘ |
| partOf | Johor Sultanate ⓘ |
| politicalFunction |
royal residence of Johor rulers
ⓘ
seat of government of the Johor Sultanate ⓘ |
| region | Malay Peninsula ⓘ |
| religionHistorically | Islam ⓘ |
| servedAs |
administrative center of the Johor Sultanate
ⓘ
political center of the Johor Sultanate ⓘ |
| status | no longer a major urban center ⓘ |
| strategicFeature | inland river location for defense and trade ⓘ |
| successorSettlement | later Johor capitals such as Johor Lama ⓘ |
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: Batu Sawar Description of subject: Batu Sawar was a historically significant town in present-day Malaysia that served as an early political and administrative center of the Johor Sultanate after the fall of Malacca.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Batu Sawar