Shah Alam II
E174729
Shah Alam II was an 18th-century Mughal emperor of India whose weakened reign saw the empire’s authority erode and British power expand following conflicts such as the Battle of Buxar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shah Alam II canonical | 30 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1456603 — 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: Shah Alam II Context triple: [Battle of Buxar, combatant, Shah Alam II]
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A.
Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II
Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II was a 16th-century Sultan of Johor known for consolidating the Johor Sultanate’s power in the Malay Peninsula following the fall of Malacca.
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B.
Azam Shah
Azam Shah was a Mughal prince and briefly a claimant to the imperial throne in late 17th-century India, known primarily as a son of Emperor Aurangzeb.
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C.
Parameswara
Parameswara was a 15th-century Sumatran prince who established the port city of Malacca, laying the foundations for one of Southeast Asia’s most important historical sultanates and trading hubs.
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D.
Tuanku Ja’afar
Tuanku Ja’afar was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia and a long-serving ruler of the state of Negeri Sembilan.
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E.
Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Alauddin Riayat Shah II was a 16th-century Malay ruler who became the first sultan of Johor after the fall of the Malacca Sultanate.
- 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: Shah Alam II Target entity description: Shah Alam II was an 18th-century Mughal emperor of India whose weakened reign saw the empire’s authority erode and British power expand following conflicts such as the Battle of Buxar.
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A.
Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II
Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II was a 16th-century Sultan of Johor known for consolidating the Johor Sultanate’s power in the Malay Peninsula following the fall of Malacca.
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B.
Azam Shah
Azam Shah was a Mughal prince and briefly a claimant to the imperial throne in late 17th-century India, known primarily as a son of Emperor Aurangzeb.
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C.
Parameswara
Parameswara was a 15th-century Sumatran prince who established the port city of Malacca, laying the foundations for one of Southeast Asia’s most important historical sultanates and trading hubs.
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D.
Tuanku Ja’afar
Tuanku Ja’afar was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia and a long-serving ruler of the state of Negeri Sembilan.
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E.
Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Alauddin Riayat Shah II was a 16th-century Malay ruler who became the first sultan of Johor after the fall of the Malacca Sultanate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Shah Alam II Description of subject: Shah Alam II was an 18th-century Mughal emperor of India whose weakened reign saw the empire’s authority erode and British power expand following conflicts such as the Battle of Buxar.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.