Shuja-ud-Daula
E186024
Shuja-ud-Daula was the Nawab of Awadh in the mid-18th century, known for his significant role in North Indian politics and his alliance against the British East India Company.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shuja-ud-Daula canonical | 16 |
| Nawab of Awadh Shuja-ud-Daula | 1 |
| Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh | 1 |
| Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1456604 — 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: Shuja-ud-Daula Context triple: [Battle of Buxar, combatant, Shuja-ud-Daula]
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A.
Siraj ud-Daulah
Siraj ud-Daulah was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, whose defeat by the British East India Company at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 marked a key turning point in the establishment of British rule in India.
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B.
Najm-ud-Daulah
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Wajid Ali Shah
Wajid Ali Shah was the last Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), known for his patronage of arts, music, and dance, and for his controversial deposition and exile by the British in 1856.
- 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: Shuja-ud-Daula Target entity description: Shuja-ud-Daula was the Nawab of Awadh in the mid-18th century, known for his significant role in North Indian politics and his alliance against the British East India Company.
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A.
Siraj ud-Daulah
Siraj ud-Daulah was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, whose defeat by the British East India Company at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 marked a key turning point in the establishment of British rule in India.
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B.
Najm-ud-Daulah
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Wajid Ali Shah
Wajid Ali Shah was the last Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), known for his patronage of arts, music, and dance, and for his controversial deposition and exile by the British in 1856.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Shuja-ud-Daula Description of subject: Shuja-ud-Daula was the Nawab of Awadh in the mid-18th century, known for his significant role in North Indian politics and his alliance against the British East India Company.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mughal emperor Shah Alam II
subject linked to:
Mughal emperor Shah Alam II
linked to: Shuja-ud-Daula
linked to: Shuja-ud-Daula
linked to: Shuja-ud-Daula