Kingdom of Sunda
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The Kingdom of Sunda was a Hindu-Buddhist Sundanese kingdom that flourished in western Java from around the 7th to the 16th century, known for its port of Sunda Kelapa and its role in regional trade before falling to expanding Islamic sultanates.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kingdom of Sunda canonical | 4 |
| Sunda Kingdom | 3 |
| Galuh Kingdom | 1 |
| Kingdom of Pajajaran | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1877772 — 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: Kingdom of Sunda Context triple: [Pasundan, historicalKingdom, Kingdom of Sunda]
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A.
Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
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B.
Kediri Kingdom
The Kediri Kingdom was a powerful medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist state in eastern Java, renowned for its flourishing literature, trade, and cultural achievements.
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C.
Singhasari Kingdom
The Singhasari Kingdom was a 13th-century Hindu-Buddhist Javanese kingdom in East Java, Indonesia, known for its role in regional expansion and as a precursor to the Majapahit Empire.
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D.
Majapahit Empire
The Majapahit Empire was a powerful 13th–16th century Javanese thalassocratic kingdom that dominated much of maritime Southeast Asia and became a major center of regional trade, culture, and Hindu-Buddhist civilization.
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E.
Sultanate of Banten
The Sultanate of Banten was a powerful early modern Islamic trading kingdom in western Java that flourished as a major pepper port and regional maritime power in Southeast Asia.
- 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: Kingdom of Sunda Target entity description: The Kingdom of Sunda was a Hindu-Buddhist Sundanese kingdom that flourished in western Java from around the 7th to the 16th century, known for its port of Sunda Kelapa and its role in regional trade before falling to expanding Islamic sultanates.
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A.
Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
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B.
Kediri Kingdom
The Kediri Kingdom was a powerful medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist state in eastern Java, renowned for its flourishing literature, trade, and cultural achievements.
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C.
Singhasari Kingdom
The Singhasari Kingdom was a 13th-century Hindu-Buddhist Javanese kingdom in East Java, Indonesia, known for its role in regional expansion and as a precursor to the Majapahit Empire.
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D.
Majapahit Empire
The Majapahit Empire was a powerful 13th–16th century Javanese thalassocratic kingdom that dominated much of maritime Southeast Asia and became a major center of regional trade, culture, and Hindu-Buddhist civilization.
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E.
Sultanate of Banten
The Sultanate of Banten was a powerful early modern Islamic trading kingdom in western Java that flourished as a major pepper port and regional maritime power in Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu-Buddhist kingdom
ⓘ
Sundanese polity ⓘ historical kingdom ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Pajajaran ⓘ |
| archaeologicalEvidence |
Batujaya temple complex
ⓘ
Cibuaya site ⓘ |
| capital | Pakuan Pajajaran ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Parahyangan ⓘ |
| dissolvedInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| economy | regional trade ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sundanese people ⓘ |
| fellTo |
Banten Sultanate
ⓘ
linked to:
Sultanate of Banten
Cirebon Sultanate ⓘ expanding Islamic sultanates ⓘ |
| flourishedInCentury |
10th century
ⓘ
11th century ⓘ 12th century ⓘ 13th century ⓘ 14th century ⓘ 15th century ⓘ 7th century ⓘ 8th century ⓘ 9th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pepper trade
ⓘ
rice agriculture ⓘ |
| language | Old Sundanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Java
ⓘ
present-day Indonesia ⓘ western Java ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Portuguese sources
ⓘ
Sundanese chronicles ⓘ |
| modernLocation |
Banten
ⓘ
West Java ⓘ |
| notablePort | Sunda Kelapa ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | monarchy ⓘ |
| portCity | Sunda Kelapa ⓘ |
| regionType | mandala-style polity ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ |
| religiousCulture | Hindu-Buddhist syncretism ⓘ |
| successor |
Banten Sultanate
ⓘ
linked to:
Sultanate of Banten
Cirebon Sultanate ⓘ |
| titleOfRuler |
Maharaja
ⓘ
Prabu ⓘ |
| tradePartner |
Chinese traders
ⓘ
Indian Ocean traders ⓘ Majapahit ⓘ
linked to:
Majapahit Empire
Srivijaya ⓘ
linked to:
Srivijaya Empire
|
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: Kingdom of Sunda Description of subject: The Kingdom of Sunda was a Hindu-Buddhist Sundanese kingdom that flourished in western Java from around the 7th to the 16th century, known for its port of Sunda Kelapa and its role in regional trade before falling to expanding Islamic sultanates.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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