Selim I
E21410
Selim I was a 16th-century Ottoman sultan who dramatically expanded the empire by conquering the Mamluk Sultanate and bringing the holy cities of Mecca and Medina under Ottoman control.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selim I canonical | 35 |
| Yavuz Sultan Selim | 3 |
| Selim | 1 |
| Selim the Grim | 1 |
| reign of Selim I | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T151387 — 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: Selim I Context triple: [Ottoman Empire, notableRuler, Selim I]
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A.
Murad I
Murad I was a 14th-century Ottoman sultan who significantly expanded Ottoman territories in the Balkans and Anatolia, laying key foundations for the empire’s rise.
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B.
Mehmed II
Mehmed II, also known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was the Ottoman sultan who captured Constantinople in 1453 and transformed the empire into a major regional power.
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C.
Bayezid I
Bayezid I was a late 14th-century Ottoman sultan known for rapidly expanding the empire into the Balkans and Anatolia before his defeat and capture by Timur at the Battle of Ankara.
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D.
Osman I
Osman I was the founder and first ruler of the Ottoman dynasty, which grew into one of history’s most powerful empires.
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E.
Orhan
Orhan was the second ruler of the early Ottoman state who significantly expanded its territories in northwestern Anatolia and laid foundations for its future imperial structure.
- 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: Selim I Target entity description: Selim I was a 16th-century Ottoman sultan who dramatically expanded the empire by conquering the Mamluk Sultanate and bringing the holy cities of Mecca and Medina under Ottoman control.
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A.
Murad I
Murad I was a 14th-century Ottoman sultan who significantly expanded Ottoman territories in the Balkans and Anatolia, laying key foundations for the empire’s rise.
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B.
Mehmed II
Mehmed II, also known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was the Ottoman sultan who captured Constantinople in 1453 and transformed the empire into a major regional power.
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C.
Bayezid I
Bayezid I was a late 14th-century Ottoman sultan known for rapidly expanding the empire into the Balkans and Anatolia before his defeat and capture by Timur at the Battle of Ankara.
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D.
Osman I
Osman I was the founder and first ruler of the Ottoman dynasty, which grew into one of history’s most powerful empires.
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E.
Orhan
Orhan was the second ruler of the early Ottoman state who significantly expanded its territories in northwestern Anatolia and laid foundations for its future imperial structure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Selim I Description of subject: Selim I was a 16th-century Ottoman sultan who dramatically expanded the empire by conquering the Mamluk Sultanate and bringing the holy cities of Mecca and Medina under Ottoman control.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Selim I
linked to: Selim I
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subject linked to:
M. Hakan Kiran
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subject linked to:
German battlecruiser Goeben
linked to: Selim I