Pajang Sultanate
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The Pajang Sultanate was a short-lived 16th-century Javanese Islamic kingdom that emerged in central Java after the decline of the Demak Sultanate and served as a precursor to the powerful Mataram Sultanate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pajang Sultanate canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3390887 — 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: Pajang Sultanate Context triple: [Demak Sultanate, successorState, Pajang Sultanate]
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A.
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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B.
Demak Sultanate
The Demak Sultanate was the first major Islamic kingdom on the island of Java, emerging in the late 15th century as a powerful coastal trading state that helped spread Islam throughout the region.
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C.
Yogyakarta Sultanate
The Yogyakarta Sultanate is a historic Javanese monarchy in central Java that continues today as a culturally influential royal institution with special autonomous status within Indonesia.
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D.
Pasai Sultanate
The Pasai Sultanate was an early Islamic kingdom on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional trading hub and a key center for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
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E.
Mataram Sultanate
The Mataram Sultanate was a powerful Islamic kingdom that dominated much of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, shaping the island’s political and cultural history.
- 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: Pajang Sultanate Target entity description: The Pajang Sultanate was a short-lived 16th-century Javanese Islamic kingdom that emerged in central Java after the decline of the Demak Sultanate and served as a precursor to the powerful Mataram Sultanate.
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A.
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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B.
Demak Sultanate
The Demak Sultanate was the first major Islamic kingdom on the island of Java, emerging in the late 15th century as a powerful coastal trading state that helped spread Islam throughout the region.
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C.
Yogyakarta Sultanate
The Yogyakarta Sultanate is a historic Javanese monarchy in central Java that continues today as a culturally influential royal institution with special autonomous status within Indonesia.
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D.
Pasai Sultanate
The Pasai Sultanate was an early Islamic kingdom on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional trading hub and a key center for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
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E.
Mataram Sultanate
The Mataram Sultanate was a powerful Islamic kingdom that dominated much of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, shaping the island’s political and cultural history.
- 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: Pajang Sultanate Description of subject: The Pajang Sultanate was a short-lived 16th-century Javanese Islamic kingdom that emerged in central Java after the decline of the Demak Sultanate and served as a precursor to the powerful Mataram Sultanate.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.