Ashraf Hotak
E362861
Ashraf Hotak was an Afghan ruler of the Hotak dynasty who briefly reigned as Shah of Persia in the early 18th century before being overthrown by Nader Shah.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ashraf Hotak canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3264037 — 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: Ashraf Hotak Context triple: [Nader Shah, defeated, Ashraf Hotak]
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A.
Mahmud Hotak
Mahmud Hotak was an early 18th-century Afghan ruler who led the Hotak dynasty in overthrowing the Safavid Empire and briefly ruling Persia.
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B.
Mirwais Hotak
Mirwais Hotak was an Afghan tribal leader and revolutionary who led a successful uprising against Safavid Persian rule and established an independent Afghan state in the early 18th century.
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C.
Ismail Khan
Ismail Khan is an Afghan mujahideen leader and former governor of Herat, known for his prominent role as a commander during the Soviet–Afghan War and later conflicts in Afghanistan.
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D.
Timur Shah Durrani
Timur Shah Durrani was an 18th-century Afghan monarch who succeeded Ahmad Shah Durrani and presided over the Durrani Empire during a period of internal fragmentation and regional challenges.
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E.
Nader Shah
Nader Shah was an 18th-century Persian ruler and military conqueror who founded the Afsharid dynasty and briefly restored Iran as a major regional power through his campaigns across the Middle East and India.
- 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: Ashraf Hotak Target entity description: Ashraf Hotak was an Afghan ruler of the Hotak dynasty who briefly reigned as Shah of Persia in the early 18th century before being overthrown by Nader Shah.
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A.
Mahmud Hotak
Mahmud Hotak was an early 18th-century Afghan ruler who led the Hotak dynasty in overthrowing the Safavid Empire and briefly ruling Persia.
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B.
Mirwais Hotak
Mirwais Hotak was an Afghan tribal leader and revolutionary who led a successful uprising against Safavid Persian rule and established an independent Afghan state in the early 18th century.
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C.
Ismail Khan
Ismail Khan is an Afghan mujahideen leader and former governor of Herat, known for his prominent role as a commander during the Soviet–Afghan War and later conflicts in Afghanistan.
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D.
Timur Shah Durrani
Timur Shah Durrani was an 18th-century Afghan monarch who succeeded Ahmad Shah Durrani and presided over the Durrani Empire during a period of internal fragmentation and regional challenges.
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E.
Nader Shah
Nader Shah was an 18th-century Persian ruler and military conqueror who founded the Afsharid dynasty and briefly restored Iran as a major regional power through his campaigns across the Middle East and India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
monarch ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Kandahar ⓘ |
| causeOfEndOfReign |
military defeat
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overthrow by Nader Shah ⓘ |
| conflict |
Nader Shah's army
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Safavid loyalist forces ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1730 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Sistan ⓘ |
| dynasty | Hotak dynasty ⓘ |
| era | early 18th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Pashtun ⓘ |
| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| house | Hotak dynasty ⓘ |
| name | Ashraf Hotak ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being defeated by Nader Shah
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conflict with the Safavid loyalists ⓘ leading the Hotak Afghan rule over Persia ⓘ |
| opponent | Nader Shah ⓘ |
| overthrownBy | Nader Shah ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Shah of Persia
ⓘ
linked to:
Shah
ruler of the Hotak dynasty ⓘ |
| predecessor | Mahmud Hotak ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Afghanistan
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Iran ⓘ Persia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1729 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1725 ⓘ |
| relative | Mahmud Hotak ⓘ |
| religion | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| successor | Tahmasp II ⓘ |
| title | Ashraf Shah ⓘ |
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: Ashraf Hotak Description of subject: Ashraf Hotak was an Afghan ruler of the Hotak dynasty who briefly reigned as Shah of Persia in the early 18th century before being overthrown by Nader Shah.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.