Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah
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Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah was the last ruler of the Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, known for his weak rule and eventual abdication in favor of Bahlul Lodi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3585249 — 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: Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah Context triple: [Bahlul Lodi, predecessor, Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah]
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A.
Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Alauddin Riayat Shah II was a 16th-century Malay ruler who became the first sultan of Johor after the fall of the Malacca Sultanate.
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B.
Azam Shah
Azam Shah was a Mughal prince and briefly a claimant to the imperial throne in late 17th-century India, known primarily as a son of Emperor Aurangzeb.
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C.
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah was the 14th-century founder of the independent Sultanate of Bengal and the first ruler to unify its territories under a single Muslim dynasty.
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D.
Zaman Shah
Zaman Shah was an 18th-century Durrani ruler of Afghanistan, known for his attempts to expand Afghan influence into the Indian subcontinent.
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E.
Hussain Shah Wali
Hussain Shah Wali was a Sufi saint and architect associated with the Qutb Shahi dynasty, best known for his role in developing the region around present-day Hyderabad in 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: Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah Target entity description: Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah was the last ruler of the Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, known for his weak rule and eventual abdication in favor of Bahlul Lodi.
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A.
Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Alauddin Riayat Shah II was a 16th-century Malay ruler who became the first sultan of Johor after the fall of the Malacca Sultanate.
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B.
Azam Shah
Azam Shah was a Mughal prince and briefly a claimant to the imperial throne in late 17th-century India, known primarily as a son of Emperor Aurangzeb.
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C.
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah was the 14th-century founder of the independent Sultanate of Bengal and the first ruler to unify its territories under a single Muslim dynasty.
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D.
Zaman Shah
Zaman Shah was an 18th-century Durrani ruler of Afghanistan, known for his attempts to expand Afghan influence into the Indian subcontinent.
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E.
Hussain Shah Wali
Hussain Shah Wali was a Sufi saint and architect associated with the Qutb Shahi dynasty, best known for his role in developing the region around present-day Hyderabad in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sayyid dynasty ruler
ⓘ
Sultan of Delhi ⓘ historical figure ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| abdicatedInFavorOf | Bahlul Lodi ⓘ |
| causeOfDynasticEnd | abdication ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 15th century ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Delhi Sultanate ⓘ |
| endOfDynasty | Sayyid dynasty ⓘ |
| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| knownFor |
abdication of the throne
ⓘ
being the last ruler of the Sayyid dynasty ⓘ weak rule ⓘ |
| lostPowerTo | Lodi dynasty ⓘ |
| memberOfDynasty | Sayyid dynasty ⓘ |
| monarchOf | Delhi ⓘ |
| partOf | late Delhi Sultanate period ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | last Sayyid sultan of Delhi ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Sultan of Delhi ⓘ |
| predecessor | Muhammad Shah ⓘ |
| regionOfRule |
North India
ⓘ
linked to:
northern India
|
| reignEnd | c. 1451 ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 1445 ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| seatOfPower | Delhi ⓘ |
| succeededByDynasty | Lodi dynasty ⓘ |
| successor | Bahlul Lodi ⓘ |
| title |
Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah
ⓘ
Sultan ⓘ |
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: Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah Description of subject: Ala-ud-Din Alam Shah was the last ruler of the Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, known for his weak rule and eventual abdication in favor of Bahlul Lodi.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.