Güyük Khan
E391350
Güyük Khan was the third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, ruling briefly in the 1240s and known for consolidating Mongol authority while facing internal dynastic tensions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Güyük Khan canonical | 19 |
| Guyuk Khan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3227527 — 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: Güyük Khan Context triple: [Ögedei Khan, successor, Güyük Khan]
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A.
Külüg Khan
Külüg Khan was a Mongol emperor of the Yuan dynasty in China, known for his brief and financially troubled reign in the early 14th century.
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B.
Ugedei Khan
Ugedei Khan was the third son of Genghis Khan and the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, under whose rule the empire reached its greatest territorial extent in Eurasia.
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C.
Ögedei Khan
Ögedei Khan was the third son of Genghis Khan and the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, under whose rule the empire reached its greatest territorial extent into Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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D.
Hülegü Khan
Hülegü Khan was a 13th-century Mongol ruler and grandson of Genghis Khan who founded the Ilkhanate in Persia and led the conquest of Baghdad, ending the Abbasid Caliphate.
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E.
Orda Khan
Orda Khan was a 13th-century Mongol prince and military leader, the eldest son of Jochi and founder of the White Horde, who played a key role in the western campaigns of the Mongol Empire.
- 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: Güyük Khan Target entity description: Güyük Khan was the third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, ruling briefly in the 1240s and known for consolidating Mongol authority while facing internal dynastic tensions.
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A.
Külüg Khan
Külüg Khan was a Mongol emperor of the Yuan dynasty in China, known for his brief and financially troubled reign in the early 14th century.
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B.
Ugedei Khan
Ugedei Khan was the third son of Genghis Khan and the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, under whose rule the empire reached its greatest territorial extent in Eurasia.
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C.
Ögedei Khan
Ögedei Khan was the third son of Genghis Khan and the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, under whose rule the empire reached its greatest territorial extent into Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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D.
Hülegü Khan
Hülegü Khan was a 13th-century Mongol ruler and grandson of Genghis Khan who founded the Ilkhanate in Persia and led the conquest of Baghdad, ending the Abbasid Caliphate.
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E.
Orda Khan
Orda Khan was a 13th-century Mongol prince and military leader, the eldest son of Jochi and founder of the White Horde, who played a key role in the western campaigns of the Mongol Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
ⓘ
Mongol ruler ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Batu Khan
ⓘ
Töregene Khatun’s regency ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1206 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mongol imperial burial grounds (probable, exact location uncertain) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | sudden illness ⓘ |
| conflict | power struggle among Genghisid princes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1248 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Qum-Senggir ⓘ |
| dynasty | Borjigin ⓘ |
| era | 13th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mongol ⓘ |
| father | Ögedei Khan ⓘ |
| fullName | Güyük Khan ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Güyük ⓘ |
| grandfather | Genghis Khan ⓘ |
| house | House of Ögedei ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Mongolian ⓘ |
| militaryRole | Mongol commander in western campaigns before his accession ⓘ |
| mother | Töregene Khatun ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
conflict with Batu Khan
ⓘ
correspondence with Pope Innocent IV ⓘ election as Great Khan at the kurultai of 1246 ⓘ tensions within the Toluid and Ögedeid branches of the imperial family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
brief reign as third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
ⓘ
struggles with internal dynastic opposition ⓘ |
| notableWork | consolidation of Mongol imperial authority ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe
ⓘ
linked to:
Mongol invasions of Europe
|
| policy |
attempt to strengthen central authority of the Great Khan over regional princes
ⓘ
support for his mother Töregene Khatun’s regency faction ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Khan
|
| predecessor | Ögedei Khan ⓘ |
| realm | Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1248 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1246 ⓘ |
| religion | Tengrism ⓘ |
| sentLetterTo | Pope Innocent IV ⓘ |
| spouse |
Oghul Qaimish
ⓘ
linked to:
Oghul Khoimish
|
| successor | Möngke Khan ⓘ |
| title |
Great Khan
ⓘ
Khagan ⓘ
linked to:
Great Khan
|
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: Güyük Khan Description of subject: Güyük Khan was the third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, ruling briefly in the 1240s and known for consolidating Mongol authority while facing internal dynastic tensions.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Güyük Khan
subject linked to:
papal bull "Cum non solum"
subject linked to:
papal bull "Cum non solum"
subject linked to:
Mangu Khan
subject linked to:
Ugedei Khan
subject linked to:
Ugedei Khan