Yarkand Khanate
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The Yarkand Khanate was a 16th–17th century Turkic-Mongol state in Central Asia that ruled much of the Tarim Basin, including key Silk Road cities such as Kashgar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yarkand Khanate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4139799 — 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: Yarkand Khanate Context triple: [Kashgar, historicalAffiliation, Yarkand Khanate]
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A.
Kokand Khanate
The Kokand Khanate was an 18th–19th century Uzbek-ruled state in the Fergana Valley that became a major political and commercial center in Central Asia before its conquest by the Russian Empire.
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B.
Kara-Khanid Khanate
The Kara-Khanid Khanate was a medieval Turkic Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia, particularly Transoxiana and Kashgaria, between the 10th and 13th centuries.
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C.
Chagatai Khanate
The Chagatai Khanate was a Mongol and later Turkic-ruled khanate in Central Asia, formed from the lands of Genghis Khan’s son Chagatai and serving as a key successor state of the Mongol Empire.
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D.
Khanate of Khiva
The Khanate of Khiva was a Central Asian Turkic khanate centered around the oasis city of Khiva, which existed from the early 16th century until its incorporation into the Russian Empire in the late 19th century.
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E.
Kazakh Khanate
The Kazakh Khanate was a Turkic nomadic state that emerged in the 15th century on the Central Asian steppe and laid the political and cultural foundations of the Kazakh people.
- 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: Yarkand Khanate Target entity description: The Yarkand Khanate was a 16th–17th century Turkic-Mongol state in Central Asia that ruled much of the Tarim Basin, including key Silk Road cities such as Kashgar.
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A.
Kokand Khanate
The Kokand Khanate was an 18th–19th century Uzbek-ruled state in the Fergana Valley that became a major political and commercial center in Central Asia before its conquest by the Russian Empire.
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B.
Kara-Khanid Khanate
The Kara-Khanid Khanate was a medieval Turkic Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia, particularly Transoxiana and Kashgaria, between the 10th and 13th centuries.
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C.
Chagatai Khanate
The Chagatai Khanate was a Mongol and later Turkic-ruled khanate in Central Asia, formed from the lands of Genghis Khan’s son Chagatai and serving as a key successor state of the Mongol Empire.
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D.
Khanate of Khiva
The Khanate of Khiva was a Central Asian Turkic khanate centered around the oasis city of Khiva, which existed from the early 16th century until its incorporation into the Russian Empire in the late 19th century.
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E.
Kazakh Khanate
The Kazakh Khanate was a Turkic nomadic state that emerged in the 15th century on the Central Asian steppe and laid the political and cultural foundations of the Kazakh people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Yarkand Khanate Description of subject: The Yarkand Khanate was a 16th–17th century Turkic-Mongol state in Central Asia that ruled much of the Tarim Basin, including key Silk Road cities such as Kashgar.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.