King Shah Zaman
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King Shah Zaman is a legendary ruler from the Middle Eastern collection of tales "One Thousand and One Nights," known primarily as the younger brother of King Shahryar whose marital betrayal helps set the stage for Scheherazade’s storytelling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Shah Zaman canonical | 1 |
| Shah Zaman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4176920 — 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: King Shah Zaman Context triple: [King Shahryar, brother, King Shah Zaman]
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A.
Sultan Quli Qutb-ul-Mulk
Sultan Quli Qutb-ul-Mulk was the Turkic military leader and statesman who became the first ruler of the Golconda Sultanate in the Deccan, establishing the Qutb Shahi dynasty in the early 16th century.
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B.
Muhammad Shah Rangila
Muhammad Shah Rangila was the Mughal emperor of India from 1719 to 1748, known for his cultural patronage, indulgent lifestyle, and the decline of imperial power during his reign.
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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.
Al-Sultan al-Azam
Al-Sultan al-Azam is an honorific royal title meaning "The Most Great Sultan," historically associated with the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
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E.
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.
- 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: King Shah Zaman Target entity description: King Shah Zaman is a legendary ruler from the Middle Eastern collection of tales "One Thousand and One Nights," known primarily as the younger brother of King Shahryar whose marital betrayal helps set the stage for Scheherazade’s storytelling.
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A.
Sultan Quli Qutb-ul-Mulk
Sultan Quli Qutb-ul-Mulk was the Turkic military leader and statesman who became the first ruler of the Golconda Sultanate in the Deccan, establishing the Qutb Shahi dynasty in the early 16th century.
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B.
Muhammad Shah Rangila
Muhammad Shah Rangila was the Mughal emperor of India from 1719 to 1748, known for his cultural patronage, indulgent lifestyle, and the decline of imperial power during his reign.
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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.
Al-Sultan al-Azam
Al-Sultan al-Azam is an honorific royal title meaning "The Most Great Sultan," historically associated with the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in One Thousand and One Nights
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ legendary king ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Arabian Nights
ⓘ
linked to:
The Arabian Nights
One Thousand and One Nights ⓘ
linked to:
The Arabian Nights
|
| associatedCharacter |
King Shahryar
ⓘ
Scheherazade ⓘ Shah Zaman’s unfaithful queen ⓘ Shahryar’s unfaithful queen ⓘ |
| birthOrderRelativeToShahryar | younger brother ⓘ |
| culture | Middle Eastern ⓘ |
| emotionalStateAfterBetrayal |
despair
ⓘ
grief ⓘ jealousy ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | legendary rather than historical ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influencedCharacterArcOf | King Shahryar ⓘ |
| keyEvent |
discovers his wife’s adultery
ⓘ
kills his unfaithful wife ⓘ travels to visit his brother King Shahryar ⓘ witnesses Shahryar’s wife committing adultery ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the younger brother of King Shahryar
ⓘ
his wife’s betrayal that precedes Scheherazade’s tales ⓘ |
| languageOfEarliestTexts | Arabic ⓘ |
| literaryTradition |
Arabic literature
ⓘ
Persian-influenced narrative tradition ⓘ |
| maritalStatusAtStoryStart | married ⓘ |
| medium | prose literature ⓘ |
| name |
Shah Zaman
ⓘ
linked to:
King Shah Zaman
|
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for Shahryar’s misanthropy
ⓘ
helps set the stage for Scheherazade’s storytelling ⓘ |
| occupation | king ⓘ |
| partOf | frame story of One Thousand and One Nights ⓘ |
| relative | King Shahryar ⓘ |
| roleInFrameStory | co-protagonist of the opening frame ⓘ |
| settingRegion | a fictional Middle Eastern kingdom ⓘ |
| sibling | King Shahryar ⓘ |
| spouseStatus | unfaithful wife ⓘ |
| storyType | frame narrative character ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
betrayal
ⓘ
marital infidelity ⓘ misogyny in reaction to betrayal ⓘ |
| title | King ⓘ |
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: King Shah Zaman Description of subject: King Shah Zaman is a legendary ruler from the Middle Eastern collection of tales "One Thousand and One Nights," known primarily as the younger brother of King Shahryar whose marital betrayal helps set the stage for Scheherazade’s storytelling.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: King Shah Zaman