Sunan
E508585
Sunan is an honorific royal title historically used for the rulers of the Mataram Sultanate in Java, Indonesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5274900 — 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: Sunan Context triple: [Mataram Sultanate, titleOfRuler, Sunan]
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A.
Arinori
Arinori was a given name of Mori Arinori, a prominent Meiji-era Japanese statesman and reformer known for modernizing Japan’s education system.
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B.
Gondi
Gondi is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Gondi people in central India, especially across parts of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and neighboring regions.
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C.
Michinaga
Michinaga is the given name of Fujiwara no Michinaga, a powerful Heian-period Japanese court noble who dominated imperial politics at the height of the Fujiwara clan’s influence.
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D.
Kuruntokai
Kuruntokai is an ancient Tamil anthology of classical love poetry, belonging to the Sangam literary corpus.
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E.
Usa Jingū
Usa Jingū is a prominent Shinto shrine in Ōita Prefecture, Japan, revered as the principal sanctuary of the war and guardian deity Hachiman and a historically important religious center.
- 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: Sunan Target entity description: Sunan is an honorific royal title historically used for the rulers of the Mataram Sultanate in Java, Indonesia.
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A.
Arinori
Arinori was a given name of Mori Arinori, a prominent Meiji-era Japanese statesman and reformer known for modernizing Japan’s education system.
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B.
Gondi
Gondi is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Gondi people in central India, especially across parts of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and neighboring regions.
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C.
Michinaga
Michinaga is the given name of Fujiwara no Michinaga, a powerful Heian-period Japanese court noble who dominated imperial politics at the height of the Fujiwara clan’s influence.
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D.
Kuruntokai
Kuruntokai is an ancient Tamil anthology of classical love poetry, belonging to the Sangam literary corpus.
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E.
Usa Jingū
Usa Jingū is a prominent Shinto shrine in Ōita Prefecture, Japan, revered as the principal sanctuary of the war and guardian deity Hachiman and a historically important religious center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Javanese title
ⓘ
honorific ⓘ royal title ⓘ |
| associatedWithPolity | Mataram Sultanate ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
Central Java
ⓘ
linked to:
Java
Yogyakarta region ⓘ
linked to:
Special Region of Yogyakarta
|
| contrastedWith |
Sultan (as a different royal style)
ⓘ
linked to:
Sultan
|
| etymologyRelatedTo | Arabic honorific forms ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Javanese culture ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | symbol of sacred kingship in Java ⓘ |
| hasGenderAssociation | male rulers ⓘ |
| hasReligiousContext | Islam in Java ⓘ |
| hasStatus | high-prestige title ⓘ |
| hasTitleForm |
Sunan Amangkurat
ⓘ
Sunan Mangkurat ⓘ Sunan Pakubuwana ⓘ |
| isHonorificFor |
Islamic-leaning kingship in Java
ⓘ
sovereign authority ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Javanese royal titulature system ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Javanese language ⓘ |
| precedesPersonalName | Javanese monarchs of Mataram ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfUse | early modern period in Java ⓘ |
| usedAsTitleFor |
Javanese kings
ⓘ
Javanese sultans ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Javanese royalty
ⓘ
rulers of the Mataram Sultanate ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Java ⓘ |
| usedInCourtTradition |
Mataram royal court
ⓘ
linked to:
Medang royal court
|
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: Sunan Description of subject: Sunan is an honorific royal title historically used for the rulers of the Mataram Sultanate in Java, Indonesia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.