Muzaffar Shah I
E516538
Muzaffar Shah I was the founder and first sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate in western India, ruling in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Muzaffar Shah I canonical | 6 |
| Muzaffar Shah | 1 |
| Muzaffar Shah II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5371497 — 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: Muzaffar Shah I Context triple: [Ahmad Shah I, predecessor, Muzaffar Shah I]
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A.
Muzaffar Shah III
Muzaffar Shah III was the last sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate in western India, whose reign marked the final phase of the dynasty before its annexation by the Mughal Empire.
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B.
Alauddin Husain Shah
Alauddin Husain Shah was a prominent late 15th–early 16th century sultan of Bengal known for territorial expansion, administrative reforms, and fostering a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture.
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C.
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.
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D.
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah was a prominent late-14th-century sultan of Bengal known for consolidating the Bengal Sultanate’s power and fostering diplomatic and cultural ties, including with the Ming dynasty and Persian scholars.
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E.
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.
- 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: Muzaffar Shah I Target entity description: Muzaffar Shah I was the founder and first sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate in western India, ruling in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
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A.
Muzaffar Shah III
Muzaffar Shah III was the last sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate in western India, whose reign marked the final phase of the dynasty before its annexation by the Mughal Empire.
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B.
Alauddin Husain Shah
Alauddin Husain Shah was a prominent late 15th–early 16th century sultan of Bengal known for territorial expansion, administrative reforms, and fostering a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture.
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C.
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.
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D.
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah was a prominent late-14th-century sultan of Bengal known for consolidating the Bengal Sultanate’s power and fostering diplomatic and cultural ties, including with the Ming dynasty and Persian scholars.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim monarch
ⓘ
Sultan ⓘ founder of a dynasty ⓘ historical figure ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| allegiance | Delhi Sultanate ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign |
Anahilavada Patan
ⓘ
Sarkhej region (early Ahmadabad area) ⓘ |
| child | Ahmad Shah I ⓘ |
| conflict | struggles with Delhi Sultanate over Gujarat ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Gujarat Sultanate ⓘ |
| deathCountry | India ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Gujarat ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat
ⓘ
linked to:
Gujarat Sultanate
|
| era |
early 15th century
ⓘ
late 14th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Turkic ⓘ |
| founded | Gujarat Sultanate ⓘ |
| givenName |
Zafar Khan
ⓘ
linked to:
Zafar Khan Muzaffar
|
| governmentForm | sultanate ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | post-Tughlaq fragmentation in India ⓘ |
| languageOfAdministration | Persian ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt | Persian ⓘ |
| monarchOf | Gujarat ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | governor of Gujarat ⓘ |
| notableFor |
breaking away from the Delhi Sultanate
ⓘ
establishing independent Muslim rule in Gujarat ⓘ laying foundations of the Muzaffarid dynasty in Gujarat ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | independent ruler of Gujarat ⓘ |
| partOf | Islamic polities in medieval India ⓘ |
| patronage | Islamic institutions in Gujarat ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Sultan of Gujarat ⓘ |
| predecessorState | Delhi Sultanate rule in Gujarat ⓘ |
| region |
Gujarat
ⓘ
western India ⓘ |
| regnalName | Muzaffar Shah I ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| successor | Ahmad Shah I ⓘ |
| successorState |
Gujarat Sultanate under Ahmad Shah I
ⓘ
linked to:
Gujarat Sultanate
|
| title |
Sultan of Gujarat
ⓘ
Zafar Khan ⓘ
linked to:
Zafar Khan Muzaffar
|
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: Muzaffar Shah I Description of subject: Muzaffar Shah I was the founder and first sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate in western India, ruling in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Muzaffar Shah I
linked to: Muzaffar Shah I