Mir Ja‘far
E634713
Mir Ja‘far was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal best known for his role in aiding the British East India Company’s rise to power in India, particularly through his involvement in the Battle of Plassey.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mir Jafar | 2 |
| Mir Ja‘far canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6964868 — 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: Mir Ja‘far Context triple: [Mir Muhammad Jafar Ali Khan, alsoKnownAs, Mir Ja‘far]
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A.
Najaf al-Ashraf
Najaf al-Ashraf is the honorific name for the Iraqi city of Najaf, one of Shia Islam’s holiest centers and the site of the Imam Ali Shrine.
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B.
Jafar al-Askari
Jafar al-Askari was an Iraqi military officer and statesman who played a key role in the Arab Revolt and later served as one of the early prime ministers of Iraq.
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C.
Abu’l-Faraj
Abu’l-Faraj is the honorific name (kunya) of the prominent 12th-century Hanbali scholar, preacher, and historian Ibn al-Jawzi of Baghdad.
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D.
Fazl
Fazl is the given name of Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, a 19th-century Indian Islamic scholar, philosopher, and prominent figure in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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E.
Ja'far ibn Yahya
Ja'far ibn Yahya was a historical Abbasid vizier who appears as a wise and prominent character in several tales of the One Thousand and One Nights.
- 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: Mir Ja‘far Target entity description: Mir Ja‘far was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal best known for his role in aiding the British East India Company’s rise to power in India, particularly through his involvement in the Battle of Plassey.
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A.
Najaf al-Ashraf
Najaf al-Ashraf is the honorific name for the Iraqi city of Najaf, one of Shia Islam’s holiest centers and the site of the Imam Ali Shrine.
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B.
Jafar al-Askari
Jafar al-Askari was an Iraqi military officer and statesman who played a key role in the Arab Revolt and later served as one of the early prime ministers of Iraq.
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C.
Abu’l-Faraj
Abu’l-Faraj is the honorific name (kunya) of the prominent 12th-century Hanbali scholar, preacher, and historian Ibn al-Jawzi of Baghdad.
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D.
Fazl
Fazl is the given name of Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, a 19th-century Indian Islamic scholar, philosopher, and prominent figure in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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E.
Ja'far ibn Yahya
Ja'far ibn Yahya was a historical Abbasid vizier who appears as a wise and prominent character in several tales of the One Thousand and One Nights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nawab of Bengal
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| ally |
British East India Company
ⓘ
Robert Clive ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British colonial expansion in India
ⓘ
East India Company rule in Bengal ⓘ
linked to:
British conquest of Bengal
|
| consequenceOfActions |
contributed to the expansion of British rule in India
ⓘ
facilitated British political control in Bengal ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfRule | Bengal Subah ⓘ |
| fullName | Mir Muhammad Ja‘far Khan ⓘ |
| givenName |
Ja‘far
ⓘ
linked to:
Jaʿfar
|
| governmentForm | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | viewed by many Indian historians as a traitor ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Mir ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Persian ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Battle of Plassey ⓘ |
| name | Mir Ja‘far ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aiding the British East India Company’s rise to power in India
ⓘ
being installed as Nawab of Bengal with British support ⓘ role in the Battle of Plassey ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
ⓘ
ruler ⓘ |
| opponent | Siraj ud-Daulah ⓘ |
| politicalEntity |
Mughal Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
|
| positionHeld | Nawab of Bengal ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Bengal
ⓘ
Mughal India ⓘ
linked to:
Mughal period
|
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | conspired with the British against Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| title | Nawab ⓘ |
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: Mir Ja‘far Description of subject: Mir Ja‘far was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal best known for his role in aiding the British East India Company’s rise to power in India, particularly through his involvement in the Battle of Plassey.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.