Great Khan
E69977
The Great Khan was the supreme ruler of the Mongol Empire, holding ultimate authority over all Mongol khanates and conquests.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Khan of the Mongol Empire | 14 |
| Great Khan canonical | 10 |
| Khagan | 10 |
| Great Khan of the Mongols | 5 |
| Great Khan (in the western ulus) | 1 |
| Great Khan (nominally) | 1 |
| Mongol khans | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T531557 — 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: Great Khan Context triple: [Mongols, politicalTitle, Great Khan]
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A.
Batu Khan
Batu Khan was a 13th-century Mongol ruler and military commander who founded the Golden Horde and led the Mongol invasions of Eastern Europe.
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B.
Hülegü Khan
Hülegü Khan was a 13th-century Mongol ruler and grandson of Genghis Khan who founded the Ilkhanate in Persia and led the conquest of Baghdad, ending the Abbasid Caliphate.
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C.
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan was the 13th-century Mongol emperor who founded China’s Yuan dynasty and presided over one of the largest empires in history.
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D.
Ögedei Khan
Ögedei Khan was the third son of Genghis Khan and the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, under whose rule the empire reached its greatest territorial extent into Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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E.
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous land empire in history through his military conquests and unification of the Mongol tribes.
- 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: Great Khan Target entity description: The Great Khan was the supreme ruler of the Mongol Empire, holding ultimate authority over all Mongol khanates and conquests.
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A.
Batu Khan
Batu Khan was a 13th-century Mongol ruler and military commander who founded the Golden Horde and led the Mongol invasions of Eastern Europe.
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B.
Hülegü Khan
Hülegü Khan was a 13th-century Mongol ruler and grandson of Genghis Khan who founded the Ilkhanate in Persia and led the conquest of Baghdad, ending the Abbasid Caliphate.
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C.
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan was the 13th-century Mongol emperor who founded China’s Yuan dynasty and presided over one of the largest empires in history.
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D.
Ögedei Khan
Ögedei Khan was the third son of Genghis Khan and the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, under whose rule the empire reached its greatest territorial extent into Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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E.
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous land empire in history through his military conquests and unification of the Mongol tribes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
imperial title
ⓘ
monarchical title ⓘ sovereign ruler ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| country | Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| endTime | 14th century ⓘ |
| equivalentTitle |
Great Khagan
ⓘ
Khagan ⓘ
linked to:
Great Khan
Qaʾan ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Emperor of the Yuan dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan dynasty
|
| hasAuthorityOver |
Chagatai Khanate
ⓘ
Golden Horde ⓘ Ilkhanate ⓘ
linked to:
Mongol Ilkhanate
Mongol-ruled Central Asia ⓘ Mongol-ruled China ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan dynasty
Mongol-ruled Persia ⓘ
linked to:
Mongol Ilkhanate
|
| hasPart |
authority over all Mongol khanates
ⓘ
control of imperial administration ⓘ right to appoint subordinate khans ⓘ right to distribute conquered territories ⓘ supreme command of Mongol armies ⓘ ultimate judicial authority ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
13th century
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14th century ⓘ |
| inception | 1206 ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Classical Mongolian
ⓘ
linked to:
Classical Mongolian script
Mongolian language ⓘ
linked to:
Mongolic languages
|
| notableHolder |
Genghis Khan
ⓘ
Kublai Khan ⓘ |
| positionHeldBy |
Buyantu Khan
ⓘ
Gegeen Khan ⓘ Genghis Khan ⓘ Güyük Khan ⓘ Kublai Khan ⓘ Külüg Khan ⓘ Möngke Khan ⓘ Rinchinbal Khan ⓘ Temür Khan ⓘ Toghon Temür ⓘ Tugh Temür ⓘ Yesün Temür ⓘ Ögedei Khan ⓘ |
| seatOfGovernment |
Karakorum
ⓘ
Khanbaliq ⓘ |
| startTime | 1206 ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Khan
ⓘ
emperor ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Borjigin dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan dynasty
Mongol Empire ⓘ Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
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: Great Khan Description of subject: The Great Khan was the supreme ruler of the Mongol Empire, holding ultimate authority over all Mongol khanates and conquests.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Mongol
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subject linked to:
papal bull "Cum non solum"
subject linked to:
papal bull "Cum non solum"
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subject linked to:
Mongol Empire administration (historically)
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Mangu Khan
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Mangu Khan
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subject linked to:
Ugedei Khan
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