Maham Begum
E70021
Maham Begum was a chief consort of the Mughal emperor Babur and the mother of his successor, Humayun.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maham Begum canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T547166 — 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: Maham Begum Context triple: [Babur, spouse, Maham Begum]
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A.
Aisha Sultan Begum
Aisha Sultan Begum was a Timurid princess best known as one of the early wives of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire.
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B.
Gulbadan Begum
Gulbadan Begum was a Mughal princess and memoirist, best known for writing the Humayun-nama, an important historical account of her half-brother Emperor Humayun’s life and reign.
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C.
Shah Khanum
Shah Khanum was the grandmother of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal in the mid-18th century.
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D.
Qutlugh Nigar Khanum
Qutlugh Nigar Khanum was a Timurid princess and consort who became historically notable as the mother of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire.
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E.
Lutfunnisa Begum
Lutfunnisa Begum was a consort of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal in the mid-18th century.
- 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: Maham Begum Target entity description: Maham Begum was a chief consort of the Mughal emperor Babur and the mother of his successor, Humayun.
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A.
Aisha Sultan Begum
Aisha Sultan Begum was a Timurid princess best known as one of the early wives of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire.
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B.
Gulbadan Begum
Gulbadan Begum was a Mughal princess and memoirist, best known for writing the Humayun-nama, an important historical account of her half-brother Emperor Humayun’s life and reign.
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C.
Shah Khanum
Shah Khanum was the grandmother of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal in the mid-18th century.
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D.
Qutlugh Nigar Khanum
Qutlugh Nigar Khanum was a Timurid princess and consort who became historically notable as the mother of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire.
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E.
Lutfunnisa Begum
Lutfunnisa Begum was a consort of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal in the mid-18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mughal noblewoman
ⓘ
queen consort ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Babur’s court
ⓘ
Humayun’s succession ⓘ |
| child | Humayun ⓘ |
| consortOf | Babur ⓘ |
| country |
Mughal Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
|
| dynasty | Mughal dynasty ⓘ |
| era | early Mughal period ⓘ |
| floruit | early 16th century ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| husband | Babur ⓘ |
| languageOfRecord | Persian sources ⓘ |
| mother | Humayun ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being chief consort of the founder of the Mughal Empire
ⓘ
being the mother of the second Mughal emperor ⓘ |
| notableRole |
mother of the heir-apparent Humayun
ⓘ
queen consort of the Mughal Empire ⓘ |
| notableWork | patronage of Humayun’s education ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief consort of Babur ⓘ |
| relative |
Babur
ⓘ
Humayun ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| spouse | Babur ⓘ |
| title | Padshah Begum ⓘ |
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: Maham Begum Description of subject: Maham Begum was a chief consort of the Mughal emperor Babur and the mother of his successor, Humayun.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.