Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II
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Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II was a 19th-century Malay ruler of Perak whose contested succession and involvement in the Pangkor Treaty of 1874 marked a turning point in British colonial intervention in the Malay Peninsula.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8398292 — 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: Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II Context triple: [Pangkor Engagement of 1874, recognizedAsSultan, Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II]
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A.
Sultan Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah II
Sultan Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah II was a 19th-century Malay monarch who ruled the Riau-Lingga Sultanate, a successor state of the Johor-Riau empire in the Malay Archipelago.
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B.
Sultan Abdul Rahman Muazzam Shah III
Sultan Abdul Rahman Muazzam Shah III was the last sultan of the Riau-Lingga Sultanate, ruling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries until Dutch colonial authorities abolished the monarchy.
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C.
Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah
Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah is the reigning Sultan of the Malaysian state of Selangor, known for his active role in state affairs and promotion of cultural and religious harmony.
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D.
Sultan Ibrahim
Sultan Ibrahim was a historical Muslim ruler whose legacy is marked by a dedicated tomb that serves as his burial site.
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E.
Sultan Muhammad bin Miran Shah
Sultan Muhammad bin Miran Shah was a Timurid prince, the son of Miran Shah and a grandson of the empire’s founder Timur, who played a role in the internal dynastic struggles of the Timurid realm.
- 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: Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II Target entity description: Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II was a 19th-century Malay ruler of Perak whose contested succession and involvement in the Pangkor Treaty of 1874 marked a turning point in British colonial intervention in the Malay Peninsula.
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A.
Sultan Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah II
Sultan Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah II was a 19th-century Malay monarch who ruled the Riau-Lingga Sultanate, a successor state of the Johor-Riau empire in the Malay Archipelago.
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B.
Sultan Abdul Rahman Muazzam Shah III
Sultan Abdul Rahman Muazzam Shah III was the last sultan of the Riau-Lingga Sultanate, ruling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries until Dutch colonial authorities abolished the monarchy.
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C.
Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah
Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah is the reigning Sultan of the Malaysian state of Selangor, known for his active role in state affairs and promotion of cultural and religious harmony.
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D.
Sultan Ibrahim
Sultan Ibrahim was a historical Muslim ruler whose legacy is marked by a dedicated tomb that serves as his burial site.
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E.
Sultan Muhammad bin Miran Shah
Sultan Muhammad bin Miran Shah was a Timurid prince, the son of Miran Shah and a grandson of the empire’s founder Timur, who played a role in the internal dynastic struggles of the Timurid realm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Malay ruler
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British Resident system
ⓘ
J.W.W. Birch ⓘ Malay chiefs of Perak ⓘ Straits Settlements administration ⓘ
linked to:
Straits Settlements
|
| conflict |
Perak War
ⓘ
linked to:
Pangkor Engagement of 1874
|
| consequenceOf | British residential system in Perak ⓘ |
| country | Perak ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Malay ⓘ |
| exiledBy | British Empire ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
central to the events leading to the establishment of the Federated Malay States framework
ⓘ
key figure in transition from traditional Malay rule to British colonial administration in Perak ⓘ |
| house | Perak royal family ⓘ |
| impact |
contributed to expansion of British influence in the Malay States
ⓘ
marked beginning of formal British political control in Perak ⓘ |
| monarchOf |
Perak Sultanate
ⓘ
linked to:
Sultanate of Perak
|
| notableFor |
Pangkor Treaty of 1874
ⓘ
contested succession to the Perak throne ⓘ involvement in early British colonial intervention in the Malay Peninsula ⓘ |
| opposedBy | British colonial authorities ⓘ |
| partOf | history of British Malaya ⓘ |
| placeOfExile | Seychelles ⓘ |
| politicalStatusChange |
loss of effective sovereignty to British Resident system
ⓘ
recognition as Sultan of Perak under British protection ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Sultan of Perak ⓘ |
| predecessor | Sultan Ali Al-Mukammal Inayat Shah ⓘ |
| reasonForExile | implication in the assassination of J.W.W. Birch ⓘ |
| region | Malay Peninsula ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1877 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1874 ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | signatory of Pangkor Treaty of 1874 ⓘ |
| signed | Pangkor Treaty of 1874 ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Pangkor Treaty of 1874
ⓘ
Perak War ⓘ
linked to:
Pangkor Engagement of 1874
Perak succession dispute ⓘ assassination of J.W.W. Birch ⓘ |
| successor |
Sultan Yusuf Sharifuddin Muzaffar Shah
ⓘ
linked to:
Sultan Yussuf Izzuddin Shah
|
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: Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II Description of subject: Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II was a 19th-century Malay ruler of Perak whose contested succession and involvement in the Pangkor Treaty of 1874 marked a turning point in British colonial intervention in the Malay Peninsula.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.