Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah
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Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah was the final sultan of the short-lived Madurai Sultanate in South India, whose reign marked the end of Muslim rule in that region before its reconquest by the Vijayanagara Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8614764 — 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: Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah Context triple: [Madurai Sultanate, lastRuler, Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah]
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A.
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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B.
Sikandar Shah
Sikandar Shah was a prominent medieval ruler of Bengal from the Ilyas Shahi dynasty, known for consolidating the sultanate’s power and patronizing architecture and culture.
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C.
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.
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D.
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah was the last sultan of the independent Bengal Sultanate, ruling in the early 16th century before its conquest by the Mughal Empire.
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E.
Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Alauddin Riayat Shah II was a 16th-century Malay ruler who became the first sultan of Johor after the fall of the Malacca Sultanate.
- 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: Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah Target entity description: Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah was the final sultan of the short-lived Madurai Sultanate in South India, whose reign marked the end of Muslim rule in that region before its reconquest by the Vijayanagara Empire.
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A.
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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B.
Sikandar Shah
Sikandar Shah was a prominent medieval ruler of Bengal from the Ilyas Shahi dynasty, known for consolidating the sultanate’s power and patronizing architecture and culture.
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C.
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.
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D.
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah was the last sultan of the independent Bengal Sultanate, ruling in the early 16th century before its conquest by the Mughal Empire.
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E.
Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Alauddin Riayat Shah II was a 16th-century Malay ruler who became the first sultan of Johor after the fall of the Malacca Sultanate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Historical figure
ⓘ
Sultan ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
End of the Madurai Sultanate
ⓘ
Expansion of Vijayanagara Empire into Tamil region ⓘ |
| country | Madurai Sultanate ⓘ |
| dynasty | Madurai Sultanate rulers ⓘ |
| endOfReignConsequence | Incorporation of Madurai region into Vijayanagara Empire ⓘ |
| ethnicContext | Muslim ruling elite in South India ⓘ |
| governmentForm | Monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Late medieval period ⓘ |
| languageContext | Persianate court culture of Deccan and South Indian sultanates ⓘ |
| notableFor | His reign marked the end of Muslim rule in Madurai region ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | Last independent Muslim ruler of Madurai region ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Sultan of the Madurai Sultanate
ⓘ
linked to:
Sultan of Madurai
|
| predecessor | Previous sultans of the Madurai Sultanate ⓘ |
| realm |
Madurai
ⓘ
Parts of present-day Tamil Nadu ⓘ |
| region | South India ⓘ |
| reignCharacteristic | Final sultan of the Madurai Sultanate ⓘ |
| reignEndReason | Conquest by the Vijayanagara Empire ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| ruleType | Sultanate rule ⓘ |
| successorState | Vijayanagara Empire ⓘ |
| title | Ala-ud-Din Sikandar 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: Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah Description of subject: Ala-ud-Din Sikandar Shah was the final sultan of the short-lived Madurai Sultanate in South India, whose reign marked the end of Muslim rule in that region before its reconquest by the Vijayanagara Empire.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.