Shahjahanabad
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Shahjahanabad, now known as Old Delhi, was the fortified Mughal imperial city founded by Emperor Shah Jahan and later served as the empire’s political and cultural center.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shahjahanabad canonical | 14 |
| Old Delhi | 5 |
| Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi) | 3 |
| Mughal Delhi | 1 |
| Mughal court at Delhi | 1 |
| Old Delhi walled city | 1 |
| Old Delhi’s historic core | 1 |
| Purani Dilli | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T764206 — 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: Shahjahanabad Context triple: [Aurangzeb, capital, Shahjahanabad]
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Fatehpur Sikri
Fatehpur Sikri is a 16th-century fortified city in Uttar Pradesh, India, built by the Mughal emperor Akbar and renowned for its grand red sandstone architecture and historical significance as a former imperial capital.
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Agra
Agra is a historic city in northern India renowned for its Mughal-era architecture, most notably the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort.
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Faizabad
Faizabad is a historic city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh that once served as the capital of the former princely state of Oudh (Awadh).
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Chatta Chowk
Chatta Chowk is a historic covered bazaar inside Delhi’s Red Fort, once serving as a bustling Mughal-era market for luxury goods.
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E.
Amritsar
Amritsar is a historic city in the Indian state of Punjab, renowned as the spiritual center of Sikhism and home to the Golden Temple.
- 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: Shahjahanabad Target entity description: Shahjahanabad, now known as Old Delhi, was the fortified Mughal imperial city founded by Emperor Shah Jahan and later served as the empire’s political and cultural center.
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A.
Fatehpur Sikri
Fatehpur Sikri is a 16th-century fortified city in Uttar Pradesh, India, built by the Mughal emperor Akbar and renowned for its grand red sandstone architecture and historical significance as a former imperial capital.
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B.
Agra
Agra is a historic city in northern India renowned for its Mughal-era architecture, most notably the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort.
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C.
Faizabad
Faizabad is a historic city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh that once served as the capital of the former princely state of Oudh (Awadh).
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D.
Chatta Chowk
Chatta Chowk is a historic covered bazaar inside Delhi’s Red Fort, once serving as a bustling Mughal-era market for luxury goods.
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E.
Amritsar
Amritsar is a historic city in the Indian state of Punjab, renowned as the spiritual center of Sikhism and home to the Golden Temple.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Shahjahanabad Description of subject: Shahjahanabad, now known as Old Delhi, was the fortified Mughal imperial city founded by Emperor Shah Jahan and later served as the empire’s political and cultural center.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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