Mahdist War
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The Mahdist War was a late 19th-century Islamic rebellion and conflict in Sudan against Egyptian and British rule, led by Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi and his successors.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mahdist War canonical | 37 |
| Mahdist revolt | 2 |
| Mahdist movement | 1 |
| Mahdist uprising of 1881 | 1 |
| Sudan theatre of Mahdist War | 1 |
| Sudanese Mahdist movement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T831158 — 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: Mahdist War Context triple: [Scramble for Africa, hasKeyEvent, Mahdist War]
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A.
Second Sudanese Civil War
The Second Sudanese Civil War was a prolonged and brutal conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the Sudanese government and southern rebel groups, primarily over political power, resources, and religious and ethnic tensions, which resulted in massive casualties, displacement, and ultimately paved the way for South Sudan’s independence.
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B.
North Yemen Civil War
The North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970) was a conflict between royalist forces loyal to the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and republican revolutionaries backed by Egypt, which reshaped Yemen’s political landscape and became a major Cold War proxy war in the Middle East.
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C.
First Sudanese Civil War
The First Sudanese Civil War was a protracted conflict from 1955 to 1972 between the northern Sudanese government and southern insurgents, rooted in political, religious, and ethnic tensions that shaped Sudan’s post-independence history.
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D.
Ethiopian Civil War
The Ethiopian Civil War was a protracted conflict from 1974 to 1991 between the Marxist Derg regime and various rebel groups, which devastated the country and led to the overthrow of Ethiopia’s military government.
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E.
Aden Emergency
The Aden Emergency was a violent insurgency and period of civil unrest in the 1960s in the British-controlled port of Aden, marking a key episode in the end of British colonial rule in South Arabia.
- 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: Mahdist War Target entity description: The Mahdist War was a late 19th-century Islamic rebellion and conflict in Sudan against Egyptian and British rule, led by Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi and his successors.
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A.
Second Sudanese Civil War
The Second Sudanese Civil War was a prolonged and brutal conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the Sudanese government and southern rebel groups, primarily over political power, resources, and religious and ethnic tensions, which resulted in massive casualties, displacement, and ultimately paved the way for South Sudan’s independence.
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B.
North Yemen Civil War
The North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970) was a conflict between royalist forces loyal to the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and republican revolutionaries backed by Egypt, which reshaped Yemen’s political landscape and became a major Cold War proxy war in the Middle East.
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C.
First Sudanese Civil War
The First Sudanese Civil War was a protracted conflict from 1955 to 1972 between the northern Sudanese government and southern insurgents, rooted in political, religious, and ethnic tensions that shaped Sudan’s post-independence history.
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D.
Ethiopian Civil War
The Ethiopian Civil War was a protracted conflict from 1974 to 1991 between the Marxist Derg regime and various rebel groups, which devastated the country and led to the overthrow of Ethiopia’s military government.
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E.
Aden Emergency
The Aden Emergency was a violent insurgency and period of civil unrest in the 1960s in the British-controlled port of Aden, marking a key episode in the end of British colonial rule in South Arabia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mahdist War Description of subject: The Mahdist War was a late 19th-century Islamic rebellion and conflict in Sudan against Egyptian and British rule, led by Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi and his successors.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
film "Khartoum" (1966)
subject linked to:
film "Khartoum" (1966)
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linked to: Mahdist War
subject linked to:
The Four Feathers