Mahmud Ahmad
E1010584
Mahmud Ahmad was a Mahdist general who led Sudanese forces against the Anglo-Egyptian army during the late 19th-century Mahdist War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mahmud Ahmad canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12947061 — 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: Mahmud Ahmad Context triple: [Battle of Atbara, opposingCommander, Mahmud Ahmad]
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A.
Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada
Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada is an Afghan actor best known for playing the young Hassan in the film adaptation of "The Kite Runner."
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B.
Sharif Kamal
Sharif Kamal was a prominent Tatar writer recognized as one of the key figures in the development of modern Tatar literature.
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C.
Abd al-Ahad Khan
Abd al-Ahad Khan was the Emir of Bukhara from 1885 to 1910, remembered as one of the last significant rulers of the Manghit dynasty during a period of growing Russian influence in Central Asia.
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D.
Hassan Ali Effendi
Hassan Ali Effendi was a prominent 19th-century Muslim educationist and reformer from Sindh who played a key role in promoting modern education among Muslims in British India.
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E.
Karim Ahmad Khan
Karim Ahmad Khan is a British barrister and international lawyer who serves as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, known for his work in international criminal and humanitarian law.
- 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: Mahmud Ahmad Target entity description: Mahmud Ahmad was a Mahdist general who led Sudanese forces against the Anglo-Egyptian army during the late 19th-century Mahdist War.
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A.
Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada
Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada is an Afghan actor best known for playing the young Hassan in the film adaptation of "The Kite Runner."
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B.
Sharif Kamal
Sharif Kamal was a prominent Tatar writer recognized as one of the key figures in the development of modern Tatar literature.
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C.
Abd al-Ahad Khan
Abd al-Ahad Khan was the Emir of Bukhara from 1885 to 1910, remembered as one of the last significant rulers of the Manghit dynasty during a period of growing Russian influence in Central Asia.
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D.
Hassan Ali Effendi
Hassan Ali Effendi was a prominent 19th-century Muslim educationist and reformer from Sindh who played a key role in promoting modern education among Muslims in British India.
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E.
Karim Ahmad Khan
Karim Ahmad Khan is a British barrister and international lawyer who serves as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, known for his work in international criminal and humanitarian law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mahdist general
ⓘ
Sudanese person ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| activePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Mahdist state
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahdist Sudan
|
| conflict |
Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Sudan ⓘ |
| employer |
Mahdist state
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahdist Sudan
|
| ethnicGroup |
Sudanese Arabs
ⓘ
linked to:
Baggara Arabs of Sudan
|
| foughtFor |
Abdallahi ibn Muhammad
ⓘ
Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Arabic ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Mahdist army ⓘ |
| movement | Mahdism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading Sudanese forces against Anglo-Egyptian forces
ⓘ
role as a senior commander in the Mahdist War ⓘ |
| opponent |
Anglo-Egyptian army
ⓘ
Egypt ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Mahdist War ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
ⓘ
Sudan ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| role |
field commander
ⓘ
military leader in Sudanese resistance to Anglo-Egyptian rule ⓘ |
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: Mahmud Ahmad Description of subject: Mahmud Ahmad was a Mahdist general who led Sudanese forces against the Anglo-Egyptian army during the late 19th-century Mahdist War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.