Mahmud Khalji
E1023728
Mahmud Khalji was a 15th-century Sultan of Malwa in central India, known for his military campaigns and conflicts with neighboring Rajput kingdoms.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mahmud Khalji canonical | 1 |
| Mahmud Khalji I | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12847485 — 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 Khalji Context triple: [Rana Kumbha, enemy, Mahmud Khalji]
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A.
Muhammad of Ghor
Muhammad of Ghor was a 12th-century Ghurid sultan whose conquests in northern India laid the foundations for Muslim rule and the later Delhi Sultanate.
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B.
Qutb-ul-Mulk
Qutb-ul-Mulk was the founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, which ruled the Golconda Sultanate in south-central India.
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C.
Muzaffar al-Din
Muzaffar al-Din was a prominent historical figure whose legacy gave his name to the Muzaffarid dynasty in the Islamic world.
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D.
Ali Mardan Khalji
Ali Mardan Khalji was a ruler from the Khalji dynasty who succeeded Bakhtiyar Khalji in leading the early Muslim conquests and governance in parts of eastern India.
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E.
Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan
Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal known for his relatively stable and prosperous rule before the rise of Alivardi Khan.
- 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 Khalji Target entity description: Mahmud Khalji was a 15th-century Sultan of Malwa in central India, known for his military campaigns and conflicts with neighboring Rajput kingdoms.
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A.
Muhammad of Ghor
Muhammad of Ghor was a 12th-century Ghurid sultan whose conquests in northern India laid the foundations for Muslim rule and the later Delhi Sultanate.
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B.
Qutb-ul-Mulk
Qutb-ul-Mulk was the founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, which ruled the Golconda Sultanate in south-central India.
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C.
Muzaffar al-Din
Muzaffar al-Din was a prominent historical figure whose legacy gave his name to the Muzaffarid dynasty in the Islamic world.
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D.
Ali Mardan Khalji
Ali Mardan Khalji was a ruler from the Khalji dynasty who succeeded Bakhtiyar Khalji in leading the early Muslim conquests and governance in parts of eastern India.
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E.
Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan
Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal known for his relatively stable and prosperous rule before the rise of Alivardi Khan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim monarch
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Sultan ⓘ historical figure ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Malwa
NERFINISHED
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Mandu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| built | fortifications at Mandu ⓘ |
| capital | Mandu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 15th century ⓘ |
| conflict |
battles against Rana Kumbha of Mewar
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campaigns against Rajput states ⓘ conflicts with the kingdom of Gujarat ⓘ wars with Mewar ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Malwa Sultanate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Khalji dynasty of Malwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | post-Tughlaq period in India ⓘ |
| expandedTerritory | Malwa Sultanate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentForm | sultanate ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | late Delhi Sultanate successor states era ⓘ |
| knownFor |
conflicts with Rajput kingdoms
ⓘ
military campaigns ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt | Persian ⓘ |
| legacy |
key Muslim power in central India in the 15th century
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major early ruler of the Malwa Sultanate ⓘ |
| militaryStrategy | offensive campaigns against neighbors ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Banas
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Mandalgarh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
military leader
ⓘ
ruler ⓘ |
| opponent |
Rajput chiefs of Mewar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rana Kumbha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronage | Islamic architecture in Malwa ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | independent sultan ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Sultan of Malwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Hoshang Shah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Central India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1469 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1436 ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| successor | Ghiyas-ud-Din Shah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Ghiyas-ud-Din Abu’l Fath Shah Mahmud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Khalji Description of subject: Mahmud Khalji was a 15th-century Sultan of Malwa in central India, known for his military campaigns and conflicts with neighboring Rajput kingdoms.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mahmud Khalji I