Siraj ud-Daulah
E12228
Siraj ud-Daulah was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, whose defeat by the British East India Company at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 marked a key turning point in the establishment of British rule in India.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Siraj ud-Daulah canonical | 25 |
| Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah | 2 |
| Nawab of Bengal | 2 |
| Mirza Muhammad Siraj ud-Daulah | 1 |
| Siraj | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T115124 — 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: Siraj ud-Daulah Context triple: [Robert Clive, opponent, Siraj ud-Daulah]
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A.
Robert Clive
Robert Clive was an 18th-century British officer and colonial administrator whose military and political actions were crucial in establishing British rule in India, particularly through his leadership in Bengal.
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B.
Emperor of India
The Emperor of India was the imperial title used by British monarchs from 1876 to 1948 to signify their sovereignty over the territories of the British Raj.
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C.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a prominent lawyer, politician, and founder of Pakistan who played a central role in the creation of a separate Muslim state during the partition of British India.
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D.
Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Godse was an Indian nationalist and former RSS member who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, becoming one of the most infamous figures in modern Indian history.
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E.
Tariq Anwar
Tariq Anwar is a British film editor known for his acclaimed work on numerous major films, including the Academy Award–winning drama "The King’s Speech."
- 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: Siraj ud-Daulah Target entity description: Siraj ud-Daulah was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, whose defeat by the British East India Company at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 marked a key turning point in the establishment of British rule in India.
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A.
Robert Clive
Robert Clive was an 18th-century British officer and colonial administrator whose military and political actions were crucial in establishing British rule in India, particularly through his leadership in Bengal.
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B.
Emperor of India
The Emperor of India was the imperial title used by British monarchs from 1876 to 1948 to signify their sovereignty over the territories of the British Raj.
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C.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a prominent lawyer, politician, and founder of Pakistan who played a central role in the creation of a separate Muslim state during the partition of British India.
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D.
Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Godse was an Indian nationalist and former RSS member who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, becoming one of the most infamous figures in modern Indian history.
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E.
Tariq Anwar
Tariq Anwar is a British film editor known for his acclaimed work on numerous major films, including the Academy Award–winning drama "The King’s Speech."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Siraj ud-Daulah Description of subject: Siraj ud-Daulah was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, whose defeat by the British East India Company at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 marked a key turning point in the establishment of British rule in India.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nawab of Bengal
this entity surface form:
Nawab of Bengal
this entity surface form:
Mirza Muhammad Siraj ud-Daulah
this entity surface form:
Siraj
this entity surface form:
Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah
this entity surface form:
Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah
subject surface form:
Alivardi Khan
subject surface form:
Alivardi Khan