Edigu (as kingmaker and powerful beglerbeg)
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Edigu was a powerful early 15th-century statesman and military commander of the Golden Horde who dominated its politics by installing and controlling successive khans as a kingmaker.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edigu (as kingmaker and powerful beglerbeg) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16999839 — 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: Edigu (as kingmaker and powerful beglerbeg) Context triple: [Khan of the Golden Horde, positionHeldBy, Edigu (as kingmaker and powerful beglerbeg)]
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A.
Erlik Khan
Erlik Khan is a deity from Turkic and Mongolic mythology, commonly regarded as the god of death and ruler of the underworld.
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B.
Karluk Yabghu of Tokmak
Karluk Yabghu of Tokmak was a medieval Turkic ruler who led the Karluk confederation from the city of Tokmak in Central Asia.
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C.
Akhmad Khan of the Great Horde
Akhmad Khan of the Great Horde was the last powerful khan of the Golden Horde, known for his failed attempt to reassert Tatar dominance over Muscovy in the late 15th century.
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D.
Toghrul Beg
Toghrul Beg was the 11th-century Turkic leader who established Seljuk power in the Islamic world and became the first sultan of the Seljuk dynasty.
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E.
Kuchum Khan
Kuchum Khan was the last khan of the Siberian Khanate, known for resisting Russian expansion into Siberia in the late 16th century.
- 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: Edigu (as kingmaker and powerful beglerbeg) Target entity description: Edigu was a powerful early 15th-century statesman and military commander of the Golden Horde who dominated its politics by installing and controlling successive khans as a kingmaker.
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A.
Erlik Khan
Erlik Khan is a deity from Turkic and Mongolic mythology, commonly regarded as the god of death and ruler of the underworld.
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B.
Karluk Yabghu of Tokmak
Karluk Yabghu of Tokmak was a medieval Turkic ruler who led the Karluk confederation from the city of Tokmak in Central Asia.
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C.
Akhmad Khan of the Great Horde
Akhmad Khan of the Great Horde was the last powerful khan of the Golden Horde, known for his failed attempt to reassert Tatar dominance over Muscovy in the late 15th century.
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D.
Toghrul Beg
Toghrul Beg was the 11th-century Turkic leader who established Seljuk power in the Islamic world and became the first sultan of the Seljuk dynasty.
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E.
Kuchum Khan
Kuchum Khan was the last khan of the Siberian Khanate, known for resisting Russian expansion into Siberia in the late 16th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.