Kandahari Begum
E145704
Kandahari Begum was a Mughal princess and the first wife of Emperor Shah Jahan, known for her Timurid lineage and political significance in the Mughal court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kandahari Begum canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1269962 — 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: Kandahari Begum Context triple: [Shah Jahan, spouse, Kandahari Begum]
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A.
Salima Sultan Begum
Salima Sultan Begum was a Mughal empress and influential consort in the court of Emperor Akbar, known for her political acumen and high status within the imperial harem.
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B.
Maham Begum
Maham Begum was a chief consort of the Mughal emperor Babur and the mother of his successor, Humayun.
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C.
Shah Khanum
Shah Khanum was the grandmother of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal in the mid-18th century.
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D.
Dilras Banu Begum
Dilras Banu Begum was a 17th-century Mughal princess and the chief consort of Emperor Aurangzeb, remembered as the mother of several of his children and for the grand mausoleum Bibi Ka Maqbara built in her memory.
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E.
Gulbadan Begum
Gulbadan Begum was a Mughal princess and memoirist, best known for writing the Humayun-nama, an important historical account of her half-brother Emperor Humayun’s life and reign.
- 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: Kandahari Begum Target entity description: Kandahari Begum was a Mughal princess and the first wife of Emperor Shah Jahan, known for her Timurid lineage and political significance in the Mughal court.
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A.
Salima Sultan Begum
Salima Sultan Begum was a Mughal empress and influential consort in the court of Emperor Akbar, known for her political acumen and high status within the imperial harem.
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B.
Maham Begum
Maham Begum was a chief consort of the Mughal emperor Babur and the mother of his successor, Humayun.
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C.
Shah Khanum
Shah Khanum was the grandmother of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal in the mid-18th century.
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D.
Dilras Banu Begum
Dilras Banu Begum was a 17th-century Mughal princess and the chief consort of Emperor Aurangzeb, remembered as the mother of several of his children and for the grand mausoleum Bibi Ka Maqbara built in her memory.
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E.
Gulbadan Begum
Gulbadan Begum was a Mughal princess and memoirist, best known for writing the Humayun-nama, an important historical account of her half-brother Emperor Humayun’s life and reign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mughal empress consort
ⓘ
Mughal princess ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mughal harem politics
ⓘ
Timurid–Mughal relations ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal Empire
|
| court | Mughal court ⓘ |
| courtRank |
principal wife of the heir-apparent Prince Khurram
ⓘ
senior consort in Shah Jahan’s harem ⓘ |
| culture |
Mughal dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal
Persianate court culture ⓘ |
| dynasty | Timurid dynasty ⓘ |
| era |
Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal era
|
| ethnicGroup |
Timurid dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Timurid
Turco-Mongol ⓘ
surface form:
Turko-Mongol
|
| hasTitle |
Begum
ⓘ
Kandahari Begum self-link ⓘ |
| house |
House of Timur
ⓘ
Mughal imperial house by marriage ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Persian ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| marriedInto |
Mughal dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal imperial family
|
| motherTongue |
Persian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
|
| nativeLanguage |
Persian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
|
| nobleFamily |
Timurid dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Timurid family
|
| notableFor |
Timurid royal lineage
ⓘ
being the first wife of Shah Jahan ⓘ political significance in the Mughal court ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin |
Kandahar Province
ⓘ
surface form:
Kandahar region
|
| politicalRole | dynastic alliance between Timurids and Mughals ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Mughal empress consort
ⓘ
chief consort of Shah Jahan ⓘ |
| relative | Timurid princes of Kandahar ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Agra
ⓘ
Delhi ⓘ Mughal court ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Prince Khurram
ⓘ
Shah Jahan ⓘ |
| spouseOfMonarch | Shah Jahan ⓘ |
| spousePosition | Mughal emperor ⓘ |
| spouseReign | Shah Jahan’s reign as Mughal emperor ⓘ |
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: Kandahari Begum Description of subject: Kandahari Begum was a Mughal princess and the first wife of Emperor Shah Jahan, known for her Timurid lineage and political significance in the Mughal court.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.