Aceh Sultanate
E159529
The Aceh Sultanate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in northern Sumatra that became a major regional trading and religious center in the 16th–17th centuries.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aceh Sultanate canonical | 13 |
| Sultanate of Aceh | 6 |
| Acehnese aristocracy | 1 |
| Samudera-Pasai Sultanate | 1 |
| historical Aceh Sultanate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1394939 — 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.
Target entity: Aceh Sultanate Context triple: [Malacca Sultanate, successorState, Aceh Sultanate]
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A.
Mataram Sultanate
The Mataram Sultanate was a powerful Islamic kingdom that dominated much of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, shaping the island’s political and cultural history.
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B.
Malacca Sultanate
The Malacca Sultanate was a powerful 15th–16th century Malay maritime empire centered in the port city of Malacca, which became a major hub of regional trade and the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
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C.
Yogyakarta Sultanate
The Yogyakarta Sultanate is a historic Javanese monarchy in central Java that continues today as a culturally influential royal institution with special autonomous status within Indonesia.
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D.
Demak Sultanate
The Demak Sultanate was the first major Islamic kingdom on the island of Java, emerging in the late 15th century as a powerful coastal trading state that helped spread Islam throughout the region.
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E.
Johor Sultanate
The Johor Sultanate was a powerful Malay maritime kingdom that emerged in the 16th century as a successor to the Malacca Sultanate, dominating trade and politics in the southern Malay Peninsula and surrounding regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Aceh Sultanate Target entity description: The Aceh Sultanate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in northern Sumatra that became a major regional trading and religious center in the 16th–17th centuries.
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A.
Mataram Sultanate
The Mataram Sultanate was a powerful Islamic kingdom that dominated much of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, shaping the island’s political and cultural history.
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B.
Malacca Sultanate
The Malacca Sultanate was a powerful 15th–16th century Malay maritime empire centered in the port city of Malacca, which became a major hub of regional trade and the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
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C.
Yogyakarta Sultanate
The Yogyakarta Sultanate is a historic Javanese monarchy in central Java that continues today as a culturally influential royal institution with special autonomous status within Indonesia.
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D.
Demak Sultanate
The Demak Sultanate was the first major Islamic kingdom on the island of Java, emerging in the late 15th century as a powerful coastal trading state that helped spread Islam throughout the region.
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E.
Johor Sultanate
The Johor Sultanate was a powerful Malay maritime kingdom that emerged in the 16th century as a successor to the Malacca Sultanate, dominating trade and politics in the southern Malay Peninsula and surrounding regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic state
ⓘ
historical polity ⓘ maritime kingdom ⓘ sultanate ⓘ |
| capital | Banda Aceh ⓘ |
| conflictedWith |
Portuguese Empire
ⓘ
Johor Sultanate ⓘ
surface form:
Sultanate of Johor
Malacca Sultanate ⓘ
surface form:
Sultanate of Malacca
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Malay world ⓘ |
| currencyType |
gold coins
ⓘ
silver coins ⓘ |
| emergedAsMajorPowerInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| exportedTo |
Europe
ⓘ
India ⓘ Middle East ⓘ |
| flourishedInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| governmentType |
monarchy
ⓘ
sultanate ⓘ |
| hadAllianceWith | Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| hadInstitution |
Islamic madrasas
ⓘ
ulama councils ⓘ |
| importantCommodity |
camphor
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gold ⓘ pepper ⓘ spices ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Islamic scholarship
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maritime trade ⓘ military strength ⓘ pepper trade ⓘ resistance to European colonial powers ⓘ |
| language |
Acehnese
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Malay ⓘ |
| legitimacyBasis | Islamic law (sharia) ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northern Sumatra ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Indonesia ⓘ |
| majorPort | Banda Aceh ⓘ |
| region | Strait of Malacca ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
ⓘ
Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| religiousRole |
center of Islamic learning in Southeast Asia
ⓘ
disseminator of Islam in the Malay world ⓘ |
| religiousSchool |
Shafi'i school
ⓘ
surface form:
Shafi‘i school of Sunni Islam
|
| scriptUsed | Arabic script ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | control of access to the Strait of Malacca ⓘ |
| tradedWith |
Arabian Peninsula
ⓘ
Dutch Republic ⓘ Gujarat ⓘ Mughal Empire (in much of the territory) ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal Empire
Ottoman Empire ⓘ Portuguese Empire ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Aceh Sultanate Description of subject: The Aceh Sultanate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in northern Sumatra that became a major regional trading and religious center in the 16th–17th centuries.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.