Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah
E253813
Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah was the Nawab of the Carnatic in the 18th century, known for his alliance with the British East India Company and involvement in the Carnatic and Mysore conflicts in South India.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah canonical | 14 |
| Muhammad Ali Khan Walajah | 2 |
| Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah confirmed as Nawab of the Carnatic | 1 |
| Nawab Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2299873 — 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: Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah Context triple: [First Anglo-Mysore War, commander, Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah]
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A.
Wajid Ali Shah
Wajid Ali Shah was the last Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), known for his patronage of arts, music, and dance, and for his controversial deposition and exile by the British in 1856.
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B.
Mubarak Ali Khan
Mubarak Ali Khan was a Nawab of Bengal from the 18th century, known for succeeding his father Mir Jafar during a period of intense British East India Company influence in the region.
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C.
Mir Qamar-ud-Din Khan Asaf Jah I
Mir Qamar-ud-Din Khan Asaf Jah I was an 18th-century Mughal nobleman who became the first Nizam of Hyderabad, establishing a powerful and semi-independent dynasty in the Deccan region of India.
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D.
Mir Mahbub Ali Khan
Mir Mahbub Ali Khan was the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, a powerful 19th-century Indian ruler known for his vast wealth and long reign over the princely state.
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E.
Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II
Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II was a 16th-century Sultan of Johor known for consolidating the Johor Sultanate’s power in the Malay Peninsula following the fall of Malacca.
- 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: Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah Target entity description: Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah was the Nawab of the Carnatic in the 18th century, known for his alliance with the British East India Company and involvement in the Carnatic and Mysore conflicts in South India.
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A.
Wajid Ali Shah
Wajid Ali Shah was the last Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), known for his patronage of arts, music, and dance, and for his controversial deposition and exile by the British in 1856.
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B.
Mubarak Ali Khan
Mubarak Ali Khan was a Nawab of Bengal from the 18th century, known for succeeding his father Mir Jafar during a period of intense British East India Company influence in the region.
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C.
Mir Qamar-ud-Din Khan Asaf Jah I
Mir Qamar-ud-Din Khan Asaf Jah I was an 18th-century Mughal nobleman who became the first Nizam of Hyderabad, establishing a powerful and semi-independent dynasty in the Deccan region of India.
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D.
Mir Mahbub Ali Khan
Mir Mahbub Ali Khan was the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, a powerful 19th-century Indian ruler known for his vast wealth and long reign over the princely state.
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E.
Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II
Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II was a 16th-century Sultan of Johor known for consolidating the Johor Sultanate’s power in the Malay Peninsula following the fall of Malacca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah Description of subject: Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah was the Nawab of the Carnatic in the 18th century, known for his alliance with the British East India Company and involvement in the Carnatic and Mysore conflicts in South India.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Second Carnatic War
this entity surface form:
Muhammad Ali Khan Walajah
this entity surface form:
Muhammad Ali Khan Walajah
this entity surface form:
Nawab Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah
this entity surface form:
Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah confirmed as Nawab of the Carnatic