Dost Mohammad Khan
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Dost Mohammad Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan in the 19th century whose reign and policies made him a central figure in the Anglo-Afghan conflicts between the British Empire and Afghanistan.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dost Mohammad Khan canonical | 13 |
| Dost Muhammad Khan | 2 |
| Dost Mohammad | 1 |
| Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai | 1 |
| Emir of Afghanistan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2458536 — 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: Dost Mohammad Khan Context triple: [Anglo-Afghan Wars, significantPerson, Dost Mohammad Khan]
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A.
Shuja Shah Durrani
Shuja Shah Durrani was an early 19th-century Afghan monarch of the Durrani dynasty who twice ruled Afghanistan amid intense internal power struggles and foreign intervention.
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B.
Timur Shah Durrani
Timur Shah Durrani was an 18th-century Afghan monarch who succeeded Ahmad Shah Durrani and presided over the Durrani Empire during a period of internal fragmentation and regional challenges.
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C.
Mahmud Shah Durrani
Mahmud Shah Durrani was an 18th–19th century Afghan monarch of the Durrani dynasty who ruled parts of present-day Afghanistan during a period of internal strife and regional power struggles.
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D.
Ahmad Shah Durrani
Ahmad Shah Durrani was the 18th-century Afghan military leader and founder of the modern state of Afghanistan, who established a vast empire in South and Central Asia.
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E.
Zaman Shah Durrani
Zaman Shah Durrani was a late 18th-century Afghan king of the Durrani dynasty whose reign was marked by internal power struggles and failed attempts to expand Afghan influence into India.
- 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: Dost Mohammad Khan Target entity description: Dost Mohammad Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan in the 19th century whose reign and policies made him a central figure in the Anglo-Afghan conflicts between the British Empire and Afghanistan.
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A.
Shuja Shah Durrani
Shuja Shah Durrani was an early 19th-century Afghan monarch of the Durrani dynasty who twice ruled Afghanistan amid intense internal power struggles and foreign intervention.
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B.
Timur Shah Durrani
Timur Shah Durrani was an 18th-century Afghan monarch who succeeded Ahmad Shah Durrani and presided over the Durrani Empire during a period of internal fragmentation and regional challenges.
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C.
Mahmud Shah Durrani
Mahmud Shah Durrani was an 18th–19th century Afghan monarch of the Durrani dynasty who ruled parts of present-day Afghanistan during a period of internal strife and regional power struggles.
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D.
Ahmad Shah Durrani
Ahmad Shah Durrani was the 18th-century Afghan military leader and founder of the modern state of Afghanistan, who established a vast empire in South and Central Asia.
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E.
Zaman Shah Durrani
Zaman Shah Durrani was a late 18th-century Afghan king of the Durrani dynasty whose reign was marked by internal power struggles and failed attempts to expand Afghan influence into India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
emir
ⓘ
human ⓘ political leader ⓘ |
| ally | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1793-12-23 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Herat ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child |
Akbar Khan
ⓘ
Mohammad Afzal Khan ⓘ Mohammad Azam Khan ⓘ Sher Ali Khan ⓘ |
| clan | Mohammadzai ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battles against Sikh Empire
ⓘ
First Anglo-Afghan War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1863-06-09 ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Pashtuns
ⓘ
surface form:
Pashtun
|
| familyName | Khan ⓘ |
| father | Payinda Khan Barakzai ⓘ |
| fullName |
Dost Mohammad Khan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai
|
| givenName |
Dost Mohammad Khan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dost Mohammad
|
| headOfGovernment | Emirate of Afghanistan ⓘ |
| knownFor |
central role in Anglo-Afghan conflicts
ⓘ
founding Barakzai rule over Afghanistan ⓘ restoring Afghan unity after Durrani fragmentation ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Pashto
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| memberOf | Barakzai dynasty ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
First Anglo-Afghan War
ⓘ
Great Game ⓘ Second Anglo-Afghan War ⓘ
surface form:
Second Anglo-Afghan War (early phase context)
|
| notableWork | reunification of much of Afghanistan under Barakzai rule ⓘ |
| opponent |
British Empire
ⓘ
Maharaja Ranjit Singh ⓘ
surface form:
Ranjit Singh
Sikh Empire ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Herat ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Herat ⓘ |
| policy | balancing relations between British Empire and Russian Empire ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Amir of Afghanistan
ⓘ
surface form:
Emir of Afghanistan
|
| predecessor |
Ali Shah Durrani
ⓘ
surface form:
Ayub Shah Durrani
|
| reignEnd |
1839
ⓘ
1863 ⓘ |
| reignStart |
1826
ⓘ
1845 ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
ⓘ
Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Bibi Mubarika ⓘ |
| successor |
Shuja Shah Durrani
ⓘ
surface form:
Shah Shujah Durrani
Sher Ali Khan ⓘ |
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: Dost Mohammad Khan Description of subject: Dost Mohammad Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan in the 19th century whose reign and policies made him a central figure in the Anglo-Afghan conflicts between the British Empire and Afghanistan.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Emir of Afghanistan
this entity surface form:
Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai
this entity surface form:
Dost Mohammad
this entity surface form:
Dost Muhammad Khan
this entity surface form:
Dost Muhammad Khan