Malacca Sultanate
E30643
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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malacca Sultanate canonical | 19 |
| Sultanate of Malacca | 4 |
| Melaka Sultanate | 3 |
| Malacca Sultanate dynasty | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T223494 — 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: Malacca Sultanate Context triple: [Malay peoples, associatedWith, Malacca Sultanate]
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A.
Srivijaya Empire
The Srivijaya Empire was a powerful maritime and commercial kingdom that dominated trade routes and Mahayana Buddhist culture in Southeast Asia from roughly the 7th to 13th centuries.
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B.
Majapahit Empire
The Majapahit Empire was a powerful 13th–16th century Javanese thalassocratic kingdom that dominated much of maritime Southeast Asia and became a major center of regional trade, culture, and Hindu-Buddhist civilization.
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C.
Singhasari Kingdom
The Singhasari Kingdom was a 13th-century Hindu-Buddhist Javanese kingdom in East Java, Indonesia, known for its role in regional expansion and as a precursor to the Majapahit Empire.
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D.
Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
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E.
Kediri Kingdom
The Kediri Kingdom was a powerful medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist state in eastern Java, renowned for its flourishing literature, trade, and cultural achievements.
- 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: Malacca Sultanate Target entity description: 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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A.
Srivijaya Empire
The Srivijaya Empire was a powerful maritime and commercial kingdom that dominated trade routes and Mahayana Buddhist culture in Southeast Asia from roughly the 7th to 13th centuries.
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B.
Majapahit Empire
The Majapahit Empire was a powerful 13th–16th century Javanese thalassocratic kingdom that dominated much of maritime Southeast Asia and became a major center of regional trade, culture, and Hindu-Buddhist civilization.
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C.
Singhasari Kingdom
The Singhasari Kingdom was a 13th-century Hindu-Buddhist Javanese kingdom in East Java, Indonesia, known for its role in regional expansion and as a precursor to the Majapahit Empire.
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D.
Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
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E.
Kediri Kingdom
The Kediri Kingdom was a powerful medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist state in eastern Java, renowned for its flourishing literature, trade, and cultural achievements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Malay kingdom
ⓘ
historical state ⓘ maritime empire ⓘ sultanate ⓘ |
| capital | Malacca ⓘ |
| conqueredBy | Portuguese Empire ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Malacca ⓘ |
| currency |
gold coins
ⓘ
tin ingot money ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1511 ⓘ |
| economy | trade-based economy ⓘ |
| endTime | 1511 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Malay peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Malays
|
| event | Portuguese conquest of Malacca ⓘ |
| firstRuler | Parameswara ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Parameswara ⓘ |
| founder | Parameswara ⓘ |
| governmentType |
Islamic monarchy
ⓘ
absolute monarchy ⓘ |
| influenced |
Malay court traditions
ⓘ
Malay legal traditions ⓘ Johor Sultanate ⓘ
surface form:
Malay sultanates of Johor
Sultanate of Pahang ⓘ
surface form:
Malay sultanates of Pahang
Malay sultanates of Perak ⓘ political culture of the Malay world ⓘ spread of Malay language as regional lingua franca ⓘ |
| knownFor |
center of Islamic learning in Southeast Asia
ⓘ
control of the Strait of Malacca ⓘ major entrepôt for regional trade ⓘ |
| languageOfWriting | Jawi script ⓘ |
| legalSystem |
Islamic law
ⓘ
Undang-Undang Melaka ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Malay Peninsula
ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ Strait of Malacca ⓘ
surface form:
Strait of Malacca region
|
| officialLanguage |
Old Malay
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Malay
|
| partOf |
history of Brunei
ⓘ
history of Indonesia ⓘ history of Malaysia ⓘ history of Singapore ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
codification of the Undang-Undang Melaka
ⓘ
development of Classical Malay as a lingua franca ⓘ spread of Islam in the Malay Archipelago ⓘ |
| startTime |
c. 1400
ⓘ
early 15th century ⓘ |
| successorState |
Aceh Sultanate
ⓘ
Portuguese conquest of Malacca ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese Malacca
Johor Sultanate ⓘ
surface form:
Sultanate of Johor
Sultanate of Pahang ⓘ Sultanate of Perak ⓘ |
| tradePartner |
Gujarat Sultanate
ⓘ
Java ⓘ Ming dynasty ⓘ
surface form:
Ming dynasty China
Pasai Sultanate ⓘ Ryukyu Kingdom ⓘ |
| tributaryTo | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
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: Malacca Sultanate Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sultanate of Malacca
this entity surface form:
Sultanate of Malacca
this entity surface form:
Sultanate of Malacca
this entity surface form:
Melaka Sultanate
this entity surface form:
Melaka Sultanate
this entity surface form:
Melaka Sultanate
this entity surface form:
Malacca Sultanate dynasty
this entity surface form:
Sultanate of Malacca