Qara Qoyunlu
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Qara Qoyunlu was a 14th–15th century Turkoman tribal confederation and dynasty that ruled parts of present-day Iran, Azerbaijan, and surrounding regions before being supplanted by the Aq Qoyunlu.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kara Koyunlu | 4 |
| Qara Qoyunlu canonical | 3 |
| Qara Qoyunlu dynasty | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3217111 — 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: Qara Qoyunlu Context triple: [Tabriz, wasCapitalOf, Qara Qoyunlu]
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Aq Qoyunlu
Aq Qoyunlu was a 15th-century Turkoman tribal confederation that ruled parts of Iran, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia before being supplanted by the Safavid Empire.
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B.
Kazakh Khanate
The Kazakh Khanate was a Turkic nomadic state that emerged in the 15th century on the Central Asian steppe and laid the political and cultural foundations of the Kazakh people.
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C.
Nogai Horde
The Nogai Horde was a confederation of Turkic-Mongol nomadic tribes that dominated the steppe north of the Black and Caspian Seas from the late Middle Ages into the early modern period.
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D.
Chagatai Khanate
The Chagatai Khanate was a Mongol and later Turkic-ruled khanate in Central Asia, formed from the lands of Genghis Khan’s son Chagatai and serving as a key successor state of the Mongol Empire.
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E.
Timurid dynasty
The Timurid dynasty was a Turco-Mongol ruling family founded by Timur (Tamerlane) that established a major empire in Central Asia and Iran and later gave rise to the Mughal rulers of the Indian subcontinent.
- 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: Qara Qoyunlu Target entity description: Qara Qoyunlu was a 14th–15th century Turkoman tribal confederation and dynasty that ruled parts of present-day Iran, Azerbaijan, and surrounding regions before being supplanted by the Aq Qoyunlu.
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A.
Aq Qoyunlu
Aq Qoyunlu was a 15th-century Turkoman tribal confederation that ruled parts of Iran, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia before being supplanted by the Safavid Empire.
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B.
Kazakh Khanate
The Kazakh Khanate was a Turkic nomadic state that emerged in the 15th century on the Central Asian steppe and laid the political and cultural foundations of the Kazakh people.
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C.
Nogai Horde
The Nogai Horde was a confederation of Turkic-Mongol nomadic tribes that dominated the steppe north of the Black and Caspian Seas from the late Middle Ages into the early modern period.
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D.
Chagatai Khanate
The Chagatai Khanate was a Mongol and later Turkic-ruled khanate in Central Asia, formed from the lands of Genghis Khan’s son Chagatai and serving as a key successor state of the Mongol Empire.
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E.
Timurid dynasty
The Timurid dynasty was a Turco-Mongol ruling family founded by Timur (Tamerlane) that established a major empire in Central Asia and Iran and later gave rise to the Mughal rulers of the Indian subcontinent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Qara Qoyunlu Description of subject: Qara Qoyunlu was a 14th–15th century Turkoman tribal confederation and dynasty that ruled parts of present-day Iran, Azerbaijan, and surrounding regions before being supplanted by the Aq Qoyunlu.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kara Koyunlu
this entity surface form:
Kara Koyunlu
this entity surface form:
Kara Koyunlu
this entity surface form:
Kara Koyunlu
this entity surface form:
Qara Qoyunlu dynasty