Sarai
E344014
Sarai was the capital city of the Golden Horde, a major Mongol khanate that dominated parts of Eastern Europe and the Eurasian steppe in the 13th and 14th centuries.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3295985 — 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: Sarai Context triple: [Batu Khan, placeOfDeath, Sarai]
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A.
Sarai
Sarai is the original name of the biblical matriarch later known as Sarah, wife of Abraham in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Hagar
Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
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C.
Shelomith
Shelomith is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a member of King Rehoboam’s family lineage.
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D.
Chavah
Chavah is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Eve, traditionally understood to mean "life" or "living one."
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E.
Keturah
Keturah is a woman in the Hebrew Bible known as a later wife or concubine of Abraham, through whom several Arabian tribes are traditionally traced.
- 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: Sarai Target entity description: Sarai was the capital city of the Golden Horde, a major Mongol khanate that dominated parts of Eastern Europe and the Eurasian steppe in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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A.
Sarai
Sarai is the original name of the biblical matriarch later known as Sarah, wife of Abraham in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Hagar
Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
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C.
Shelomith
Shelomith is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a member of King Rehoboam’s family lineage.
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D.
Chavah
Chavah is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Eve, traditionally understood to mean "life" or "living one."
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E.
Keturah
Keturah is a woman in the Hebrew Bible known as a later wife or concubine of Abraham, through whom several Arabian tribes are traditionally traced.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mongol city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ former capital ⓘ historical city ⓘ |
| capitalOf |
Golden Horde
ⓘ
Ulus of Jochi ⓘ |
| currencyUsed | Golden Horde dirhams ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | late 14th century ⓘ |
| destroyedBy | Timur ⓘ |
| destroyedInYear | 1395 ⓘ |
| flourishedInCentury |
13th century
ⓘ
14th century ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Batu Khan ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Batu Khan
ⓘ
Khan of the Golden Horde ⓘ
surface form:
Berke
Uzbek Khan ⓘ |
| hadBuildingType |
bazaars
ⓘ
mosques ⓘ palaces ⓘ |
| hadFunction |
diplomatic center
ⓘ
economic center ⓘ political center ⓘ |
| hadPopulationType |
nomadic elements
ⓘ
urban ⓘ |
| hadReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ shamanism ⓘ |
| hasVariantName |
Sarai Batu
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Sarai
Sarai Batu ⓘ |
| knownFor |
administration of the Golden Horde
ⓘ
multicultural population ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Kipchak languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Kipchak Turkic
Mongolian ⓘ Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
|
| locatedIn | Golden Horde ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Russia ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Eastern Europe
ⓘ
Eurasian steppe ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Volga River ⓘ |
| onTradeRoute |
Silk Road routes
ⓘ
surface form:
Silk Road network
Volga trade route ⓘ |
| partOf | Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| partOfHistoricalRegion | Lower Volga region ⓘ |
| successor |
Sarai
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
New Sarai
|
| timeOfEstablishment | 13th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Mongol rulers
ⓘ
Khan of the Golden Horde ⓘ
surface form:
khans of the Golden Horde
|
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: Sarai Description of subject: Sarai was the capital city of the Golden Horde, a major Mongol khanate that dominated parts of Eastern Europe and the Eurasian steppe in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.