Maharaja Sher Singh
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Maharaja Sher Singh was a 19th-century ruler of the Sikh Empire who briefly occupied the throne of Punjab during the turbulent period following Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s death.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maharaja Sher Singh canonical | 2 |
| Maharaja of Lahore | 1 |
| Maharaja of Punjab | 1 |
| Maharaja of the Sikh Empire | 1 |
| Ranjit Singh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4112241 — 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: Maharaja Sher Singh Context triple: [Sher Singh, fullName, Maharaja Sher Singh]
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A.
Maha Singh
Maha Singh was a prominent Sikh chieftain of the Sukerchakia Misl and an important leader in late 18th-century Punjab, best known as the father of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
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B.
Kharak Singh
Kharak Singh was a 19th-century Sikh ruler who briefly succeeded his father Maharaja Ranjit Singh as the second Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
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C.
Gaj Singh II
Gaj Singh II is the Maharaja of Jodhpur, a prominent Indian royal figure known for his role in preserving Marwar’s cultural heritage and managing the former princely state’s properties and institutions.
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D.
Maharaja Umaid Singh
Maharaja Umaid Singh was a 20th-century ruler of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India, known for his modernization efforts and for commissioning the grand Umaid Bhawan Palace.
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E.
Puran Singh
Puran Singh was a prominent Punjabi writer, poet, and thinker known for his influential contributions to modern Punjabi literature and spiritual-philosophical essays.
- 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: Maharaja Sher Singh Target entity description: Maharaja Sher Singh was a 19th-century ruler of the Sikh Empire who briefly occupied the throne of Punjab during the turbulent period following Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s death.
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A.
Maha Singh
Maha Singh was a prominent Sikh chieftain of the Sukerchakia Misl and an important leader in late 18th-century Punjab, best known as the father of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
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B.
Kharak Singh
Kharak Singh was a 19th-century Sikh ruler who briefly succeeded his father Maharaja Ranjit Singh as the second Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
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C.
Gaj Singh II
Gaj Singh II is the Maharaja of Jodhpur, a prominent Indian royal figure known for his role in preserving Marwar’s cultural heritage and managing the former princely state’s properties and institutions.
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D.
Maharaja Umaid Singh
Maharaja Umaid Singh was a 20th-century ruler of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India, known for his modernization efforts and for commissioning the grand Umaid Bhawan Palace.
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E.
Puran Singh
Puran Singh was a prominent Punjabi writer, poet, and thinker known for his influential contributions to modern Punjabi literature and spiritual-philosophical essays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Maharaja Sher Singh Description of subject: Maharaja Sher Singh was a 19th-century ruler of the Sikh Empire who briefly occupied the throne of Punjab during the turbulent period following Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s death.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maharaja of the Sikh Empire
this entity surface form:
Maharaja of Punjab
this entity surface form:
Ranjit Singh
this entity surface form:
Maharaja of Lahore