Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I
E482814
Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I was a 12th-century Muslim ruler who governed Mosul and surrounding regions as a prominent member of the Zengid dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4550713 — 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: Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I Context triple: [Zengid dynasty, notableRuler, Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I]
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A.
Kilij Arslan II
Kilij Arslan II was a 12th-century Seljuk sultan of Rum known for his military and political struggles against the Byzantine Empire and the Crusader states in Anatolia.
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B.
Ala al-Din
Ala al-Din is the given name of the medieval Arab physician and polymath Ibn al-Nafis, renowned for his early description of pulmonary circulation.
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C.
Ala al-Din Husayn
Ala al-Din Husayn was a 12th-century Ghurid ruler in present-day Afghanistan who significantly expanded his dynasty’s power and laid the foundations for its later prominence in the Islamic world.
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D.
Mahmud I of Great Seljuk
Mahmud I of Great Seljuk was a 12th-century Seljuk ruler who briefly held the sultanate during the empire’s period of political fragmentation and decline.
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E.
Kilij Arslan I
Kilij Arslan I was an 11th–12th century Seljuk ruler of the Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia, known for his resistance to the First Crusade and efforts to consolidate Turkish power in the region.
- 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: Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I Target entity description: Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I was a 12th-century Muslim ruler who governed Mosul and surrounding regions as a prominent member of the Zengid dynasty.
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A.
Kilij Arslan II
Kilij Arslan II was a 12th-century Seljuk sultan of Rum known for his military and political struggles against the Byzantine Empire and the Crusader states in Anatolia.
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B.
Ala al-Din
Ala al-Din is the given name of the medieval Arab physician and polymath Ibn al-Nafis, renowned for his early description of pulmonary circulation.
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C.
Ala al-Din Husayn
Ala al-Din Husayn was a 12th-century Ghurid ruler in present-day Afghanistan who significantly expanded his dynasty’s power and laid the foundations for its later prominence in the Islamic world.
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D.
Mahmud I of Great Seljuk
Mahmud I of Great Seljuk was a 12th-century Seljuk ruler who briefly held the sultanate during the empire’s period of political fragmentation and decline.
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E.
Kilij Arslan I
Kilij Arslan I was an 11th–12th century Seljuk ruler of the Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia, known for his resistance to the First Crusade and efforts to consolidate Turkish power in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
12th-century person
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Muslim ruler ⓘ Zengid ruler ⓘ historical figure ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 12th century ⓘ |
| country | Mosul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Islamic ⓘ |
| dynasty | Zengid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicContext | Turkic ruling elite in the Middle East ⓘ |
| father | Qutb al-Din Mawdud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governed | Mosul and surrounding regions ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| memberOf | Zengid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in regional politics of the Crusades era
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rule over Mosul ⓘ |
| partOf | Zengid domains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalContext |
Crusades
NERFINISHED
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fragmentation of the Seljuk Empire ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Atabeg of Mosul
NERFINISHED
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ruler of Mosul ⓘ |
| predecessor | Qutb al-Din Mawdud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Mosul
NERFINISHED
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Upper Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Iraq ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1193 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1170 ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| successor |
Izz al-Din Masud
NERFINISHED
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Izz al-Din Masʿud I of Mosul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Nur al-Dīn Arslān Shāh
NERFINISHED
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atabeg ⓘ |
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: Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I Description of subject: Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I was a 12th-century Muslim ruler who governed Mosul and surrounding regions as a prominent member of the Zengid dynasty.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.