Mughal emperor Shah Alam II
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Shah Alam II was an 18th-century Mughal emperor whose weakened authority and political dependence on the British East India Company marked a key stage in the empire’s decline and the rise of British colonial rule in India.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II | 5 |
| Mughal emperor Shah Alam II canonical | 5 |
| Mughal Emperor Alamgir II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T392940 — 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: Mughal emperor Shah Alam II Context triple: [British East India Company, diwaniGrantedBy, Mughal emperor Shah Alam II]
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A.
Bahadur Shah II
Bahadur Shah II was the last Mughal emperor of India, remembered for his symbolic leadership role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and his subsequent exile by the British.
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B.
Shah Jahan
Shah Jahan was a 17th-century Mughal emperor best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal and overseeing a golden age of Indo-Islamic art and architecture in India.
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C.
Siraj ud-Daulah
Siraj ud-Daulah was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, whose defeat by the British East India Company at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 marked a key turning point in the establishment of British rule in India.
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D.
Humayun
Humayun was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, known for temporarily losing his kingdom to Afghan rivals before regaining it and paving the way for the expansive rule of his son Akbar.
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E.
Jahangir
Jahangir was the fourth emperor of the Mughal Empire, known for consolidating imperial power, fostering a rich cultural and artistic court, and maintaining relative internal stability during his reign in the early 17th century.
- 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: Mughal emperor Shah Alam II Target entity description: Shah Alam II was an 18th-century Mughal emperor whose weakened authority and political dependence on the British East India Company marked a key stage in the empire’s decline and the rise of British colonial rule in India.
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A.
Bahadur Shah II
Bahadur Shah II was the last Mughal emperor of India, remembered for his symbolic leadership role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and his subsequent exile by the British.
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B.
Shah Jahan
Shah Jahan was a 17th-century Mughal emperor best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal and overseeing a golden age of Indo-Islamic art and architecture in India.
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C.
Siraj ud-Daulah
Siraj ud-Daulah was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, whose defeat by the British East India Company at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 marked a key turning point in the establishment of British rule in India.
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D.
Humayun
Humayun was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, known for temporarily losing his kingdom to Afghan rivals before regaining it and paving the way for the expansive rule of his son Akbar.
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E.
Jahangir
Jahangir was the fourth emperor of the Mughal Empire, known for consolidating imperial power, fostering a rich cultural and artistic court, and maintaining relative internal stability during his reign in the early 17th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Mughal emperor Shah Alam II Description of subject: Shah Alam II was an 18th-century Mughal emperor whose weakened authority and political dependence on the British East India Company marked a key stage in the empire’s decline and the rise of British colonial rule in India.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mughal Emperor Alamgir II
this entity surface form:
Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II
this entity surface form:
Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II
this entity surface form:
Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II
this entity surface form:
Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II
this entity surface form:
Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II