Kingdom of Tambora
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The Kingdom of Tambora was a small pre-colonial polity on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, known for being destroyed along with its capital and people by the catastrophic 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kingdom of Tambora canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5436465 — 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: Kingdom of Tambora Context triple: [Tambora village, partOf, Kingdom of Tambora]
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Kingdom of Sunda
The Kingdom of Sunda was a Hindu-Buddhist Sundanese kingdom that flourished in western Java from around the 7th to the 16th century, known for its port of Sunda Kelapa and its role in regional trade before falling to expanding Islamic sultanates.
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Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
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Kuru Kingdom
The Kuru Kingdom was an ancient Indo-Aryan realm of northern India, central to early Vedic culture and epic traditions, and prominently featured as the setting of the Mahabharata.
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D.
Kingdom of Kekaya
The Kingdom of Kekaya was an ancient northwestern Indian realm mentioned in the Hindu epics, known especially as the homeland of Queen Kaikeyi in the Ramayana.
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E.
Kingdom of Wajo
The Kingdom of Wajo was a prominent Bugis maritime and trading state in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its influential role in regional commerce and distinctive political traditions.
- 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: Kingdom of Tambora Target entity description: The Kingdom of Tambora was a small pre-colonial polity on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, known for being destroyed along with its capital and people by the catastrophic 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora.
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A.
Kingdom of Sunda
The Kingdom of Sunda was a Hindu-Buddhist Sundanese kingdom that flourished in western Java from around the 7th to the 16th century, known for its port of Sunda Kelapa and its role in regional trade before falling to expanding Islamic sultanates.
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B.
Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
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C.
Kuru Kingdom
The Kuru Kingdom was an ancient Indo-Aryan realm of northern India, central to early Vedic culture and epic traditions, and prominently featured as the setting of the Mahabharata.
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D.
Kingdom of Kekaya
The Kingdom of Kekaya was an ancient northwestern Indian realm mentioned in the Hindu epics, known especially as the homeland of Queen Kaikeyi in the Ramayana.
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E.
Kingdom of Wajo
The Kingdom of Wajo was a prominent Bugis maritime and trading state in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its influential role in regional commerce and distinctive political traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former country
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historical kingdom ⓘ pre-colonial polity ⓘ |
| archaeologicalStatus | site buried under volcanic deposits ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Year Without a Summer
ⓘ
global climatic effects of 1815 eruption ⓘ |
| capital |
Tambora (capital city)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tambora village
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| culturalConsequence | extinction of a distinct local culture ⓘ |
| demiseType | sudden catastrophic destruction ⓘ |
| destroyedBy | 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora ⓘ |
| disestablishedIn | 1815 ⓘ |
| endCause |
ash fall
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pyroclastic flows ⓘ volcanic eruption ⓘ volcanic tsunami ⓘ |
| endDate | 1815 ⓘ |
| eruptionType | Plinian eruption of Mount Tambora ⓘ |
| eruptionVEI | VEI-7 eruption of Mount Tambora ⓘ |
| event |
1815 eruption of Mount Tambora
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linked to:
Mount Tambora
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| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Tambora people ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Tambora language ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | example of a society completely destroyed by a volcanic disaster ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | extinct polity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being destroyed in the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora
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complete annihilation of its population ⓘ loss of the Tambora language ⓘ |
| languageStatus | language extinct after 1815 eruption ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lesser Sunda Islands
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Maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ Sumbawa ⓘ present-day Indonesia ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Flores Sea
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Sanggar Peninsula ⓘ |
| locatedOnVolcano | Mount Tambora ⓘ |
| modernCountryTerritory | Indonesia ⓘ |
| modernProvinceTerritory | West Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mount Tambora ⓘ |
| partOf | Sumbawa Island polities ⓘ |
| populationOutcome | population wiped out by eruption ⓘ |
| region | western Sumbawa ⓘ |
| religion | local indigenous beliefs ⓘ |
| sourceType | known mainly from historical and linguistic reconstruction ⓘ |
| sovereigntyStatus | independent local kingdom prior to 1815 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | pre-colonial era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Kingdom of Tambora Description of subject: The Kingdom of Tambora was a small pre-colonial polity on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, known for being destroyed along with its capital and people by the catastrophic 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.