Khwadāy-Nāmag
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Middle Persian prose text
Sasanian royal chronicle
historical chronicle
legendary chronicle
lost literary work
Khwadāy-Nāmag is a lost Middle Persian historical and legendary chronicle of the Sasanian kings that served as a key source for later Persian works such as Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khwadāy-Nāmag canonical | 2 |
| Khudāy-Nāmag | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5698943 — 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: Khwadāy-Nāmag Context triple: [Khwaday-Namag, alternativeName, Khwadāy-Nāmag]
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A.
Shahnama-e-Islam
Shahnama-e-Islam is an epic Urdu poetic work that narrates Islamic history and heroes in a grand, literary style.
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B.
Akbarnama
Akbarnama is a 16th-century chronicle written by Abu'l-Fazl that records the life and reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar and the history of his empire.
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C.
Kutub al-Sittah
Kutub al-Sittah is the canonical collection of six major Sunni hadith books regarded as the most authoritative sources of the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and traditions after the Qur’an.
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D.
Javid Nama
Javid Nama is a philosophical Persian epic poem by Allama Muhammad Iqbal that explores spiritual journey, selfhood, and the destiny of the Muslim world through an allegorical celestial voyage.
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E.
Risala-i-Haq Numa
Risala-i-Haq Numa is a philosophical and mystical treatise by Mughal prince Dara Shikoh that explores Sufi metaphysics and the nature of divine truth.
- 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: Khwadāy-Nāmag Target entity description: Khwadāy-Nāmag is a lost Middle Persian historical and legendary chronicle of the Sasanian kings that served as a key source for later Persian works such as Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh.
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A.
Shahnama-e-Islam
Shahnama-e-Islam is an epic Urdu poetic work that narrates Islamic history and heroes in a grand, literary style.
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B.
Akbarnama
Akbarnama is a 16th-century chronicle written by Abu'l-Fazl that records the life and reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar and the history of his empire.
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C.
Kutub al-Sittah
Kutub al-Sittah is the canonical collection of six major Sunni hadith books regarded as the most authoritative sources of the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and traditions after the Qur’an.
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D.
Javid Nama
Javid Nama is a philosophical Persian epic poem by Allama Muhammad Iqbal that explores spiritual journey, selfhood, and the destiny of the Muslim world through an allegorical celestial voyage.
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E.
Risala-i-Haq Numa
Risala-i-Haq Numa is a philosophical and mystical treatise by Mughal prince Dara Shikoh that explores Sufi metaphysics and the nature of divine truth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Middle Persian prose text
ⓘ
Sasanian royal chronicle ⓘ historical chronicle ⓘ legendary chronicle ⓘ lost literary work ⓘ |
| approximateCompletionBefore | 7th century CE ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
Sasanian dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Sasanian Empire
|
| contains |
historical accounts of Sasanian rulers
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legendary narratives ⓘ royal genealogies ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sasanian Empire ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Zoroastrian Iranian culture ⓘ |
| eraOfComposition | late Sasanian period ⓘ |
| extantForm | fragments and later adaptations ⓘ |
| function |
legitimation of Sasanian kingship
ⓘ
preservation of Iranian national history ⓘ |
| genre |
historiography
ⓘ
legendary history ⓘ royal chronicle ⓘ |
| influenceArea |
Islamic-era Persian historiography
ⓘ
Persian epic literature ⓘ |
| influenced |
Arabic historical works on Persian kings
ⓘ
Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh ⓘ
linked to:
Shahnameh
Islamic-era Iranian national epic tradition ⓘ later New Persian chronicles ⓘ |
| language |
Middle Persian
ⓘ
linked to:
Middle Persian language
|
| literaryTradition | Middle Persian literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Iranian national history
ⓘ
Sasanian kings ⓘ
linked to:
Sasanian emperors
history of the kings of Iran ⓘ |
| preservationState | no complete Middle Persian manuscript survives ⓘ |
| relatedTradition | Iranian national epic (Shahnameh tradition) ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Shahnameh ⓘ |
| scholarlyDebate | authorship and exact contents are uncertain ⓘ |
| scriptOriginallyWrittenIn | Pahlavi script ⓘ |
| status | lost ⓘ |
| survival | known only through later references and adaptations ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
Sasanian period
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linked to:
Sasanian Empire
legendary pre-Islamic Iranian past ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | Book of Lords ⓘ |
| titleTransliterationVariant |
Khudāy-Nāmag
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linked to:
Khwadāy-Nāmag
Khwadāy-Nāmag ⓘ Xwadāy-Nāmag ⓘ
linked to:
Khwaday-Namag
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| usedAsSourceBy |
Ferdowsi
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Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (through Arabic translation traditions) ⓘ
linked to:
Ibn al-Muqaffa'
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Khwadāy-Nāmag Description of subject: Khwadāy-Nāmag is a lost Middle Persian historical and legendary chronicle of the Sasanian kings that served as a key source for later Persian works such as Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Khwadāy-Nāmag