Beylik of Aydın
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The Beylik of Aydın was a medieval Turkish principality in western Anatolia that emerged after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate and became notable for its maritime activities in the Aegean region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beylik of Aydın canonical | 3 |
| Aydınid Beylik | 2 |
| Aydınid beylik | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5758797 — 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: Beylik of Aydın Context triple: [Beylik of Germiyan, borderedBy, Beylik of Aydın]
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Beylik of Karaman
The Beylik of Karaman was a prominent 13th–15th century Turkish principality in Anatolia that became one of the main rivals of the early Ottoman state and a key center of Turkish political and cultural life after the decline of Seljuk power.
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B.
Candarid Beylik
Candarid Beylik was a medieval Anatolian Turkish principality that emerged after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and played a regional role along the Black Sea coast before being absorbed by the Ottoman Empire.
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Seljuk Sultanate of Rum
The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum was a medieval Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim state in Anatolia that played a key role in the region’s political and cultural transformation before the rise of the Ottomans.
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D.
Beylik of Germiyan
The Beylik of Germiyan was a prominent 13th–15th century Turkish principality in western Anatolia that played a key role in the political fragmentation following the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and later became an important territory absorbed by the rising Ottoman Empire.
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E.
Sidon Eyalet
Sidon Eyalet was an Ottoman provincial administrative region in the Levant, centered on the coastal city of Sidon and governed by various pashas over its history.
- 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: Beylik of Aydın Target entity description: The Beylik of Aydın was a medieval Turkish principality in western Anatolia that emerged after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate and became notable for its maritime activities in the Aegean region.
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A.
Beylik of Karaman
The Beylik of Karaman was a prominent 13th–15th century Turkish principality in Anatolia that became one of the main rivals of the early Ottoman state and a key center of Turkish political and cultural life after the decline of Seljuk power.
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B.
Candarid Beylik
Candarid Beylik was a medieval Anatolian Turkish principality that emerged after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and played a regional role along the Black Sea coast before being absorbed by the Ottoman Empire.
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C.
Seljuk Sultanate of Rum
The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum was a medieval Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim state in Anatolia that played a key role in the region’s political and cultural transformation before the rise of the Ottomans.
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D.
Beylik of Germiyan
The Beylik of Germiyan was a prominent 13th–15th century Turkish principality in western Anatolia that played a key role in the political fragmentation following the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and later became an important territory absorbed by the rising Ottoman Empire.
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E.
Sidon Eyalet
Sidon Eyalet was an Ottoman provincial administrative region in the Levant, centered on the coastal city of Sidon and governed by various pashas over its history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Beylik of Aydın Description of subject: The Beylik of Aydın was a medieval Turkish principality in western Anatolia that emerged after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate and became notable for its maritime activities in the Aegean region.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Beylik of Aydın
linked to: Beylik of Aydın
subject linked to:
Germiyanid dynasty
linked to: Beylik of Aydın
linked to: Beylik of Aydın