Samudera Pasai
E633354
Samudera Pasai was an early Islamic sultanate on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional center of trade and Islamic learning in Southeast Asia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samudera Pasai canonical | 3 |
| Samudra Pasai | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6985367 — 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: Samudera Pasai Context triple: [Pasai Sultanate, alsoKnownAs, Samudera Pasai]
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A.
Pegangsaan Timur
Pegangsaan Timur is a historically significant street in Jakarta, Indonesia, best known as the location where Indonesia’s Proclamation of Independence was read in 1945.
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B.
Malacca
Malacca is a historic Malaysian state on the southwest coast of the Malay Peninsula, renowned for its rich multicultural heritage and its former role as a major trading port.
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C.
Pelabuhan Ratu
Pelabuhan Ratu is a coastal town and bay in West Java, Indonesia, known for its scenic beaches, strong surf, and local fishing culture.
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D.
Jayanegara
Jayanegara was an early 14th-century king of the Majapahit Empire in Java, known for consolidating the young kingdom amid internal conflicts and succession struggles.
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E.
Sunda Kelapa
Sunda Kelapa is the historic old port area of Jakarta, Indonesia, known as a key trading hub in the region since precolonial times.
- 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: Samudera Pasai Target entity description: Samudera Pasai was an early Islamic sultanate on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional center of trade and Islamic learning in Southeast Asia.
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A.
Pegangsaan Timur
Pegangsaan Timur is a historically significant street in Jakarta, Indonesia, best known as the location where Indonesia’s Proclamation of Independence was read in 1945.
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B.
Malacca
Malacca is a historic Malaysian state on the southwest coast of the Malay Peninsula, renowned for its rich multicultural heritage and its former role as a major trading port.
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C.
Pelabuhan Ratu
Pelabuhan Ratu is a coastal town and bay in West Java, Indonesia, known for its scenic beaches, strong surf, and local fishing culture.
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D.
Jayanegara
Jayanegara was an early 14th-century king of the Majapahit Empire in Java, known for consolidating the young kingdom amid internal conflicts and succession struggles.
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E.
Sunda Kelapa
Sunda Kelapa is the historic old port area of Jakarta, Indonesia, known as a key trading hub in the region since precolonial times.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic state
ⓘ
historical polity ⓘ sultanate ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Samudera
ⓘ
Samudera-Pasai Sultanate ⓘ
linked to:
Samudera Pasai Sultanate
Samudra Pasai ⓘ
linked to:
Samudera Pasai
|
| capital | Pasai ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Majapahit
ⓘ
linked to:
Majapahit Empire
|
| conqueredBy | Aceh Sultanate ⓘ |
| currency |
dirham
ⓘ
gold dinar ⓘ
linked to:
Dinar
|
| economyBasedOn |
gold trade
ⓘ
maritime trade ⓘ pepper trade ⓘ |
| endTime | 16th century ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Malik al-Saleh ⓘ |
| hasMonarch |
Ahmad I
ⓘ
Malik al-Saleh ⓘ Malik al-Zahir ⓘ |
| influenced |
Islamization of Sumatra
ⓘ
Islamization of the Malay Peninsula ⓘ spread of Islam in the Malay Archipelago ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Islamic jurisprudence
ⓘ
Islamic learning ⓘ Quranic studies ⓘ Sufi scholarship ⓘ being an early Islamic kingdom in the Malay world ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Arabic
ⓘ
Malay ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southeast Asia
ⓘ
Sumatra ⓘ northern coast of Sumatra ⓘ present-day Indonesia ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indian Ocean trade network
ⓘ
Straits of Malacca trading system ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | sultanate ruled by a sultan ⓘ |
| region | north coast of Aceh ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousInstitution |
madrasas
ⓘ
mosques ⓘ |
| sourceMentionedIn |
Chinese records
ⓘ
Ibn Battuta's travel accounts ⓘ |
| startTime | 13th century ⓘ |
| tradedWith |
Arabian Peninsula
ⓘ
China ⓘ Gujarat ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ other ports in the Straits of Malacca ⓘ |
| tradeGoodsExported |
camphor
ⓘ
gold ⓘ pepper ⓘ resins ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Jawi script ⓘ |
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: Samudera Pasai Description of subject: Samudera Pasai was an early Islamic sultanate on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional center of trade and Islamic learning in Southeast Asia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Samudera Pasai