Sultanate of Tidore
E681324
The Sultanate of Tidore was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in eastern Indonesia that dominated the clove trade and rivaled neighboring Ternate during the spice trade era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sultanate of Tidore canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7449262 — 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: Sultanate of Tidore Context triple: [Tidore, formerGovernment, Sultanate of Tidore]
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A.
Sultanate of Ternate
The Sultanate of Ternate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in the Maluku Islands that dominated the regional spice trade, especially cloves, from the late Middle Ages into the early modern period.
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B.
Gorontalo Kingdom
The Gorontalo Kingdom was a historical monarchy on the northern coast of Sulawesi in present-day Indonesia, serving as a major political and cultural center for the Gorontalo people before Dutch colonial rule.
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C.
Tallo Sultanate
The Tallo Sultanate was a historical Makassarese maritime kingdom in South Sulawesi that played a key role in regional trade and Islamization in eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Sulu Sultanate
The Sulu Sultanate was a historic Islamic maritime kingdom in the southern Philippines that controlled key trade routes and territories across the Sulu Archipelago, parts of Mindanao, and nearby Bornean regions.
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E.
Sultanate of Deli
The Sultanate of Deli was a Malay Islamic kingdom in northeastern Sumatra, centered on Medan, that flourished as a trading and political power from the 17th to the early 20th 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: Sultanate of Tidore Target entity description: The Sultanate of Tidore was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in eastern Indonesia that dominated the clove trade and rivaled neighboring Ternate during the spice trade era.
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A.
Sultanate of Ternate
The Sultanate of Ternate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in the Maluku Islands that dominated the regional spice trade, especially cloves, from the late Middle Ages into the early modern period.
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B.
Gorontalo Kingdom
The Gorontalo Kingdom was a historical monarchy on the northern coast of Sulawesi in present-day Indonesia, serving as a major political and cultural center for the Gorontalo people before Dutch colonial rule.
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C.
Tallo Sultanate
The Tallo Sultanate was a historical Makassarese maritime kingdom in South Sulawesi that played a key role in regional trade and Islamization in eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Sulu Sultanate
The Sulu Sultanate was a historic Islamic maritime kingdom in the southern Philippines that controlled key trade routes and territories across the Sulu Archipelago, parts of Mindanao, and nearby Bornean regions.
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E.
Sultanate of Deli
The Sultanate of Deli was a Malay Islamic kingdom in northeastern Sumatra, centered on Medan, that flourished as a trading and political power from the 17th to the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic state
ⓘ
maritime kingdom ⓘ sultanate ⓘ |
| capital | Tidore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colonialRelationship |
ally of Spain
ⓘ
under Dutch influence ⓘ vassal of Spain ⓘ |
| conflict | rivalry with Ternate over clove trade ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
clove trade
ⓘ
spice trade ⓘ |
| endTime | 20th century ⓘ |
| export |
cloves
ⓘ
mace ⓘ nutmeg ⓘ |
| flourishedIn |
16th century
ⓘ
17th century ⓘ 18th century ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
Papuan peoples
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ternate people NERFINISHED ⓘ Tidore people ⓘ |
| hasTitleOfRuler | Sultan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Age of Discovery
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Early Modern period ⓘ
surface form:
Early modern period
|
| language |
Malay
ⓘ
Ternate language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tidore language ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eastern Indonesia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maluku Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Tidore Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Islamic sultanates in the Maluku Islands
ⓘ
Spice Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| region | Maritime Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religionOfState | Sunni Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rival | Sultanate of Ternate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
Halmahera
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papua region NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Maluku ⓘ |
| startTime | 15th century ⓘ |
| tradedWith |
Dutch East India Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portuguese Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sultanate of Tidore Description of subject: The Sultanate of Tidore was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in eastern Indonesia that dominated the clove trade and rivaled neighboring Ternate during the spice trade era.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.