Nader Shah
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Nader Shah was an 18th-century Persian ruler and military conqueror who founded the Afsharid dynasty and briefly restored Iran as a major regional power through his campaigns across the Middle East and India.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nader Shah canonical | 34 |
| Nader Shah Afshar | 8 |
| Afshar | 1 |
| Nāder Qolī Beg | 1 |
| Tahmasp Qoli Khan | 1 |
| associated with Nader Shah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T531737 — 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.
Target entity: Nader Shah Context triple: [Peacock Throne, lootedBy, Nader Shah]
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Eskandar
Eskandar is a Persian and Arabic form of the name Alexander, commonly used in historical and literary contexts to refer to Alexander the Great.
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B.
Mir Jafar
Mir Jafar was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal best known for his alliance with the British East India Company, which helped establish British colonial rule in India.
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C.
Wajid Ali Shah
Wajid Ali Shah was the last Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), known for his patronage of arts, music, and dance, and for his controversial deposition and exile by the British in 1856.
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D.
Ismail Pasha
Ismail Pasha was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan in the late 19th century, known for his ambitious modernization efforts and heavy foreign debts that led to increased European control over Egypt.
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E.
Sultan al-Atrash
Sultan al-Atrash was a prominent 20th-century Druze leader and Syrian nationalist revolutionary best known for leading the Great Syrian Revolt against French colonial rule in the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Nader Shah Target entity description: Nader Shah was an 18th-century Persian ruler and military conqueror who founded the Afsharid dynasty and briefly restored Iran as a major regional power through his campaigns across the Middle East and India.
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A.
Eskandar
Eskandar is a Persian and Arabic form of the name Alexander, commonly used in historical and literary contexts to refer to Alexander the Great.
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B.
Mir Jafar
Mir Jafar was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal best known for his alliance with the British East India Company, which helped establish British colonial rule in India.
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C.
Wajid Ali Shah
Wajid Ali Shah was the last Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), known for his patronage of arts, music, and dance, and for his controversial deposition and exile by the British in 1856.
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D.
Ismail Pasha
Ismail Pasha was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan in the late 19th century, known for his ambitious modernization efforts and heavy foreign debts that led to increased European control over Egypt.
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E.
Sultan al-Atrash
Sultan al-Atrash was a prominent 20th-century Druze leader and Syrian nationalist revolutionary best known for leading the Great Syrian Revolt against French colonial rule in the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder of dynasty
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historical figure ⓘ military leader ⓘ monarch ⓘ ruler of Iran ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Nader Shah
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surface form:
Nāder Qolī Beg
Nader Shah ⓘ
surface form:
Tahmasp Qoli Khan
|
| attemptedReform |
military organization
ⓘ
taxation system ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Damghan (1729)
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Battle of Karnal (1739) ⓘ Battle of Murchehkhort (1729) ⓘ Battle of Yeghevārd (1735) ⓘ |
| birthCountry |
Safavid Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Safavid Iran
|
| birthPlace | Dastgerd ⓘ |
| birthRegion | Khorasan ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1688 ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign |
Isfahan
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Mashhad ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Iran ⓘ |
| crownedAt | Mughan plain ⓘ |
| deathCause | assassination ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Quchan ⓘ |
| deathRegion | Khorasan ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1747 ⓘ |
| defeated |
Ashraf Hotak
ⓘ
Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah ⓘ |
| dynastyFounded |
Afsharid Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Afsharid dynasty
|
| endOfReignCharacterizedBy |
increasing despotism
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rebellions in his empire ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Afshar Turkoman ⓘ |
| fullName |
Nader Shah
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Nader Shah Afshar
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| historicalReputation |
sometimes called the Napoleon of Persia
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sometimes compared to Timur ⓘ |
| knownFor |
brief restoration of Iranian power
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campaigns against the Ottoman Empire ⓘ campaigns against the Russian Empire ⓘ campaigns in the Caucasus ⓘ defeat of Afghan Hotak dynasty ⓘ expulsion of Ottomans from western Iran ⓘ invasion of the Mughal Empire ⓘ military campaigns across the Middle East ⓘ naval expansion in the Persian Gulf ⓘ sack of Delhi in 1739 ⓘ |
| militaryTactics | use of mobile cavalry and artillery ⓘ |
| parentTribe | Afshar tribe ⓘ |
| predecessorAsDeFactoRuler | Tahmasp II ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence |
Caucasus
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Central Asia ⓘ India ⓘ Iran ⓘ Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1747 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1736 ⓘ |
| religionPolicy | attempted to promote Jaʿfari school as fifth Sunni school ⓘ |
| successorAsShahOfIran | Adil Shah Afshar ⓘ |
| tookFromDelhi |
Darya-ye Noor diamond
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Koh-i-Noor diamond ⓘ peacock throne ⓘ
surface form:
Peacock Throne
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| treaty |
Treaty of Rasht
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surface form:
Treaty of Ganja
Treaty of Rasht ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Nader Shah Description of subject: Nader Shah was an 18th-century Persian ruler and military conqueror who founded the Afsharid dynasty and briefly restored Iran as a major regional power through his campaigns across the Middle East and India.
Referenced by (46)
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