Nishapuri dynasty
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The Nishapuri dynasty was a ruling family of Persian origin that produced several notable Mughal-era nobles in South Asia, including the influential 18th-century Nawab of Awadh, Shuja-ud-Daula.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nishapuri dynasty canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7991779 — 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: Nishapuri dynasty Context triple: [Shuja-ud-Daula, dynasty, Nishapuri dynasty]
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A.
Maitraka dynasty
The Maitraka dynasty was a post-Gupta ruling house that governed parts of western India, especially Saurashtra with its capital at Vallabhi, between the 5th and 8th centuries CE.
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Kachchhapaghata dynasty
The Kachchhapaghata dynasty was a medieval Rajput ruling house in central India, noted for its patronage of Hindu temple architecture and regional power between the 10th and 12th centuries.
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C.
Sukerchakia dynasty
The Sukerchakia dynasty was a prominent Sikh ruling family in 18th–19th century Punjab, best known for producing Maharaja Ranjit Singh and founding the Sikh Empire.
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D.
Maukhari dynasty
The Maukhari dynasty was an early medieval Indian ruling house centered in northern India, known for its political and military resistance to foreign incursions and its role in the post-Gupta regional power struggles.
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Silhara dynasty
The Silhara dynasty was a medieval Indian ruling family that governed parts of the Konkan region, including the area of present-day Mumbai, between the 8th and 13th centuries.
- 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: Nishapuri dynasty Target entity description: The Nishapuri dynasty was a ruling family of Persian origin that produced several notable Mughal-era nobles in South Asia, including the influential 18th-century Nawab of Awadh, Shuja-ud-Daula.
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A.
Maitraka dynasty
The Maitraka dynasty was a post-Gupta ruling house that governed parts of western India, especially Saurashtra with its capital at Vallabhi, between the 5th and 8th centuries CE.
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B.
Kachchhapaghata dynasty
The Kachchhapaghata dynasty was a medieval Rajput ruling house in central India, noted for its patronage of Hindu temple architecture and regional power between the 10th and 12th centuries.
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C.
Sukerchakia dynasty
The Sukerchakia dynasty was a prominent Sikh ruling family in 18th–19th century Punjab, best known for producing Maharaja Ranjit Singh and founding the Sikh Empire.
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D.
Maukhari dynasty
The Maukhari dynasty was an early medieval Indian ruling house centered in northern India, known for its political and military resistance to foreign incursions and its role in the post-Gupta regional power struggles.
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E.
Silhara dynasty
The Silhara dynasty was a medieval Indian ruling family that governed parts of the Konkan region, including the area of present-day Mumbai, between the 8th and 13th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nawab
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noble ⓘ noble family ⓘ ruling dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Awadh state
NERFINISHED
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Mughal nobility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Mughal Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Persianate ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Persian ⓘ |
| historicalRelevance | influential in 18th-century Awadh politics ⓘ |
| languageTradition | Persian ⓘ |
| memberOf | Nishapuri dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember | Shuja-ud-Daula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalRole | provider of high-ranking Mughal nobles ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Nawab of Awadh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| produced | Mughal-era nobles ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | South Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | Awadh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Mughal era 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: Nishapuri dynasty Description of subject: The Nishapuri dynasty was a ruling family of Persian origin that produced several notable Mughal-era nobles in South Asia, including the influential 18th-century Nawab of Awadh, Shuja-ud-Daula.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.