Sayyid dynasty
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The Sayyid dynasty was a Muslim ruling family that governed the Delhi Sultanate in northern India during the 15th century, following the Tughlaqs and preceding the Lodis.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sayyid dynasty canonical | 20 |
| Sayyid dynasty (as ruling house of Delhi) | 1 |
| Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate | 1 |
| Sayyid rulers of Delhi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T547312 — 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: Sayyid dynasty Context triple: [Delhi Sultanate, hasPart, Sayyid dynasty]
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A.
Tughlaq dynasty
The Tughlaq dynasty was a medieval Muslim ruling family that governed much of the Indian subcontinent from Delhi in the 14th century, noted for ambitious but often unstable administrative and architectural projects.
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B.
Khalji dynasty
The Khalji dynasty was a Turkic Muslim ruling family that controlled the Delhi Sultanate in northern India from 1290 to 1320, noted for its military expansion under Alauddin Khalji and significant administrative and economic reforms.
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C.
Mamluk dynasty of Delhi
The Mamluk dynasty of Delhi was the first ruling house of the Delhi Sultanate, founded by former slave-soldiers and marking the beginning of Muslim rule in northern India in the 13th century.
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D.
Delhi Sultanate
The Delhi Sultanate was a series of medieval Muslim dynasties that ruled much of northern India from the 13th to the 16th century, laying important political and cultural foundations later built upon by the Mughal Empire.
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E.
Mughal dynasty
The Mughal dynasty was a powerful early modern imperial dynasty that ruled much of the Indian subcontinent from the 16th to the 19th century, renowned for its centralized administration, cultural synthesis, and monumental architecture such as the Taj Mahal.
- 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: Sayyid dynasty Target entity description: The Sayyid dynasty was a Muslim ruling family that governed the Delhi Sultanate in northern India during the 15th century, following the Tughlaqs and preceding the Lodis.
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A.
Tughlaq dynasty
The Tughlaq dynasty was a medieval Muslim ruling family that governed much of the Indian subcontinent from Delhi in the 14th century, noted for ambitious but often unstable administrative and architectural projects.
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B.
Khalji dynasty
The Khalji dynasty was a Turkic Muslim ruling family that controlled the Delhi Sultanate in northern India from 1290 to 1320, noted for its military expansion under Alauddin Khalji and significant administrative and economic reforms.
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C.
Mamluk dynasty of Delhi
The Mamluk dynasty of Delhi was the first ruling house of the Delhi Sultanate, founded by former slave-soldiers and marking the beginning of Muslim rule in northern India in the 13th century.
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D.
Delhi Sultanate
The Delhi Sultanate was a series of medieval Muslim dynasties that ruled much of northern India from the 13th to the 16th century, laying important political and cultural foundations later built upon by the Mughal Empire.
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E.
Mughal dynasty
The Mughal dynasty was a powerful early modern imperial dynasty that ruled much of the Indian subcontinent from the 16th to the 19th century, renowned for its centralized administration, cultural synthesis, and monumental architecture such as the Taj Mahal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Sayyid dynasty Description of subject: The Sayyid dynasty was a Muslim ruling family that governed the Delhi Sultanate in northern India during the 15th century, following the Tughlaqs and preceding the Lodis.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lodi dynasty
this entity surface form:
Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate
this entity surface form:
Sayyid rulers of Delhi
this entity surface form:
Sayyid dynasty (as ruling house of Delhi)