Shirvan Khanate
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The Shirvan Khanate was an 18th–19th century khanate in the eastern Caucasus, centered in present-day Azerbaijan, that became a vassal and later a territorial acquisition of the Russian Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shirvan Khanate canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9533372 — 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: Shirvan Khanate Context triple: [Treaty of Gulistan, territoryCededIncluded, Shirvan Khanate]
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A.
Karabakh Khanate
The Karabakh Khanate was an 18th–19th century Turkic-ruled khanate in the South Caucasus, centered in the Karabakh region and later incorporated into the Russian Empire.
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B.
Ganja Khanate
The Ganja Khanate was an 18th–19th century Persian-ruled khanate in the South Caucasus centered on the city of Ganja, in what is now western Azerbaijan.
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C.
Kasim Khanate
The Kasim Khanate was a small Tatar vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and later Russia, centered on the town of Kasimov and inhabited by Muslim Tatars serving as allies and buffer against other steppe powers.
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D.
Khanate of Bukhara
The Khanate of Bukhara was a Central Asian Muslim state centered on the historic city of Bukhara, known for its role as a major political, cultural, and commercial hub along the Silk Road from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
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E.
Khanate of Khiva
The Khanate of Khiva was a Central Asian Turkic khanate centered around the oasis city of Khiva, which existed from the early 16th century until its incorporation into the Russian Empire in the late 19th 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: Shirvan Khanate Target entity description: The Shirvan Khanate was an 18th–19th century khanate in the eastern Caucasus, centered in present-day Azerbaijan, that became a vassal and later a territorial acquisition of the Russian Empire.
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A.
Karabakh Khanate
The Karabakh Khanate was an 18th–19th century Turkic-ruled khanate in the South Caucasus, centered in the Karabakh region and later incorporated into the Russian Empire.
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B.
Ganja Khanate
The Ganja Khanate was an 18th–19th century Persian-ruled khanate in the South Caucasus centered on the city of Ganja, in what is now western Azerbaijan.
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C.
Kasim Khanate
The Kasim Khanate was a small Tatar vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and later Russia, centered on the town of Kasimov and inhabited by Muslim Tatars serving as allies and buffer against other steppe powers.
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D.
Khanate of Bukhara
The Khanate of Bukhara was a Central Asian Muslim state centered on the historic city of Bukhara, known for its role as a major political, cultural, and commercial hub along the Silk Road from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
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E.
Khanate of Khiva
The Khanate of Khiva was a Central Asian Turkic khanate centered around the oasis city of Khiva, which existed from the early 16th century until its incorporation into the Russian Empire in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Shirvan Khanate Description of subject: The Shirvan Khanate was an 18th–19th century khanate in the eastern Caucasus, centered in present-day Azerbaijan, that became a vassal and later a territorial acquisition of the Russian Empire.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.