Muhammad Shah
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Muhammad Shah was an 18th-century Mughal emperor of India whose long but politically weakened reign saw significant decline of the Mughal Empire and the rise of regional powers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Muhammad Shah canonical | 6 |
| Muḥammad Shah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10233551 — 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: Muhammad Shah Context triple: [Emperor of Hindustan, positionHolder, Muhammad Shah]
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A.
Muhammad Shah
Muhammad Shah was a ruler from the Sayyid dynasty who governed parts of the Delhi Sultanate in the 15th century.
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B.
Muhammad Shah I
Muhammad Shah I was an early and influential sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate in medieval India, known for consolidating its power and expanding its territories.
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C.
Muhammad Shah II
Muhammad Shah II was a 15th-century Sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate in western India, known for continuing the consolidation of the kingdom after the reign of Ahmad Shah I.
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D.
Jahandar Shah
Jahandar Shah was a short-reigning Mughal emperor of India (1712–1713), known for his weak rule, courtly extravagance, and rapid overthrow by his nephew Farrukhsiyar.
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E.
Ahmad Shah Bahadur
Ahmad Shah Bahadur was a mid-18th-century Mughal emperor of India whose weak rule accelerated the decline of the Mughal Empire.
- 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: Muhammad Shah Target entity description: Muhammad Shah was an 18th-century Mughal emperor of India whose long but politically weakened reign saw significant decline of the Mughal Empire and the rise of regional powers.
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A.
Muhammad Shah
Muhammad Shah was a ruler from the Sayyid dynasty who governed parts of the Delhi Sultanate in the 15th century.
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B.
Muhammad Shah I
Muhammad Shah I was an early and influential sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate in medieval India, known for consolidating its power and expanding its territories.
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C.
Muhammad Shah II
Muhammad Shah II was a 15th-century Sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate in western India, known for continuing the consolidation of the kingdom after the reign of Ahmad Shah I.
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D.
Jahandar Shah
Jahandar Shah was a short-reigning Mughal emperor of India (1712–1713), known for his weak rule, courtly extravagance, and rapid overthrow by his nephew Farrukhsiyar.
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E.
Ahmad Shah Bahadur
Ahmad Shah Bahadur was a mid-18th-century Mughal emperor of India whose weak rule accelerated the decline of the Mughal Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mughal emperor
ⓘ
human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Muhammad Shah Rangila NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
decline of central Mughal authority
ⓘ
rise of the Maratha Empire ⓘ strengthening of regional nawabs ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1702-08-07 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Ghaziuddin Nagar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Khwaja Naqshband’s dargah, Delhi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign | Delhi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Ahmad Shah Bahadur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anwar Bakht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mughal Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtLanguage |
Persian
ⓘ
Urdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1748-04-26 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Delhi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Timurid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| father | Jahan Shah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad Shah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Babur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
patronage of arts and culture
ⓘ
political decline of the Mughal Empire ⓘ rise of regional powers in India ⓘ |
| mother | Gauhar-un-Nissa Begum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Rangila NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Battle of Karnal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nader Shah’s invasion of India ⓘ Sack of Delhi in 1739 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronage |
Hindustani classical music
ⓘ
Mughal painting NERFINISHED ⓘ Persian literature ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Emperor of the Mughal Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Rafi ud-Darajat
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shah Jahan II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regnalName | Muḥammad Shah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1748 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1719 ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
ⓘ
Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| spouse |
Badshah Begum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sahiba Mahal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | Padshah-i-Ghazi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Ahmad Shah Bahadur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Badshah of Hindustan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shahanshah 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: Muhammad Shah Description of subject: Muhammad Shah was an 18th-century Mughal emperor of India whose long but politically weakened reign saw significant decline of the Mughal Empire and the rise of regional powers.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Muhammad Shah
this entity surface form:
Muḥammad Shah