Ala ad-Din Tekish
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Ala ad-Din Tekish was a 12th-century Khwarazmian shah who significantly expanded his realm in Central Asia and laid foundations for the later power of the Khwarazmian Empire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ala ad-Din Tekish canonical | 6 |
| Khwarazmshah Qutb al-Din Muhammad | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10791603 — 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: Ala ad-Din Tekish Context triple: [Khwarazmian Empire, ruler, Ala ad-Din Tekish]
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Ala al-Din
Ala al-Din is the given name of the medieval Arab physician and polymath Ibn al-Nafis, renowned for his early description of pulmonary circulation.
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B.
Bairam Beg
Bairam Beg, better known as Bairam Khan, was a prominent 16th-century Turkic military commander and statesman who served as regent and chief advisor to the Mughal emperor Akbar.
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C.
Muhammad Shaybani
Muhammad Shaybani was a prominent Uzbek military leader and khan who unified various Uzbek tribes and founded a powerful dynasty in Central Asia in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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D.
Qutlugh Khwaja
Qutlugh Khwaja was a Mongol military leader of the Chagatai Khanate known for leading major incursions into northern India in the late 13th century.
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E.
Husayn Bayqara
Husayn Bayqara was a late 15th-century Timurid ruler of Herat renowned for presiding over a flourishing court of Persian literature, art, and scholarship.
- 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: Ala ad-Din Tekish Target entity description: Ala ad-Din Tekish was a 12th-century Khwarazmian shah who significantly expanded his realm in Central Asia and laid foundations for the later power of the Khwarazmian Empire.
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A.
Ala al-Din
Ala al-Din is the given name of the medieval Arab physician and polymath Ibn al-Nafis, renowned for his early description of pulmonary circulation.
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B.
Bairam Beg
Bairam Beg, better known as Bairam Khan, was a prominent 16th-century Turkic military commander and statesman who served as regent and chief advisor to the Mughal emperor Akbar.
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C.
Muhammad Shaybani
Muhammad Shaybani was a prominent Uzbek military leader and khan who unified various Uzbek tribes and founded a powerful dynasty in Central Asia in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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D.
Qutlugh Khwaja
Qutlugh Khwaja was a Mongol military leader of the Chagatai Khanate known for leading major incursions into northern India in the late 13th century.
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E.
Husayn Bayqara
Husayn Bayqara was a late 15th-century Timurid ruler of Herat renowned for presiding over a flourishing court of Persian literature, art, and scholarship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Ala ad-Din Tekish Description of subject: Ala ad-Din Tekish was a 12th-century Khwarazmian shah who significantly expanded his realm in Central Asia and laid foundations for the later power of the Khwarazmian Empire.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ala ad-Din Tekish