Kaza of Maʿan
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Kaza of Maʿan was an Ottoman-era administrative district centered on the town of Maʿan in southern Transjordan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kaza of Maʿan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11011754 — 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: Kaza of Maʿan Context triple: [Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, hasBorderWith, Kaza of Maʿan]
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A.
Jufra District
Jufra District is an administrative region in central Libya known for its desert landscapes and strategic location connecting several other Libyan districts.
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B.
Musakhel District
Musakhel District is an administrative district in northeastern Balochistan, Pakistan, known for its predominantly Pashtun population and rugged, mountainous terrain.
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C.
Quneitra Governorate
Quneitra Governorate is a sparsely populated, conflict-affected administrative region in southwestern Syria that includes much of the Syrian-controlled portion of the Golan Heights.
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D.
Qardaha
Qardaha is a town in northwestern Syria best known as the ancestral home of the Assad family, which has dominated the country’s political leadership for decades.
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E.
Jabal Druze State
Jabal Druze State was a semi-autonomous political entity in southern Syria established under French colonial rule and predominantly inhabited by the Druze community.
- 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: Kaza of Maʿan Target entity description: Kaza of Maʿan was an Ottoman-era administrative district centered on the town of Maʿan in southern Transjordan.
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A.
Jufra District
Jufra District is an administrative region in central Libya known for its desert landscapes and strategic location connecting several other Libyan districts.
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B.
Musakhel District
Musakhel District is an administrative district in northeastern Balochistan, Pakistan, known for its predominantly Pashtun population and rugged, mountainous terrain.
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C.
Quneitra Governorate
Quneitra Governorate is a sparsely populated, conflict-affected administrative region in southwestern Syria that includes much of the Syrian-controlled portion of the Golan Heights.
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D.
Qardaha
Qardaha is a town in northwestern Syria best known as the ancestral home of the Assad family, which has dominated the country’s political leadership for decades.
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E.
Jabal Druze State
Jabal Druze State was a semi-autonomous political entity in southern Syria established under French colonial rule and predominantly inhabited by the Druze community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ottoman administrative district
ⓘ
kaza ⓘ |
| borderedRegion |
Hejaz
ⓘ
other districts of Transjordan ⓘ |
| governedBy | kaymakam ⓘ |
| hadFunction |
local administration
ⓘ
maintenance of order ⓘ tax collection ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeCenter |
Maʿan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ma’an
|
| hasCapital |
Maʿan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ma’an
|
| hasCoreSettlement |
Maʿan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ma’an
|
| hasLanguageOfAdministration |
Arabic
ⓘ
Ottoman Turkish ⓘ |
| hasType | sub-provincial district ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Bilad al-Sham ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ottoman Empire
ⓘ
southern Transjordan ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Jordan ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Maʿan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ma’an
|
| partOf | Ottoman Syria ⓘ |
| religionMajority | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Ottoman provincial system
ⓘ
linked to:
Ottoman provincial administration
|
| timePeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ |
| usedAdministrativeLaw | Ottoman law ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | Ottoman era ⓘ |
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: Kaza of Maʿan Description of subject: Kaza of Maʿan was an Ottoman-era administrative district centered on the town of Maʿan in southern Transjordan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.