Wazir Ali Khan
E949539
Wazir Ali Khan was a short-lived Nawab of Awadh in the late 18th century, known for his disputed succession and subsequent removal by the British East India Company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wazir Ali Khan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11735390 — 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: Wazir Ali Khan Context triple: [Asaf-ud-Daula, successor, Wazir Ali Khan]
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A.
Sher Ali Khan
Sher Ali Khan was the Amir of Afghanistan from 1863 to 1879, known for his attempts at modernization and for his central role in the geopolitical struggles between the British and Russian empires during the Great Game.
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B.
Bakht Khan
Bakht Khan was a key military leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, known for organizing and commanding rebel forces against British rule.
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C.
Safdar Ali Khan
Safdar Ali Khan was an 18th-century Nawab of the Carnatic in South India, known for his role in the region’s turbulent succession struggles during the decline of the Mughal Empire.
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D.
Mir Qamar-ud-Din Khan
Mir Qamar-ud-Din Khan, better known by his title Nizam-ul-Mulk, was the Mughal noble who established the Hyderabad-based Asaf Jahi dynasty and became the first Nizam of Hyderabad in the early 18th century.
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E.
Mir Qasim Ali Khan
Mir Qasim Ali Khan was the Nawab of Bengal from 1760 to 1763, known for his resistance to the British East India Company and his defeat at the Battle of Buxar.
- 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: Wazir Ali Khan Target entity description: Wazir Ali Khan was a short-lived Nawab of Awadh in the late 18th century, known for his disputed succession and subsequent removal by the British East India Company.
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A.
Sher Ali Khan
Sher Ali Khan was the Amir of Afghanistan from 1863 to 1879, known for his attempts at modernization and for his central role in the geopolitical struggles between the British and Russian empires during the Great Game.
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B.
Bakht Khan
Bakht Khan was a key military leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, known for organizing and commanding rebel forces against British rule.
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C.
Safdar Ali Khan
Safdar Ali Khan was an 18th-century Nawab of the Carnatic in South India, known for his role in the region’s turbulent succession struggles during the decline of the Mughal Empire.
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D.
Mir Qamar-ud-Din Khan
Mir Qamar-ud-Din Khan, better known by his title Nizam-ul-Mulk, was the Mughal noble who established the Hyderabad-based Asaf Jahi dynasty and became the first Nizam of Hyderabad in the early 18th century.
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E.
Mir Qasim Ali Khan
Mir Qasim Ali Khan was the Nawab of Bengal from 1760 to 1763, known for his resistance to the British East India Company and his defeat at the Battle of Buxar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nawab
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | Asaf-ud-Daula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kingdom of Awadh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lucknow court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfLossOfPower | intervention of the British East India Company ⓘ |
| conflictWith | British East India Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Awadh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | late 18th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Indian ⓘ |
| father | Saadat Ali Khan I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Company rule in India ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt |
Persian
ⓘ
Urdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
deposition as Nawab of Awadh
ⓘ
succession dispute in Awadh ⓘ |
| notableFor |
disputed succession to the throne of Awadh
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removal by the British East India Company ⓘ |
| placeOfRule | Lucknow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | client ruler under British influence ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Nawab of Awadh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Asaf-ud-Daula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Oudh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1798 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1797 ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| removedFromOfficeBy | British East India Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Saadat Ali Khan II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Nawab Wazir of Oudh 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: Wazir Ali Khan Description of subject: Wazir Ali Khan was a short-lived Nawab of Awadh in the late 18th century, known for his disputed succession and subsequent removal by the British East India Company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.