Sher Shah Suri
E111634
Sher Shah Suri was a 16th-century Afghan ruler of northern India who founded the Sur Empire and is renowned for administrative reforms and infrastructure projects like the Grand Trunk Road.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sher Shah Suri canonical | 14 |
| Islam Shah Suri | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T697103 — 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: Sher Shah Suri Context triple: [Humayun, lostThroneTo, Sher Shah Suri]
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A.
Sikandar Lodi
Sikandar Lodi was a prominent ruler of the Lodi dynasty known for consolidating the Delhi Sultanate’s power, founding the city of Agra, and promoting administrative and agricultural reforms.
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B.
Bahlul Lodi
Bahlul Lodi was the founder of the Lodi dynasty and a 15th-century Afghan ruler who became Sultan of Delhi and restored a measure of stability to the declining Delhi Sultanate.
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C.
Ibrahim Lodi
Ibrahim Lodi was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate’s Lodi dynasty, whose defeat by Babur at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 marked the beginning of Mughal rule in India.
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D.
Bairam Khan
Bairam Khan was a prominent 16th-century Mughal statesman and military commander who served as regent and chief mentor to the young Emperor Akbar, playing a crucial role in consolidating Mughal rule in India.
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E.
Akbar
Akbar was a powerful 16th-century Mughal emperor renowned for expanding and consolidating his empire in India and promoting religious tolerance and administrative reforms.
- 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: Sher Shah Suri Target entity description: Sher Shah Suri was a 16th-century Afghan ruler of northern India who founded the Sur Empire and is renowned for administrative reforms and infrastructure projects like the Grand Trunk Road.
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A.
Sikandar Lodi
Sikandar Lodi was a prominent ruler of the Lodi dynasty known for consolidating the Delhi Sultanate’s power, founding the city of Agra, and promoting administrative and agricultural reforms.
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B.
Bahlul Lodi
Bahlul Lodi was the founder of the Lodi dynasty and a 15th-century Afghan ruler who became Sultan of Delhi and restored a measure of stability to the declining Delhi Sultanate.
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C.
Ibrahim Lodi
Ibrahim Lodi was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate’s Lodi dynasty, whose defeat by Babur at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 marked the beginning of Mughal rule in India.
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D.
Bairam Khan
Bairam Khan was a prominent 16th-century Mughal statesman and military commander who served as regent and chief mentor to the young Emperor Akbar, playing a crucial role in consolidating Mughal rule in India.
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E.
Akbar
Akbar was a powerful 16th-century Mughal emperor renowned for expanding and consolidating his empire in India and promoting religious tolerance and administrative reforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afghan
ⓘ
Muslim ⓘ emperor ⓘ founder of empire ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1486 ⓘ |
| built |
Grand Trunk Road
ⓘ
Purana Qila in Delhi ⓘ Sher Shah Suri Tomb in Sasaram ⓘ caravanserais along major roads ⓘ milestones along roads ⓘ road from Sonargaon to Peshawar ⓘ wells along roads ⓘ |
| capital |
Delhi
ⓘ
Sasaram ⓘ |
| conflict |
Mughal dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal Empire under Humayun
|
| deathCause | accidental explosion of gunpowder ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1545 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Sur dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Pashtuns
ⓘ
surface form:
Pashtun
|
| father | Hasan Khan Sur ⓘ |
| founded | Sur Empire ⓘ |
| fullName | Farid Khan ⓘ |
| implemented |
classification of land by fertility
ⓘ
measurement of land in bighas ⓘ |
| introduced | Rupiya silver coin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
administrative reforms
ⓘ
currency reforms ⓘ military reforms ⓘ postal system reforms ⓘ revenue reforms ⓘ road building ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Persian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
|
| policy |
merit-based appointment of officials
ⓘ
promotion of trade and commerce ⓘ protection of peasants ⓘ |
| predecessor | Humayun ⓘ |
| rebuilt | ancient Uttarapatha trade route ⓘ |
| reformed | land revenue assessment ⓘ |
| regnalName | Sher Shah Suri self-link ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1545 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1540 ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| ruledRegion |
Bengal
ⓘ
Bihar ⓘ Delhi ⓘ northern India ⓘ
surface form:
Northern India
Punjab ⓘ Sind ⓘ |
| standardized | weights and measures ⓘ |
| successor |
Sher Shah Suri
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Islam Shah Suri
|
| tribe | Sur tribe ⓘ |
| wonBattle |
Battle of Chausa
ⓘ
Battle of Kannauj ⓘ |
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: Sher Shah Suri Description of subject: Sher Shah Suri was a 16th-century Afghan ruler of northern India who founded the Sur Empire and is renowned for administrative reforms and infrastructure projects like the Grand Trunk Road.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Islam Shah Suri
this entity surface form:
Islam Shah Suri
subject surface form:
Grand Trunk Road