Pasai Sultanate
E161947
The Pasai Sultanate was an early Islamic kingdom on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional trading hub and a key center for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pasai Sultanate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1394958 — 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: Pasai Sultanate Context triple: [Malacca Sultanate, tradePartner, Pasai Sultanate]
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A.
Mataram Sultanate
The Mataram Sultanate was a powerful Islamic kingdom that dominated much of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, shaping the island’s political and cultural history.
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B.
Singhasari Kingdom
The Singhasari Kingdom was a 13th-century Hindu-Buddhist Javanese kingdom in East Java, Indonesia, known for its role in regional expansion and as a precursor to the Majapahit Empire.
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C.
Yogyakarta Sultanate
The Yogyakarta Sultanate is a historic Javanese monarchy in central Java that continues today as a culturally influential royal institution with special autonomous status within Indonesia.
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D.
Aceh Sultanate
The Aceh Sultanate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in northern Sumatra that became a major regional trading and religious center in the 16th–17th centuries.
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E.
Kediri Kingdom
The Kediri Kingdom was a powerful medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist state in eastern Java, renowned for its flourishing literature, trade, and cultural achievements.
- 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: Pasai Sultanate Target entity description: The Pasai Sultanate was an early Islamic kingdom on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional trading hub and a key center for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
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A.
Mataram Sultanate
The Mataram Sultanate was a powerful Islamic kingdom that dominated much of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, shaping the island’s political and cultural history.
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B.
Singhasari Kingdom
The Singhasari Kingdom was a 13th-century Hindu-Buddhist Javanese kingdom in East Java, Indonesia, known for its role in regional expansion and as a precursor to the Majapahit Empire.
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C.
Yogyakarta Sultanate
The Yogyakarta Sultanate is a historic Javanese monarchy in central Java that continues today as a culturally influential royal institution with special autonomous status within Indonesia.
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D.
Aceh Sultanate
The Aceh Sultanate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in northern Sumatra that became a major regional trading and religious center in the 16th–17th centuries.
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E.
Kediri Kingdom
The Kediri Kingdom was a powerful medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist state in eastern Java, renowned for its flourishing literature, trade, and cultural achievements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic kingdom
ⓘ
former country ⓘ historical state ⓘ sultanate ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Samudera Pasai
ⓘ
Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
surface form:
Samudera-Pasai Sultanate
|
| capital |
Pasai
ⓘ
Samudera ⓘ |
| conqueredBy | Aceh Sultanate ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| currency | gold dinar ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
gold trade
ⓘ
maritime trade ⓘ pepper trade ⓘ |
| endCause | incorporation into Aceh Sultanate ⓘ |
| endTime | 16th century ⓘ |
| firstRuler | Malik al-Saleh ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Malik al-Saleh ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| inception | c. 1267 ⓘ |
| influenced |
later Malay sultanates
ⓘ
spread of Islam in the Malay world ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a major regional trading hub
ⓘ
being an early Islamic kingdom in Southeast Asia ⓘ early use of Malay as an Islamic literary language ⓘ role in the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Strait of Malacca
ⓘ
surface form:
Strait of Malacca region
|
| locatedInPresentDay | Indonesia ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northern coast of Sumatra ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Sumatra
ⓘ
surface form:
island of Sumatra
|
| neighboringState |
Aceh Sultanate
ⓘ
Malacca Sultanate ⓘ |
| officialReligion | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indian Ocean trade network
ⓘ
Islamic trading networks ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
conquest by the Aceh Sultanate
ⓘ
conversion of ruler Malik al-Saleh to Islam ⓘ emergence as first major Islamic polity in the Indonesian archipelago ⓘ |
| sourceOfInformation | Ibn Battuta's travel accounts ⓘ |
| startTime | 13th century ⓘ |
| tradePartners |
Arabian Peninsula
ⓘ
China ⓘ India ⓘ Persia ⓘ other Southeast Asian polities ⓘ |
| usedLanguage | Malay ⓘ |
| usedScript | Arabic script ⓘ |
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: Pasai Sultanate Description of subject: The Pasai Sultanate was an early Islamic kingdom on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional trading hub and a key center for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.