Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah
E180290
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah was the 14th-century founder of the independent Sultanate of Bengal and the first ruler to unify its territories under a single Muslim dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1569455 — 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: Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah Context triple: [Bengal Sultanate, notableRuler, Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah]
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A.
Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Alauddin Riayat Shah II was a 16th-century Malay ruler who became the first sultan of Johor after the fall of the Malacca Sultanate.
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B.
Najm-ud-Daulah
Najm-ud-Daulah was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal who succeeded his father Mir Jafar under the dominance of the British East India Company.
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C.
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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D.
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim, better known by his regnal name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal emperor of India, renowned for his patronage of the arts and relatively liberal, if often indulgent, rule in the early 17th century.
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E.
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.
- 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: Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah Target entity description: Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah was the 14th-century founder of the independent Sultanate of Bengal and the first ruler to unify its territories under a single Muslim dynasty.
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A.
Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Alauddin Riayat Shah II was a 16th-century Malay ruler who became the first sultan of Johor after the fall of the Malacca Sultanate.
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B.
Najm-ud-Daulah
Najm-ud-Daulah was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal who succeeded his father Mir Jafar under the dominance of the British East India Company.
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C.
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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D.
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim, better known by his regnal name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal emperor of India, renowned for his patronage of the arts and relatively liberal, if often indulgent, rule in the early 17th century.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
14th-century monarch
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Muslim ruler ⓘ Sultan of Bengal ⓘ founder of a state ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith | medieval Bengal ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 14th century ⓘ |
| continentOfRule | Asia ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Bengal Sultanate ⓘ |
| dynasticRole | first ruler of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty ⓘ |
| dynasty | Ilyas Shahi dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Turkic ⓘ |
| founded |
Bengal Sultanate
ⓘ
Ilyas Shahi dynasty ⓘ |
| governmentFormEstablished | independent sultanate ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt | Persian ⓘ |
| legacy |
established long-lasting Muslim rule in Bengal
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laid foundations for later cultural and economic development of Bengal ⓘ |
| monarchType | sultan ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
asserting independence of Bengal from Delhi
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establishing a centralized administration in Bengal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding the independent Sultanate of Bengal
ⓘ
unifying Bengal under a single Muslim dynasty ⓘ |
| politicalStatusOfRealm | independent state ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Sultan of Bengal ⓘ |
| predecessorState | Delhi Sultanate ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Bengal
ⓘ
Gauda ⓘ Lakhnauti ⓘ Satgaon ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousIdentity | Sunni Muslim ⓘ |
| subcontinentOfRule |
South Asia
ⓘ
surface form:
Indian subcontinent
|
| successorState | Bengal Sultanate ⓘ |
| territorialAchievement | unification of Bengal under one rule ⓘ |
| title |
Shams al-Din
ⓘ
Sultan ⓘ |
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: Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah Description of subject: Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah was the 14th-century founder of the independent Sultanate of Bengal and the first ruler to unify its territories under a single Muslim dynasty.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.