Khwarezm

E238042

geographical region historical region

Khwarezm is a historic region in Central Asia, centered around the lower Amu Darya river, that served as an important cultural and political hub for various Iranian and Turkic peoples over many centuries.

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All labels observed (11)

Label	Occurrences
Khwarezm canonical	24
Khwarazm	10
Khorezm	5
Khwarazm (at times)	1
Khwarazm region	1
Khwarazmian civilization	1
Khwarazmian territories in Central Asia	1
Khwarezm area	1
Khwarezm oasis	1
Khwarezm region	1
Khwarizm	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region ⓘ historical region ⓘ
borderedBy	Karakum Desert ⓘ Kyzylkum Desert ⓘ
centeredAround	Amu Darya ⓘ surface form: lower Amu Darya
conqueredBy	Genghis Khan ⓘ Mongol Empire ⓘ
culturalInfluenceOn	Persian culture ⓘ Turkic culture ⓘ
dominantHistoricalLanguage	Khwarazmian ⓘ
dominantHistoricalLanguageFamily	Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Chorasmia ⓘ Khwarezm ⓘ surface form: Khorezm Khwarezm ⓘ surface form: Khwarazm Khwarezm ⓘ surface form: Khwarizm
hasArchaeologicalSites	Ayaz-Kala ⓘ Koy-Krylgan-kala ⓘ Toprak-Kala ⓘ
hasHistoricalInhabitants	Iranian peoples ⓘ Turkic peoples ⓘ
historicalCapital	Urgench ⓘ surface form: Gurganj Kath ⓘ Urgench ⓘ
historicalReligion	Islam ⓘ Zoroastrianism ⓘ
hostedPolity	Afrighid dynasty ⓘ Anushteginid dynasty ⓘ Khwarazmian Empire ⓘ
importantFor	Silk Road commerce ⓘ transoxianan trade routes ⓘ
knownFor	irrigated agriculture ⓘ oasis settlements ⓘ
laterDominantLanguages	Turkic languages ⓘ
locatedIn	Central Asia ⓘ
locatedOnRiver	Amu Darya ⓘ
partlyLocatedIn	modern Afghanistan ⓘ Iran ⓘ surface form: modern Iran modern Kazakhstan ⓘ Turkmenistan ⓘ surface form: modern Turkmenistan modern Uzbekistan ⓘ
producedScholar	Al-Biruni ⓘ
timePeriod	antiquity to early modern period ⓘ
wasCenterOf	Khwarezm self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Khwarazmian civilization Khwarazmian language ⓘ
wasPartOf	Achaemenid Empire ⓘ Islamic Caliphates ⓘ surface form: Islamic Caliphate Khanate of Khiva ⓘ Sasanian Empire ⓘ surface form: Sassanian Empire Timurid dynasty ⓘ surface form: Timurid Empire

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: Khwarezm
Description of subject: Khwarezm is a historic region in Central Asia, centered around the lower Amu Darya river, that served as an important cultural and political hub for various Iranian and Turkic peoples over many centuries.

Referenced by (47)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Turkmens → historicalRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Amu Darya → historicalRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Khanate of Khiva → locatedIn → Khwarezm ⓘ

Khanate of Khiva → historicalRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khorezm

Uzbeks → historicalRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Chagatai Turkic → usedInRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Khorasan → borderedBy → Khwarezm ⓘ

Ögedei Khan → oversawConquestOf → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazmian territories in Central Asia

Ghurid Empire → expandedInto → Khwarezm ⓘ

Oghuz Uzbek → associatedWithRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Al-Khwarizmi → birthPlace → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm

Samanid Empire → hasTerritory → Khwarezm ⓘ

Al-Biruni → placeOfBirthRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Al-Biruni → placeOfActivity → Khwarezm ⓘ

Khiva → locatedInHistoricalRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Sogdia → neighboringRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi → taughtIn → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm

Persianate world → hasRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Yomut → region → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khorezm

Oghuz Yabgu State → borderedBy → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm

Khwarezmian → region → Khwarezm ⓘ

Khwarezmian → historicalRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Khwarezmian → spokenIn → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarezm oasis

Transoxiana → overlapsWith → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarezm region

Northeastern Iranian languages → hasHistoricalRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Volga trade route → connectsCity → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm

Amu Darya Delta → historicalRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Khwarezm → hasAlternativeName → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm

Khwarezm → hasAlternativeName → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khorezm

Khwarezm → hasAlternativeName → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarizm

Khwarezm → wasCenterOf → Khwarezm self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazmian civilization

Muhammad Shaybani → territoryControlled → Khwarezm ⓘ

Shaybanid dynasty → territoryIncludes → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm

Abdullah Khan II → territorialExpansion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Janid dynasty → territoryIncludes → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm

Khorezm People’s Soviet Republic → locatedIn → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khorezm

Arabshahid dynasty → locatedIn → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm region

Oxus River → associatedWithAncientRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

Çärjew → locatedInHistoricalRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarezm area

Mongol conquest of the Khwarezmian Empire → location → Khwarezm ⓘ

Qara Khitai → vassalState → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm (at times)

Jochid dynasty → territory → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm

Jochid → hasTerritory → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm

Mongol-ruled Central Asia → includes → Khwarezm ⓘ

Daşoguz Region → historicalRegionNearby → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khorezm

Ancient Iran → hasPart → Khwarezm ⓘ

ibn Mūsā → associatedWithRegion → Khwarezm ⓘ

this entity surface form: Khwarazm