Gowa Sultanate
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The Gowa Sultanate was a powerful maritime Islamic kingdom centered near present-day Makassar that dominated trade and politics in South Sulawesi from the 16th to 17th centuries.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gowa Sultanate canonical | 6 |
| Sultanate of Gowa | 3 |
| Kingdom of Gowa | 1 |
| South Sulawesi historical polities | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2942909 — 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: Gowa Sultanate Context triple: [South Sulawesi, hasHistoricalKingdom, Gowa Sultanate]
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A.
Jambi Sultanate
The Jambi Sultanate was a historical Malay Islamic kingdom centered in present-day Jambi on the east coast of Sumatra, which flourished as a regional trading power and frequently rivaled neighboring sultanates.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Johor-Riau-Lingga Sultanate
The Johor-Riau-Lingga Sultanate was a Malay maritime kingdom that emerged in the 18th century, ruling over parts of the Malay Peninsula and Riau-Lingga archipelago and continuing the political and cultural legacy of the earlier Malacca and Johor sultanates.
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E.
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.
- 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: Gowa Sultanate Target entity description: The Gowa Sultanate was a powerful maritime Islamic kingdom centered near present-day Makassar that dominated trade and politics in South Sulawesi from the 16th to 17th centuries.
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A.
Jambi Sultanate
The Jambi Sultanate was a historical Malay Islamic kingdom centered in present-day Jambi on the east coast of Sumatra, which flourished as a regional trading power and frequently rivaled neighboring sultanates.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Johor-Riau-Lingga Sultanate
The Johor-Riau-Lingga Sultanate was a Malay maritime kingdom that emerged in the 18th century, ruling over parts of the Malay Peninsula and Riau-Lingga archipelago and continuing the political and cultural legacy of the earlier Malacca and Johor sultanates.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic kingdom
ⓘ
historical sultanate ⓘ maritime kingdom ⓘ |
| ally | Tallo Sultanate ⓘ |
| capital | Somba Opu ⓘ |
| conflict |
Bone state
ⓘ
Dutch East India Company ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Malay world ⓘ |
| currency |
gold
ⓘ
silver ⓘ |
| dominantIn |
politics in South Sulawesi
ⓘ
trade in South Sulawesi ⓘ |
| economy |
inter-island maritime trade
ⓘ
rice trade ⓘ spice trade ⓘ |
| endTime | 17th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Makassarese people ⓘ |
| fortification | Fort Somba Opu ⓘ |
| governmentType |
monarchy
ⓘ
sultanate ⓘ |
| influencedRegion | eastern Indonesian archipelago ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cosmopolitan port of Makassar
ⓘ
naval power ⓘ resistance to Dutch expansion ⓘ |
| language |
Makassarese
ⓘ
surface form:
Makassarese language
|
| legalSystem |
Islamic law
ⓘ
customary law (adat) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
South Sulawesi ⓘ Celebes ⓘ
surface form:
Sulawesi
|
| modernLocation | near present-day Makassar ⓘ |
| notableRuler |
Sultan Alauddin of Gowa
ⓘ
Sultan Hasanuddin of Gowa ⓘ |
| portCity | Makassar ⓘ |
| predecessor | Kingdom of Gowa ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousInstitution | mosques ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Makassar War
ⓘ
Treaty of Bongaya (1667) ⓘ
surface form:
Treaty of Bongaya
conversion to Islam in early 17th century ⓘ |
| startTime | 16th century ⓘ |
| successor | Dutch colonial administration in Makassar ⓘ |
| titleOfRuler |
Sultan Hasanuddin of Gowa
ⓘ
surface form:
Sultan of Gowa
|
| tradePartner |
Bugis merchants
ⓘ
Javanese merchants ⓘ Malay merchants ⓘ Portuguese traders ⓘ |
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: Gowa Sultanate Description of subject: The Gowa Sultanate was a powerful maritime Islamic kingdom centered near present-day Makassar that dominated trade and politics in South Sulawesi from the 16th to 17th centuries.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kingdom of Gowa
this entity surface form:
South Sulawesi historical polities
this entity surface form:
Sultanate of Gowa
this entity surface form:
Sultanate of Gowa
this entity surface form:
Sultanate of Gowa