Yassa
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Yassa was the codified legal and administrative code traditionally attributed to Genghis Khan that governed the Mongol Empire and its successor states.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3176860 — 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: Yassa Context triple: [Chagatai Khanate, legalSystem, Yassa]
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A.
Kandia
Kandia is a remote valley and settlement area located within Pakistan’s Kohistan mountain ranges, known for its rugged terrain and isolated communities.
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B.
Buhera
Buhera is a rural town and district center in eastern Zimbabwe known for its agricultural activities and location within Manicaland Province.
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C.
Yewa
Yewa is a prominent Yoruba sub-group in southwestern Nigeria, primarily inhabiting the western part of Ogun State near the border with Benin.
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D.
Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
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E.
Yakurr
Yakurr is a local government area in southeastern Nigeria known for its rich cultural heritage and predominantly agrarian communities.
- 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: Yassa Target entity description: Yassa was the codified legal and administrative code traditionally attributed to Genghis Khan that governed the Mongol Empire and its successor states.
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A.
Kandia
Kandia is a remote valley and settlement area located within Pakistan’s Kohistan mountain ranges, known for its rugged terrain and isolated communities.
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B.
Buhera
Buhera is a rural town and district center in eastern Zimbabwe known for its agricultural activities and location within Manicaland Province.
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C.
Yewa
Yewa is a prominent Yoruba sub-group in southwestern Nigeria, primarily inhabiting the western part of Ogun State near the border with Benin.
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D.
Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
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E.
Yakurr
Yakurr is a local government area in southeastern Nigeria known for its rich cultural heritage and predominantly agrarian communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mongol law
ⓘ
administrative code ⓘ law code ⓘ legal code ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Great Yassa
ⓘ
Jasaq ⓘ Yassa ⓘ
surface form:
Yasa
|
| appliedIn |
Mongol Empire
ⓘ
successor states of the Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mongol conquests
ⓘ
surface form:
Mongol military campaigns
imperial administration of the Mongols ⓘ |
| attributedTo | Genghis Khan ⓘ |
| characteristic |
emphasis on loyalty to the khan
ⓘ
emphasis on military discipline ⓘ emphasis on obedience to authority ⓘ largely oral in transmission ⓘ partly secret in content ⓘ strict and severe penalties ⓘ |
| containsProvisionsOn |
administrative hierarchy
ⓘ
criminal law ⓘ duties of officials ⓘ family law ⓘ military organization ⓘ punishments for disobedience ⓘ religious tolerance ⓘ rules of conduct for subjects ⓘ taxation ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
Genghis Khan
ⓘ
successor khans of the Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| governed |
conduct of envoys and messengers
ⓘ
distribution of war booty ⓘ hunting regulations ⓘ relations among Mongol nobles ⓘ treatment of prisoners ⓘ |
| historicalDebate |
exact text not preserved
ⓘ
extent of codification disputed by historians ⓘ |
| influenced |
legal practices in the Chagatai Khanate
ⓘ
legal practices in the Golden Horde ⓘ legal practices in the Ilkhanate ⓘ legal practices in the Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| languageContext | Mongolian language milieu ⓘ |
| legalStatus | supreme law of the Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| purpose |
govern the Mongol Empire
ⓘ
maintain discipline among Mongols ⓘ regulate civil administration ⓘ regulate military affairs ⓘ unify diverse peoples under Mongol rule ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 13th century ⓘ |
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: Yassa Description of subject: Yassa was the codified legal and administrative code traditionally attributed to Genghis Khan that governed the Mongol Empire and its successor states.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yasa
subject surface form:
Mongol Empire administration
this entity surface form:
Yasa