Transjordan
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Transjordan was a former British-controlled territory east of the Jordan River that became the Emirate of Transjordan and later the modern Kingdom of Jordan.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Transjordan canonical | 52 |
| Transjordan region | 3 |
| modern-day Jordan | 2 |
| northern Transjordan | 1 |
| southern Transjordan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5673643 — 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: Transjordan Context triple: [Arab Revolt, location, Transjordan]
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A.
ערבה
ערבה היא בקעה מדברית רחבת ידיים בדרום ארץ ישראל וירדן, המשתרעת בין ים המלח למפרץ אילת.
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B.
Northern Jordan
Northern Jordan is a geographic region of Jordan encompassing cities like Irbid and known for its relatively fertile highlands and proximity to the Syrian border.
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C.
southwestern Jordan
Southwestern Jordan is a region of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan that includes parts of the arid desert and mountainous areas near the Red Sea and the borders with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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D.
West Bank
The West Bank is a landlocked territory in the Middle East, located west of the Jordan River, that has been under Israeli occupation since 1967 and is central to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and future Palestinian statehood.
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E.
Hejaz
Hejaz is a historic western region of Saudi Arabia along the Red Sea coast, known as the birthplace of Islam and home to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
- 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: Transjordan Target entity description: Transjordan was a former British-controlled territory east of the Jordan River that became the Emirate of Transjordan and later the modern Kingdom of Jordan.
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A.
ערבה
ערבה היא בקעה מדברית רחבת ידיים בדרום ארץ ישראל וירדן, המשתרעת בין ים המלח למפרץ אילת.
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B.
Northern Jordan
Northern Jordan is a geographic region of Jordan encompassing cities like Irbid and known for its relatively fertile highlands and proximity to the Syrian border.
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C.
southwestern Jordan
Southwestern Jordan is a region of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan that includes parts of the arid desert and mountainous areas near the Red Sea and the borders with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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D.
West Bank
The West Bank is a landlocked territory in the Middle East, located west of the Jordan River, that has been under Israeli occupation since 1967 and is central to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and future Palestinian statehood.
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E.
Hejaz
Hejaz is a historic western region of Saudi Arabia along the Red Sea coast, known as the birthplace of Islam and home to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British mandate territory
ⓘ
former political entity ⓘ historical region ⓘ |
| administeredBy | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Iraq
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ Saudi Arabia NERFINISHED ⓘ Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Amman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colonialStatus | British protectorate ⓘ |
| contains |
Amman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Irbid NERFINISHED ⓘ Karak NERFINISHED ⓘ Ma'an NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| currency | Palestine pound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demonym | Transjordanian ⓘ |
| endPoint | 1946 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Arabs ⓘ |
| event |
creation of Emirate of Transjordan
ⓘ
independence of Transjordan ⓘ |
| geographicalFeature |
Jordan Rift Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
desert plateau ⓘ |
| hasDynasty | Hashemite dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentForm |
British-controlled territory
ⓘ
emirate ⓘ |
| hasRuler | Abdullah I of Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Interwar period
ⓘ
World War II era ⓘ |
| independenceFrom | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| independenceYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| legalBasis | League of Nations Mandate system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Jordan River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Middle East ⓘ |
| mandatePower | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Jordan River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| partOf |
British Empire
ⓘ
Mandate for Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorOf |
Emirate of Transjordan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionType | Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| startPoint | 1921 ⓘ |
| successorState | Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| todayPartOf | Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Transjordan Description of subject: Transjordan was a former British-controlled territory east of the Jordan River that became the Emirate of Transjordan and later the modern Kingdom of Jordan.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Transjordan region
this entity surface form:
Transjordan region
this entity surface form:
southern Transjordan
subject surface form:
Og, king of Bashan
subject surface form:
Og, king of Bashan
this entity surface form:
northern Transjordan
this entity surface form:
modern-day Jordan