Shah Jalal
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Shah Jalal was a revered 14th-century Sufi saint and Islamic scholar credited with spreading Islam in the Sylhet region of present-day Bangladesh.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shah Jalal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6163810 — 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: Shah Jalal Context triple: [Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, namedAfter, Shah Jalal]
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A.
Al Mahmud
Al Mahmud was a prominent Bangladeshi poet and novelist renowned for his modernist style and powerful depictions of rural life, nationalism, and the Liberation War in Bengali literature.
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B.
Yunus Khan
Yunus Khan was a 15th-century Moghul khan of Moghulistan and the maternal grandfather of the Mughal emperor Babur.
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C.
Qutb al-Din Mawdud
Qutb al-Din Mawdud was a 12th-century Zengid ruler of Mosul known for consolidating Zengid power in northern Iraq during the period of the Crusades.
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D.
Sultan Mahmud
Sultan Mahmud was an Ottoman naval vessel that took part in the 1827 Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence.
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E.
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin was a central early Druze religious leader and theologian who helped shape and consolidate the community’s doctrines and identity.
- 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: Shah Jalal Target entity description: Shah Jalal was a revered 14th-century Sufi saint and Islamic scholar credited with spreading Islam in the Sylhet region of present-day Bangladesh.
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A.
Al Mahmud
Al Mahmud was a prominent Bangladeshi poet and novelist renowned for his modernist style and powerful depictions of rural life, nationalism, and the Liberation War in Bengali literature.
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B.
Yunus Khan
Yunus Khan was a 15th-century Moghul khan of Moghulistan and the maternal grandfather of the Mughal emperor Babur.
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C.
Qutb al-Din Mawdud
Qutb al-Din Mawdud was a 12th-century Zengid ruler of Mosul known for consolidating Zengid power in northern Iraq during the period of the Crusades.
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D.
Sultan Mahmud
Sultan Mahmud was an Ottoman naval vessel that took part in the 1827 Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence.
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E.
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin was a central early Druze religious leader and theologian who helped shape and consolidate the community’s doctrines and identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim missionary
ⓘ
Sufi saint ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Sylhet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Islamization of Sylhet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sufi networks in medieval Bengal ⓘ |
| burialSite | Dargah of Shah Jalal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 14th century ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
educational institutions named after him in Bangladesh
ⓘ
mosques named after him in Bangladesh ⓘ |
| countryOfVeneration |
Bangladesh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
important figure in Bengali Muslim identity
ⓘ
subject of hagiographical literature in Bengal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic theology
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Sufi teaching ⓘ missionary work ⓘ |
| hasMausoleum | Dargah of Shah Jalal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlaceNamedAfter |
Hazrat Shahjalal Mazar Sharif area in Sylhet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shahjalal International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Shahjalal University of Science and Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Hazrat Shah Jalal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shah Jalal ad-Din NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | spread of Islam in northeastern Bengal ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Sufi missionary activities in Bengal
ⓘ
spiritual leadership in Sylhet region ⓘ spreading Islam in Sylhet ⓘ |
| legacy |
inspiration for Sufi orders in Bengal
ⓘ
major pilgrimage site at his shrine in Sylhet ⓘ |
| movement | Sufism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Sylhet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Bengal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sylhet NERFINISHED ⓘ present-day Bangladesh ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | key figure in early Muslim presence in northeastern Bengal ⓘ |
| spiritualTradition | Sunni Sufism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status |
revered saint in Bangladesh
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widely venerated in Sylhet region ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
patron saint of Sylhet
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wali (friend of God) ⓘ |
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: Shah Jalal Description of subject: Shah Jalal was a revered 14th-century Sufi saint and Islamic scholar credited with spreading Islam in the Sylhet region of present-day Bangladesh.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.