Emirate of Diriyah
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The Emirate of Diriyah was the first Saudi state, an 18th–19th century Arabian polity that emerged as the center of the early Wahhabi movement and laid the foundations for modern Saudi Arabia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emirate of Diriyah canonical | 4 |
| Emirate of Diriyah (historical central Arabia) | 1 |
| Historic Diriyah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6789176 — 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: Emirate of Diriyah Context triple: [Ottoman–Wahhabi War, conflictBetween, Emirate of Diriyah]
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A.
Sultanate of Nejd
The Sultanate of Nejd was a historical Arabian state in the central Arabian Peninsula that served as a precursor to the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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B.
Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd
The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd was a historical Arabian state ruled by the House of Saud that served as the direct precursor to the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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C.
Kingdom of Hejaz
The Kingdom of Hejaz was an early 20th-century Arab state in western Arabia that controlled the holy cities of Mecca and Medina before being incorporated into modern Saudi Arabia.
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D.
Second Saudi State
The Second Saudi State was a 19th-century Arabian emirate centered in Nejd that restored Saudi rule after the fall of the First Saudi State and laid important foundations for the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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E.
Sharifate of Mecca
The Sharifate of Mecca was a hereditary Arab principality centered on Islam’s holiest city, historically led by sharifs claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad and wielding both religious prestige and local political authority under various larger empires.
- 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: Emirate of Diriyah Target entity description: The Emirate of Diriyah was the first Saudi state, an 18th–19th century Arabian polity that emerged as the center of the early Wahhabi movement and laid the foundations for modern Saudi Arabia.
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A.
Sultanate of Nejd
The Sultanate of Nejd was a historical Arabian state in the central Arabian Peninsula that served as a precursor to the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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B.
Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd
The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd was a historical Arabian state ruled by the House of Saud that served as the direct precursor to the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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C.
Kingdom of Hejaz
The Kingdom of Hejaz was an early 20th-century Arab state in western Arabia that controlled the holy cities of Mecca and Medina before being incorporated into modern Saudi Arabia.
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D.
Second Saudi State
The Second Saudi State was a 19th-century Arabian emirate centered in Nejd that restored Saudi rule after the fall of the First Saudi State and laid important foundations for the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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E.
Sharifate of Mecca
The Sharifate of Mecca was a hereditary Arab principality centered on Islam’s holiest city, historically led by sharifs claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad and wielding both religious prestige and local political authority under various larger empires.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
emirate
ⓘ
historical state ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
First Saudi Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
First Saudi State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Diriyah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Ibrahim Pasha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFoundedWith | Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Ottoman–Saudi War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wahhabi War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conqueredBy |
Egypt Eyalet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country |
First Saudi State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| destroyedBy | Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1818 ⓘ |
| dynasty | House of Saud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1818 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Arabs ⓘ |
| event | Ottoman–Saudi War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Emirate of Nejd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Second Saudi State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
House of Saud
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Muhammad bin Saud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | absolute monarchy ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Al-Hasa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Najd NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of Asir ⓘ parts of Hejaz ⓘ |
| hasRuler |
Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Abdullah bin Saud Al Saud NERFINISHED ⓘ Muhammad bin Saud NERFINISHED ⓘ Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | Salafism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1744 ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arabian Peninsula
ⓘ
Central Arabia NERFINISHED ⓘ Najd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the early center of the Wahhabi movement
ⓘ
being the first Saudi state ⓘ |
| partOf | history of Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| precededBy | tribal polities of Najd ⓘ |
| religion |
Sunni Islam
ⓘ
Wahhabism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleIn | foundation of modern Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
alliance between Muhammad bin Saud and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
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expansion across much of the Arabian Peninsula ⓘ siege and destruction of Diriyah in 1818 ⓘ |
| startTime | 1744 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Emirate of Diriyah Description of subject: The Emirate of Diriyah was the first Saudi state, an 18th–19th century Arabian polity that emerged as the center of the early Wahhabi movement and laid the foundations for modern Saudi Arabia.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Emirate of Diriyah (historical central Arabia)
this entity surface form:
Historic Diriyah