Samudera
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Samudera was a prominent early Islamic port city in northern Sumatra that served as the political and commercial center of the Pasai Sultanate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samudera canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6985375 — 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: Samudera Context triple: [Pasai Sultanate, capital, Samudera]
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A.
Oceano
Oceano is a small coastal community in California known for its dunes, beaches, and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Océan
Océan is a coastal department in Cameroon's South Region, known for its Atlantic shoreline and port towns.
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C.
Océan
Océan was a prominent French ship of the line that served as a flagship in major naval engagements during the age of sail.
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D.
The Ocean
"The Ocean" is a hard rock song by Led Zeppelin, known for its heavy riff, shifting time signatures, and closing position on their 1973 album "Houses of the Holy."
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E.
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the world’s third-largest ocean, lying between Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Southern Ocean, and serving as a major route for global trade and maritime activity.
- 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: Samudera Target entity description: Samudera was a prominent early Islamic port city in northern Sumatra that served as the political and commercial center of the Pasai Sultanate.
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A.
Oceano
Oceano is a small coastal community in California known for its dunes, beaches, and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Océan
Océan is a coastal department in Cameroon's South Region, known for its Atlantic shoreline and port towns.
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C.
Océan
Océan was a prominent French ship of the line that served as a flagship in major naval engagements during the age of sail.
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D.
The Ocean
"The Ocean" is a hard rock song by Led Zeppelin, known for its heavy riff, shifting time signatures, and closing position on their 1973 album "Houses of the Holy."
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E.
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the world’s third-largest ocean, lying between Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Southern Ocean, and serving as a major route for global trade and maritime activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
early Islamic port city
ⓘ
former settlement ⓘ historical city ⓘ port city ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Islamization of Sumatra
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spread of Islam in Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| currencyUsed | gold coins ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | 15th century ⓘ |
| flourishedInCentury |
13th century
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14th century ⓘ 15th century ⓘ |
| hasCapitalRoleIn | Pasai Sultanate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | archaeological site ⓘ |
| knownAs | Samudera Pasai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Malay ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Indonesia
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Sumatra NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Sumatra ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Malacca Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernAdministrativeRegion | Aceh Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indian Ocean trade network
NERFINISHED
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Pasai Sultanate NERFINISHED ⓘ maritime Silk Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | sultanate center ⓘ |
| region | Aceh region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousInstitution | mosques ⓘ |
| role |
commercial center of the Pasai Sultanate
ⓘ
political center of the Pasai Sultanate ⓘ |
| subregion | Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Aceh Sultanate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trade |
camphor
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gold ⓘ horses ⓘ pepper ⓘ textiles ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Ibn Battuta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | 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: Samudera Description of subject: Samudera was a prominent early Islamic port city in northern Sumatra that served as the political and commercial center of the Pasai Sultanate.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.