Sultanate of Ternate
E673115
The Sultanate of Ternate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in the Maluku Islands that dominated the regional spice trade, especially cloves, from the late Middle Ages into the early modern period.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sultanate of Ternate canonical | 5 |
| Ternate Sultanate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7379648 — 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: Sultanate of Ternate Context triple: [Ternate, wasCapitalOf, Sultanate of Ternate]
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A.
Pasai Sultanate
The Pasai Sultanate was an early Islamic kingdom on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional trading hub and a key center for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
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B.
Gorontalo Kingdom
The Gorontalo Kingdom was a historical monarchy on the northern coast of Sulawesi in present-day Indonesia, serving as a major political and cultural center for the Gorontalo people before Dutch colonial rule.
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C.
Tallo Sultanate
The Tallo Sultanate was a historical Makassarese maritime kingdom in South Sulawesi that played a key role in regional trade and Islamization in eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Mataram Sultanate
The Mataram Sultanate was a powerful Islamic kingdom that dominated much of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, shaping the island’s political and cultural history.
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E.
Sultanate of Banten
The Sultanate of Banten was a powerful early modern Islamic trading kingdom in western Java that flourished as a major pepper port and regional maritime power in Southeast Asia.
- 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: Sultanate of Ternate Target entity description: The Sultanate of Ternate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in the Maluku Islands that dominated the regional spice trade, especially cloves, from the late Middle Ages into the early modern period.
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A.
Pasai Sultanate
The Pasai Sultanate was an early Islamic kingdom on the northern coast of Sumatra that became a major regional trading hub and a key center for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
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B.
Gorontalo Kingdom
The Gorontalo Kingdom was a historical monarchy on the northern coast of Sulawesi in present-day Indonesia, serving as a major political and cultural center for the Gorontalo people before Dutch colonial rule.
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C.
Tallo Sultanate
The Tallo Sultanate was a historical Makassarese maritime kingdom in South Sulawesi that played a key role in regional trade and Islamization in eastern Indonesia.
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D.
Mataram Sultanate
The Mataram Sultanate was a powerful Islamic kingdom that dominated much of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, shaping the island’s political and cultural history.
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E.
Sultanate of Banten
The Sultanate of Banten was a powerful early modern Islamic trading kingdom in western Java that flourished as a major pepper port and regional maritime power in Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic state
ⓘ
historical polity ⓘ maritime kingdom ⓘ sultanate ⓘ |
| alliedWith | Dutch East India Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Ternate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictedWith |
Portuguese Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Sultanate of Tidore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Malay-Islamic world NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dominantLanguage |
Malay
ⓘ
Ternate language ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn | spice trade ⓘ |
| engagedWith |
Dutch East India Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portuguese Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit |
early modern period
ⓘ
late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
Maluku peoples
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ternate people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMaritimeOrientation |
Indian Ocean trade network
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pacific trade routes ⓘ |
| hasPortCity | Ternate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligionSchool | Sunni Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRulerTitle | Sultan ⓘ |
| historicalEra | precolonial Indonesia ⓘ |
| influencedRegion |
Maluku Islands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Indonesia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
domination of clove trade
ⓘ
long-distance maritime trade ⓘ naval power ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eastern Indonesia
ⓘ
Maluku Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorExport | cloves ⓘ |
| partOf | Spice Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystemFeature | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| region | North Maluku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religionAdopted | Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionAdoptedCentury | 15th century ⓘ |
| sharesRegionWith |
Sultanate of Bacan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sultanate of Jailolo NERFINISHED ⓘ Sultanate of Tidore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strategicFor | control of clove-producing islands ⓘ |
| successorState | Ternate City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sultanate of Ternate Description of subject: The Sultanate of Ternate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in the Maluku Islands that dominated the regional spice trade, especially cloves, from the late Middle Ages into the early modern period.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ternate Sultanate