Mahmud Shah Durrani
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Mahmud Shah Durrani was an 18th–19th century Afghan monarch of the Durrani dynasty who ruled parts of present-day Afghanistan during a period of internal strife and regional power struggles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mahmud Shah Durrani canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T582613 — 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: Mahmud Shah Durrani Context triple: [Durrani Empire, ruler, Mahmud Shah Durrani]
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A.
Zaman Shah Durrani
Zaman Shah Durrani was a late 18th-century Afghan king of the Durrani dynasty whose reign was marked by internal power struggles and failed attempts to expand Afghan influence into India.
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B.
Ahmad Shah Durrani
Ahmad Shah Durrani was the 18th-century Afghan military leader and founder of the modern state of Afghanistan, who established a vast empire in South and Central Asia.
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C.
Timur Shah Durrani
Timur Shah Durrani was an 18th-century Afghan monarch who succeeded Ahmad Shah Durrani and presided over the Durrani Empire during a period of internal fragmentation and regional challenges.
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D.
Nader Shah
Nader Shah was an 18th-century Persian ruler and military conqueror who founded the Afsharid dynasty and briefly restored Iran as a major regional power through his campaigns across the Middle East and India.
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E.
Wajid Ali Shah
Wajid Ali Shah was the last Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), known for his patronage of arts, music, and dance, and for his controversial deposition and exile by the British in 1856.
- 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: Mahmud Shah Durrani Target entity description: Mahmud Shah Durrani was an 18th–19th century Afghan monarch of the Durrani dynasty who ruled parts of present-day Afghanistan during a period of internal strife and regional power struggles.
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A.
Zaman Shah Durrani
Zaman Shah Durrani was a late 18th-century Afghan king of the Durrani dynasty whose reign was marked by internal power struggles and failed attempts to expand Afghan influence into India.
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B.
Ahmad Shah Durrani
Ahmad Shah Durrani was the 18th-century Afghan military leader and founder of the modern state of Afghanistan, who established a vast empire in South and Central Asia.
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C.
Timur Shah Durrani
Timur Shah Durrani was an 18th-century Afghan monarch who succeeded Ahmad Shah Durrani and presided over the Durrani Empire during a period of internal fragmentation and regional challenges.
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D.
Nader Shah
Nader Shah was an 18th-century Persian ruler and military conqueror who founded the Afsharid dynasty and briefly restored Iran as a major regional power through his campaigns across the Middle East and India.
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E.
Wajid Ali Shah
Wajid Ali Shah was the last Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), known for his patronage of arts, music, and dance, and for his controversial deposition and exile by the British in 1856.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Durrani dynasty ruler
ⓘ
King of Afghanistan ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Durrani Empire
ⓘ
Kandahar ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
18th century
ⓘ
19th century ⓘ |
| conflict |
power struggles within the Durrani dynasty
ⓘ
rivalry with Ali Shah Durrani ⓘ rivalry with Shuja Shah Durrani ⓘ |
| country | Durrani Empire ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Durrani Empire
ⓘ
Herat ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Durrani
ⓘ
surface form:
Durrani dynasty
|
| ethnicGroup |
Pashtuns
ⓘ
surface form:
Pashtun
|
| father | Timur Shah Durrani ⓘ |
| givenName |
Mahmud Mirza
ⓘ
surface form:
Mahmud
|
| historicalPeriod |
decline of the Durrani Empire
ⓘ
post-Ahmad Shah Durrani era ⓘ |
| house | Sadozai ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt |
Pashto
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
conflicts with rival Durrani claimants
ⓘ
loss of central authority in Afghanistan ⓘ ruling during internal strife in the Durrani Empire ⓘ |
| occupation | ruler ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Dost Mohammad Khan
ⓘ
surface form:
Emir of Afghanistan
Shah ⓘ
surface form:
Shah of Afghanistan
|
| predecessor | Zaman Shah Durrani ⓘ |
| region |
Central Asia
ⓘ
South Asia ⓘ |
| regnalName | Mahmud Shah Durrani self-link ⓘ |
| reignEnd |
1803
ⓘ
1818 ⓘ |
| reignStart |
1801
ⓘ
1809 ⓘ |
| relative | Ahmad Shah Durrani ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| successor |
Ali Shah Durrani
ⓘ
Shuja Shah Durrani ⓘ |
| territoryRuled |
Herat Province
ⓘ
surface form:
Herat region
parts of present-day Afghanistan ⓘ |
| title |
Padishah
ⓘ
surface form:
Padshah
Shah ⓘ |
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: Mahmud Shah Durrani Description of subject: Mahmud Shah Durrani was an 18th–19th century Afghan monarch of the Durrani dynasty who ruled parts of present-day Afghanistan during a period of internal strife and regional power struggles.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.