Pagan Empire
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The Pagan Empire was a powerful medieval Burmese kingdom centered on the city of Bagan that unified much of present-day Myanmar and fostered a flourishing of Theravada Buddhism and temple architecture between the 11th and 13th centuries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pagan Dynasty | 2 |
| Pagan Empire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9125100 — 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.
Target entity: Pagan Empire Context triple: [Pagan Kingdom, alsoKnownAs, Pagan Empire]
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Marota Empire
The Marota Empire was a precolonial African state established by the Pedi people in what is now northeastern South Africa.
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Vandal Kingdom
The Vandal Kingdom was a Germanic realm that dominated parts of North Africa and the western Mediterranean in the 5th–6th centuries, notorious for its seaborne power and its role in the decline of the Western Roman Empire.
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Molossian Kingdom
The Molossian Kingdom was an ancient Greek monarchy in Epirus ruled by the Molossian tribe, known for producing the famed king Pyrrhus of Epirus.
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Palmyrene Empire
The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state centered on the city of Palmyra in Syria that, under Queen Zenobia in the 3rd century CE, controlled much of the Roman East before being reconquered by Rome.
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E.
Isher Empire
The Isher Empire is a powerful, far-future interstellar regime in A. E. van Vogt’s science fiction universe, known for its authoritarian rule and its long-standing conflict with the independent, inviolable Weapon Shops.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Pagan Empire Target entity description: The Pagan Empire was a powerful medieval Burmese kingdom centered on the city of Bagan that unified much of present-day Myanmar and fostered a flourishing of Theravada Buddhism and temple architecture between the 11th and 13th centuries.
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A.
Marota Empire
The Marota Empire was a precolonial African state established by the Pedi people in what is now northeastern South Africa.
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B.
Vandal Kingdom
The Vandal Kingdom was a Germanic realm that dominated parts of North Africa and the western Mediterranean in the 5th–6th centuries, notorious for its seaborne power and its role in the decline of the Western Roman Empire.
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C.
Molossian Kingdom
The Molossian Kingdom was an ancient Greek monarchy in Epirus ruled by the Molossian tribe, known for producing the famed king Pyrrhus of Epirus.
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D.
Palmyrene Empire
The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state centered on the city of Palmyra in Syria that, under Queen Zenobia in the 3rd century CE, controlled much of the Roman East before being reconquered by Rome.
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E.
Isher Empire
The Isher Empire is a powerful, far-future interstellar regime in A. E. van Vogt’s science fiction universe, known for its authoritarian rule and its long-standing conflict with the independent, inviolable Weapon Shops.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Burmese kingdom
ⓘ
historical state ⓘ medieval kingdom ⓘ |
| alternateName | Bagan Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Burmese temple architecture ⓘ |
| capital | Bagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDecline |
Mongol invasions
ⓘ
internal fragmentation ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| currency | cowrie shells ⓘ |
| economy | irrigated agriculture ⓘ |
| endTime | 13th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bamar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Myinsaing Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pinya Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ Sagaing Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Pagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
later Burmese kingdoms
ⓘ
spread of Theravada Buddhism in mainland Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Mon kingdoms
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extensive temple construction at Bagan
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flourishing of Theravada Buddhism ⓘ unification of much of present-day Myanmar ⓘ |
| language |
Old Burmese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pali ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Irrawaddy River valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| mainCrop | rice ⓘ |
| nativeName | ပုဂံခေတ် NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRuler |
Alaungsithu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anawrahta NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyansittha NERFINISHED ⓘ Narathihapate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | history of Myanmar ⓘ |
| precededBy | Pagan Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Hinduism
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Mahayana Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ Theravada ⓘ
surface form:
Theravada Buddhism
animism ⓘ |
| significantSite | Bagan Archaeological Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 11th century ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| unified |
Upper Myanmar
NERFINISHED
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parts of Lower Myanmar ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Pagan Empire Description of subject: The Pagan Empire was a powerful medieval Burmese kingdom centered on the city of Bagan that unified much of present-day Myanmar and fostered a flourishing of Theravada Buddhism and temple architecture between the 11th and 13th centuries.
Referenced by (3)
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