Minkhaung I
E790191
Minkhaung I was a prominent early 15th-century king of the Ava Kingdom in Upper Burma, known for consolidating central Burmese power and engaging in protracted wars with neighboring states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minkhaung I canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9230627 — 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: Minkhaung I Context triple: [Kingdom of Ava, notableKing, Minkhaung I]
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A.
Thado Minbya
Thado Minbya was a 14th-century Burmese king who unified central Burma and established the Ava dynasty as a major power in the region.
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B.
King Mindon
King Mindon was a 19th-century Burmese monarch of the Konbaung Dynasty known for his administrative reforms, promotion of Buddhism, and relocation of the royal capital to Mandalay.
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C.
Bodawpaya
Bodawpaya was a powerful late-18th-century Burmese king known for expanding the Konbaung Empire and initiating grand religious and architectural projects, including the unfinished Mingun Pagoda.
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D.
Alaungpaya
Alaungpaya was an 18th-century Burmese king and military leader who unified much of Burma and established the Konbaung Dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of the country.
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E.
King Bagyidaw
King Bagyidaw was a 19th-century Burmese monarch of the Konbaung Dynasty whose reign was marked by territorial expansion and the disastrous First Anglo-Burmese War, which led to major losses of territory to the British.
- 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: Minkhaung I Target entity description: Minkhaung I was a prominent early 15th-century king of the Ava Kingdom in Upper Burma, known for consolidating central Burmese power and engaging in protracted wars with neighboring states.
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A.
Thado Minbya
Thado Minbya was a 14th-century Burmese king who unified central Burma and established the Ava dynasty as a major power in the region.
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B.
King Mindon
King Mindon was a 19th-century Burmese monarch of the Konbaung Dynasty known for his administrative reforms, promotion of Buddhism, and relocation of the royal capital to Mandalay.
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C.
Bodawpaya
Bodawpaya was a powerful late-18th-century Burmese king known for expanding the Konbaung Empire and initiating grand religious and architectural projects, including the unfinished Mingun Pagoda.
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D.
Alaungpaya
Alaungpaya was an 18th-century Burmese king and military leader who unified much of Burma and established the Konbaung Dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of the country.
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E.
King Bagyidaw
King Bagyidaw was a 19th-century Burmese monarch of the Konbaung Dynasty whose reign was marked by territorial expansion and the disastrous First Anglo-Burmese War, which led to major losses of territory to the British.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Burmese monarch
ⓘ
King of Ava ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Ava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Ava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| century | 15th century ⓘ |
| child |
Minye Kyawswa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minye Thihathu NERFINISHED ⓘ Thihathu of Ava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Ava–Hanthawaddy War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1421 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Ava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Ava dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engagedIn | protracted wars with neighboring states ⓘ |
| era | early Ava period ⓘ |
| father | Swa Saw Ke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Minkhaung I of Ava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| knownFor | strengthening Ava as a major Burmese power ⓘ |
| language | Burmese ⓘ |
| militaryLeader | Minye Kyawswa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Shin Saw Gyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
campaigns against Arakan
ⓘ
campaigns against Shan states ⓘ consolidation of central Burmese power ⓘ wars with Hanthawaddy Kingdom ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King ⓘ |
| predecessor | Tarabya of Ava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled | Upper Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignedOver |
Ava Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1421 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1400 ⓘ |
| religion |
Theravada
ⓘ
surface form:
Theravada Buddhism
|
| royalHouse | House of Ava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Shin Bo-Me
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shin Mi-Nauk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Thihathu of Ava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorState | Toungoo Dynasty (later Burmese unification context) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territorialExpansion | central Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | King of Ava 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: Minkhaung I Description of subject: Minkhaung I was a prominent early 15th-century king of the Ava Kingdom in Upper Burma, known for consolidating central Burmese power and engaging in protracted wars with neighboring states.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.