Allauddin Khan
E801380
Allauddin Khan was a legendary Indian sarod player, composer, and guru who founded the Maihar gharana and trained many of the 20th century’s greatest Hindustani classical musicians.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Allauddin Khan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9459290 — 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: Allauddin Khan Context triple: [Ravi Shankar, teacher, Allauddin Khan]
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A.
Daud Khan Karrani
Daud Khan Karrani was the final Sultan of Bengal from the Karrani dynasty, whose defeat by the Mughal Empire in the late 16th century marked the end of independent Bengal sultanate rule.
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B.
Sikandar Shah
Sikandar Shah was a prominent medieval ruler of Bengal from the Ilyas Shahi dynasty, known for consolidating the sultanate’s power and patronizing architecture and culture.
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C.
Muzaffar Shah I
Muzaffar Shah I was the founder and first sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate in western India, ruling in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
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D.
Sher Shah Suri
Sher Shah Suri was a 16th-century Afghan ruler of northern India who founded the Sur Empire and is renowned for administrative reforms and infrastructure projects like the Grand Trunk Road.
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E.
Alauddin Husain Shah
Alauddin Husain Shah was a prominent late 15th–early 16th century sultan of Bengal known for territorial expansion, administrative reforms, and fostering a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture.
- 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: Allauddin Khan Target entity description: Allauddin Khan was a legendary Indian sarod player, composer, and guru who founded the Maihar gharana and trained many of the 20th century’s greatest Hindustani classical musicians.
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A.
Daud Khan Karrani
Daud Khan Karrani was the final Sultan of Bengal from the Karrani dynasty, whose defeat by the Mughal Empire in the late 16th century marked the end of independent Bengal sultanate rule.
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B.
Sikandar Shah
Sikandar Shah was a prominent medieval ruler of Bengal from the Ilyas Shahi dynasty, known for consolidating the sultanate’s power and patronizing architecture and culture.
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C.
Muzaffar Shah I
Muzaffar Shah I was the founder and first sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate in western India, ruling in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
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D.
Sher Shah Suri
Sher Shah Suri was a 16th-century Afghan ruler of northern India who founded the Sur Empire and is renowned for administrative reforms and infrastructure projects like the Grand Trunk Road.
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E.
Alauddin Husain Shah
Alauddin Husain Shah was a prominent late 15th–early 16th century sultan of Bengal known for territorial expansion, administrative reforms, and fostering a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindustani classical musician
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ music guru ⓘ sarod player ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Alauddin Khan
NERFINISHED
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Baba Allauddin Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Padma Bhushan
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Padma Vibhushan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sangeet Natak Akademi Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bornInPoliticalEntity |
Bengal Presidency
NERFINISHED
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British India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Ali Akbar Khan
NERFINISHED
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Annapurna Devi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1862 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1972 ⓘ |
| employer | Maihar princely state NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Bengali ⓘ |
| founded | Maihar gharana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Hindustani classical music ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ali Akbar Khan
NERFINISHED
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Annapurna Devi NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikhil Banerjee NERFINISHED ⓘ Ravi Shankar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
pakhawaj
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sarod ⓘ sitar ⓘ violin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the Maihar gharana
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training leading Hindustani classical musicians of the 20th century ⓘ |
| lifespanInYears | about 110 ⓘ |
| name | Allauddin Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | orchestral compositions for Maihar Band ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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court musician ⓘ music teacher ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Shibpur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Maihar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | court musician of Maihar ⓘ |
| regionOfBirth | Brahmanbaria District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| spouse | Madina Begum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfDeath | Madhya Pradesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| student |
Ali Akbar Khan
NERFINISHED
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Annapurna Devi NERFINISHED ⓘ Bahadur Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ Jotin Bhattacharya NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikhil Banerjee NERFINISHED ⓘ Pannalal Ghosh NERFINISHED ⓘ Ravi Shankar NERFINISHED ⓘ Sharan Rani NERFINISHED ⓘ Timir Baran NERFINISHED ⓘ V. G. Jog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Allauddin Khan Description of subject: Allauddin Khan was a legendary Indian sarod player, composer, and guru who founded the Maihar gharana and trained many of the 20th century’s greatest Hindustani classical musicians.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.