Mohammad Yaqub Khan
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Mohammad Yaqub Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan in the late 19th century, best known for signing the Treaty of Gandamak with the British during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mohammad Yaqub Khan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9461736 — 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: Mohammad Yaqub Khan Context triple: [Abdur Rahman Khan, predecessor, Mohammad Yaqub Khan]
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A.
Khudayar Khan
Khudayar Khan was a 19th-century ruler of the Kokand Khanate in Central Asia, known for his turbulent reign marked by internal strife and increasing Russian influence in the region.
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B.
Habibullah Khan Marwat
Habibullah Khan Marwat was a Pakistani politician and jurist who became the inaugural Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, playing a key role in shaping the country’s early parliamentary framework.
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C.
Jamal Shah
Jamal Shah is a historical figure interred at the Makli Necropolis, one of the world’s largest and most significant funerary sites in Sindh, Pakistan.
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D.
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, better known by his pen name Mirza Ghalib, was a preeminent 19th-century Urdu and Persian poet whose ghazals are considered masterpieces of South Asian literature.
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E.
Haji Ali Shah Bukhari
Haji Ali Shah Bukhari was a 15th-century Muslim saint and wealthy merchant revered in Mumbai, India, whose tomb is enshrined in the famous Haji Ali Dargah.
- 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: Mohammad Yaqub Khan Target entity description: Mohammad Yaqub Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan in the late 19th century, best known for signing the Treaty of Gandamak with the British during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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A.
Khudayar Khan
Khudayar Khan was a 19th-century ruler of the Kokand Khanate in Central Asia, known for his turbulent reign marked by internal strife and increasing Russian influence in the region.
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B.
Habibullah Khan Marwat
Habibullah Khan Marwat was a Pakistani politician and jurist who became the inaugural Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, playing a key role in shaping the country’s early parliamentary framework.
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C.
Jamal Shah
Jamal Shah is a historical figure interred at the Makli Necropolis, one of the world’s largest and most significant funerary sites in Sindh, Pakistan.
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D.
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, better known by his pen name Mirza Ghalib, was a preeminent 19th-century Urdu and Persian poet whose ghazals are considered masterpieces of South Asian literature.
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E.
Haji Ali Shah Bukhari
Haji Ali Shah Bukhari was a 15th-century Muslim saint and wealthy merchant revered in Mumbai, India, whose tomb is enshrined in the famous Haji Ali Dargah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century ruler
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emir ⓘ human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| citizenship | Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Second Anglo-Afghan War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Barakzai dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | late 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Pashtun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Yaqub Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Sher Ali Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Mohammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasHonorific | Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Central Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Pashto
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Persian ⓘ |
| monarchOf | Emirate of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Mohammad Yaqub Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in the Second Anglo-Afghan War
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signing the Treaty of Gandamak ⓘ |
| notableInteraction | British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
military leader
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politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Emir of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Sher Ali Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Sher Ali Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
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Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| roleDuringWar | Afghan leader in Second Anglo-Afghan War ⓘ |
| signed | Treaty of Gandamak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Treaty of Gandamak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
histories of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
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studies of Anglo-Afghan relations ⓘ |
| title |
Amir of Afghanistan
NERFINISHED
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Emir ⓘ |
| treatyPartner | British Empire 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: Mohammad Yaqub Khan Description of subject: Mohammad Yaqub Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan in the late 19th century, best known for signing the Treaty of Gandamak with the British during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.