Maiwand
E811906
Maiwand is a village and district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, historically notable as the site of the 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maiwand canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9651490 — 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: Maiwand Context triple: [Battle of Maiwand, location, Maiwand]
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A.
Battle of Maiwand
The Battle of Maiwand was a significant 1880 engagement in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in which Afghan forces inflicted a major defeat on the British, becoming a symbol of Afghan resistance and military valor.
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B.
Battle of Peshawar
The Battle of Peshawar was an 1834 conflict in which the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, with key leadership from general Hari Singh Nalwa, captured Peshawar from the Durrani Afghans, consolidating Sikh control over the region.
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C.
Gandamak
Gandamak is a village in eastern Afghanistan historically significant as the site of key events during the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
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D.
Battle of Kandahar
The Battle of Kandahar was a decisive engagement in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1880) in which British and Indian forces defeated Afghan troops, effectively ending major hostilities in the conflict.
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E.
Battle of Attock
The Battle of Attock was an 1813 conflict in which the Sikh Empire decisively defeated the Durrani Afghans, securing control of the strategic Attock fort on the Indus River.
- 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: Maiwand Target entity description: Maiwand is a village and district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, historically notable as the site of the 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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A.
Battle of Maiwand
The Battle of Maiwand was a significant 1880 engagement in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in which Afghan forces inflicted a major defeat on the British, becoming a symbol of Afghan resistance and military valor.
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B.
Battle of Peshawar
The Battle of Peshawar was an 1834 conflict in which the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, with key leadership from general Hari Singh Nalwa, captured Peshawar from the Durrani Afghans, consolidating Sikh control over the region.
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C.
Gandamak
Gandamak is a village in eastern Afghanistan historically significant as the site of key events during the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
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D.
Battle of Kandahar
The Battle of Kandahar was a decisive engagement in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1880) in which British and Indian forces defeated Afghan troops, effectively ending major hostilities in the conflict.
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E.
Battle of Attock
The Battle of Attock was an 1813 conflict in which the Sikh Empire decisively defeated the Durrani Afghans, securing control of the strategic Attock fort on the Indus River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
district
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| battleDate | 27 July 1880 ⓘ |
| casualtiesSide |
Afghan casualties
ⓘ
heavy British and Indian casualties ⓘ |
| combatant |
British Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
British Indian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ Emirate of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandedBy | Ayub Khan (Afghan commander) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Second Anglo-Afghan War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | district of Kandahar Province ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeType | district ⓘ |
| hasCulturalReference | referenced in Sherlock Holmes stories ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Pashtun population NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Pashto (predominant local language) ⓘ |
| hasMemorial | Battle of Maiwand memorials in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasReligion | predominantly Islam ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | village ⓘ |
| hasTimezone | Afghanistan Time (UTC+4:30) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Battle of Maiwand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Second Anglo-Afghan War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | Battle of Maiwand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kandahar Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maiwand District NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Kandahar–Herat road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Kandahar city NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePersonAssociated | Dr. John Watson (fictional veteran of Battle of Maiwand) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposingCommander | Brigadier General George Burrows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Kandahar Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provinceCapitalRelation | west of Kandahar city ⓘ |
| region | Kandahar region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| result | Afghan victory in Battle of Maiwand ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | key position on route between Kandahar and Herat ⓘ |
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: Maiwand Description of subject: Maiwand is a village and district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, historically notable as the site of the 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.