Nilekani
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Nilekani is the surname of Nandan Nilekani, the Indian entrepreneur, co-founder of Infosys, and architect of the Aadhaar digital identity program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nilekani canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13061685 — 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: Nilekani Context triple: [Nandan Nilekani, familyName, Nilekani]
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A.
Ngola
Ngola is an alternative name for the Angolar people, a community of African descent primarily associated with São Tomé and Príncipe.
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B.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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C.
Ndowe
Ndowe is a Bantu language spoken by the Ndowe people along the coastal region of Equatorial Guinea.
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D.
Ndiass
Ndiass is a village in western Senegal that serves as the host community for Blaise Diagne International Airport, one of the country’s main air transport hubs.
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E.
Ngazidja
Ngazidja, also known as Grande Comore, is the largest island of the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean and home to the nation’s capital.
- 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: Nilekani Target entity description: Nilekani is the surname of Nandan Nilekani, the Indian entrepreneur, co-founder of Infosys, and architect of the Aadhaar digital identity program.
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A.
Ngola
Ngola is an alternative name for the Angolar people, a community of African descent primarily associated with São Tomé and Príncipe.
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B.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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C.
Ndowe
Ndowe is a Bantu language spoken by the Ndowe people along the coastal region of Equatorial Guinea.
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D.
Ndiass
Ndiass is a village in western Senegal that serves as the host community for Blaise Diagne International Airport, one of the country’s main air transport hubs.
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E.
Ngazidja
Ngazidja, also known as Grande Comore, is the largest island of the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean and home to the nation’s capital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Government of India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Joseph Schumpeter Prize
NERFINISHED
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Padma Bhushan ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
EkStep Foundation
NERFINISHED
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Infosys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| candidacyInElection | 2014 Indian general election ⓘ |
| child |
Janhavi Nilekani
NERFINISHED
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Nihar Nilekani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded |
EkStep Foundation
NERFINISHED
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Infosys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-06-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Infosys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Nilekani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
information technology
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public policy ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Nandan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Infosys
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leading Aadhaar implementation ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Hindi ⓘ Kannada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Indian National Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Nandan Nilekani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aadhaar digital identity program
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bengaluru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Infosys
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Chairman of Infosys NERFINISHED ⓘ Chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India ⓘ Managing Director of Infosys ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| residence | Bengaluru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInProject | architect of Aadhaar ⓘ |
| sector |
digital identity
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software industry ⓘ |
| spouse | Rohini Nilekani 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: Nilekani Description of subject: Nilekani is the surname of Nandan Nilekani, the Indian entrepreneur, co-founder of Infosys, and architect of the Aadhaar digital identity program.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nandan Nilekani