Rohini Nilekani
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Rohini Nilekani is an Indian philanthropist, author, and social activist known for founding and supporting several major initiatives in education, water, and civic engagement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rohini Nilekani canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13061714 — 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: Rohini Nilekani Context triple: [Nandan Nilekani, spouse, Rohini Nilekani]
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A.
Sitara Ghattamaneni
Sitara Ghattamaneni is the daughter of Telugu film star Mahesh Babu and has gained public attention in India as a popular star kid and social media personality.
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B.
Rohini Hattangadi
Rohini Hattangadi is an Indian actress acclaimed for her work in theatre, film, and television, notably for her portrayal of Kasturba Gandhi in the film "Gandhi."
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C.
Vani Khosla
Vani Khosla is a member of the prominent Khosla family, known primarily as a daughter of billionaire venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla.
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D.
Shailaja Balakrishnan
Shailaja Balakrishnan is known as the wife of Indian actor Vikram and maintains a largely private life away from the film industry.
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E.
Neeli Bendapudi
Neeli Bendapudi is an Indian-American academic and higher education leader who became the first woman and first person of color to serve as president of Pennsylvania State University.
- 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: Rohini Nilekani Target entity description: Rohini Nilekani is an Indian philanthropist, author, and social activist known for founding and supporting several major initiatives in education, water, and civic engagement.
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A.
Sitara Ghattamaneni
Sitara Ghattamaneni is the daughter of Telugu film star Mahesh Babu and has gained public attention in India as a popular star kid and social media personality.
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B.
Rohini Hattangadi
Rohini Hattangadi is an Indian actress acclaimed for her work in theatre, film, and television, notably for her portrayal of Kasturba Gandhi in the film "Gandhi."
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C.
Vani Khosla
Vani Khosla is a member of the prominent Khosla family, known primarily as a daughter of billionaire venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla.
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D.
Shailaja Balakrishnan
Shailaja Balakrishnan is known as the wife of Indian actor Vikram and maintains a largely private life away from the film industry.
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E.
Neeli Bendapudi
Neeli Bendapudi is an Indian-American academic and higher education leader who became the first woman and first person of color to serve as president of Pennsylvania State University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ social activist ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Arghyam
NERFINISHED
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EkStep Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ Pratham Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Mount Carmel College, Bangalore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children’s literature
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civic engagement ⓘ education ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ water and sanitation ⓘ |
| founded |
Arghyam
NERFINISHED
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EkStep Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ Nagrik (civic engagement initiative) NERFINISHED ⓘ Pratham Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
children’s literature
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fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole | signatory to the Giving Pledge ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
Stillborn – A Story of Child Abuse
NERFINISHED
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children’s books in English ⓘ children’s books in Kannada ⓘ |
| knownFor |
civic engagement and citizen participation
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philanthropy in water sector ⓘ promoting open access children’s books ⓘ supporting education initiatives ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Kannada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Nilekani family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Stillborn – A Story of Child Abuse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
philanthropist
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social worker ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
civic participation
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open knowledge and open content ⓘ public education ⓘ water security ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Co-founder of EkStep Foundation
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Founder of Pratham Books ⓘ Founder-Chairperson of Arghyam ⓘ |
| residence | Bengaluru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Nandan Nilekani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supported |
Pratham (education NGO)
NERFINISHED
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multiple Indian civil society organizations ⓘ |
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: Rohini Nilekani Description of subject: Rohini Nilekani is an Indian philanthropist, author, and social activist known for founding and supporting several major initiatives in education, water, and civic engagement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nandan Nilekani