Sonam Tsemo
E1041219
Sonam Tsemo was a prominent 12th-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar and patriarch of the Sakya school, known for his influential philosophical writings and leadership in the Sakya tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sonam Tsemo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13453604 — 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: Sonam Tsemo Context triple: [Sakya school, hasImportantFigure, Sonam Tsemo]
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A.
Nyima Gyaltsen
Nyima Gyaltsen is a mountaineer known for leading the first successful ascent of Myanmar’s highest peak, Hkakabo Razi.
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B.
Teshoo Lama
Teshoo Lama is a wise and compassionate Tibetan Buddhist monk who serves as a spiritual mentor and father figure to the orphaned protagonist in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Kim."
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C.
Gyazumpa Cho
Gyazumpa Cho is one of the high-altitude glacial lakes in Nepal’s Gokyo Lakes system in the Everest region of the Himalayas.
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D.
Lhakpa Tsamchoe
Lhakpa Tsamchoe is a Tibetan actress best known internationally for her role in the film "Seven Years in Tibet."
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E.
Gyaltsab Je
Gyaltsab Je was a principal disciple of Je Tsongkhapa and an early leader and scholar of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
- 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: Sonam Tsemo Target entity description: Sonam Tsemo was a prominent 12th-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar and patriarch of the Sakya school, known for his influential philosophical writings and leadership in the Sakya tradition.
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A.
Nyima Gyaltsen
Nyima Gyaltsen is a mountaineer known for leading the first successful ascent of Myanmar’s highest peak, Hkakabo Razi.
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B.
Teshoo Lama
Teshoo Lama is a wise and compassionate Tibetan Buddhist monk who serves as a spiritual mentor and father figure to the orphaned protagonist in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Kim."
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C.
Gyazumpa Cho
Gyazumpa Cho is one of the high-altitude glacial lakes in Nepal’s Gokyo Lakes system in the Everest region of the Himalayas.
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D.
Lhakpa Tsamchoe
Lhakpa Tsamchoe is a Tibetan actress best known internationally for her role in the film "Seven Years in Tibet."
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E.
Gyaltsab Je
Gyaltsab Je was a principal disciple of Je Tsongkhapa and an early leader and scholar of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist philosopher
ⓘ
Sakya patriarch ⓘ Tibetan Buddhist scholar ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Sakya tradition
ⓘ
linked to:
Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
|
| century | 12th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Tibet ⓘ |
| doctrine |
Madhyamaka philosophy
ⓘ
Tantric Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Vajrayana
|
| era | medieval Tibet ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tibetan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Buddhist philosophy
ⓘ
Mahayana Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
Vajrayana Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Vajrayana
|
| genre |
Buddhist doctrinal commentaries
ⓘ
philosophical treatises ⓘ |
| influenced |
Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism
ⓘ
later Sakya scholars ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Tibetan ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sakya school ⓘ |
| movement |
Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Sakya school
|
| notableFor |
leadership in the Sakya tradition
ⓘ
philosophical writings ⓘ |
| notableRole | early leader of the Sakya lineage ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Sakya ⓘ |
| positionHeld | patriarch of the Sakya school ⓘ |
| region |
Central Tibet
ⓘ
linked to:
central Tibet
|
| religiousOrder | Sakya ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
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: Sonam Tsemo Description of subject: Sonam Tsemo was a prominent 12th-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar and patriarch of the Sakya school, known for his influential philosophical writings and leadership in the Sakya tradition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.