Chögyal Phagpa
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Chögyal Phagpa was a prominent 13th-century Tibetan Buddhist lama and statesman who served as imperial preceptor to the Mongol Yuan court and helped establish Sakya political authority over Tibet.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chögyal Phagpa canonical | 4 |
| Phagpa | 2 |
| Drogön Chögyal Phagpa | 1 |
| Phagpa Lama | 1 |
| Phags-pa Lodrö Gyaltsen | 1 |
| Phagspa Shesrab | 1 |
| Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen | 1 |
| ’Phags-pa Lama | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13453607 — 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: Chögyal Phagpa Context triple: [Sakya school, hasImportantFigure, Chögyal Phagpa]
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A.
Je Tsongkhapa
Je Tsongkhapa was a 14th–15th century Tibetan Buddhist scholar, philosopher, and reformer renowned for systematizing Buddhist doctrine and monastic discipline in Tibet.
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B.
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen was a 14th-century Tibetan Buddhist master and philosopher renowned for systematizing the Jonang school’s distinctive "shentong" (other-emptiness) doctrine.
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C.
Gyalzen Norbu
Gyalzen Norbu is a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Himalayan peak Mountain of the Spirit.
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D.
Ganden Tripa
Ganden Tripa is the title given to the spiritual head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, serving as its highest-ranking lama and official leader.
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E.
Lodro Namgyal
Lodro Namgyal is a prominent Tibetan Buddhist master associated with the Jonang school, known for his contributions to its philosophical and meditative traditions.
- 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: Chögyal Phagpa Target entity description: Chögyal Phagpa was a prominent 13th-century Tibetan Buddhist lama and statesman who served as imperial preceptor to the Mongol Yuan court and helped establish Sakya political authority over Tibet.
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A.
Je Tsongkhapa
Je Tsongkhapa was a 14th–15th century Tibetan Buddhist scholar, philosopher, and reformer renowned for systematizing Buddhist doctrine and monastic discipline in Tibet.
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B.
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen was a 14th-century Tibetan Buddhist master and philosopher renowned for systematizing the Jonang school’s distinctive "shentong" (other-emptiness) doctrine.
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C.
Gyalzen Norbu
Gyalzen Norbu is a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Himalayan peak Mountain of the Spirit.
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D.
Ganden Tripa
Ganden Tripa is the title given to the spiritual head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, serving as its highest-ranking lama and official leader.
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E.
Lodro Namgyal
Lodro Namgyal is a prominent Tibetan Buddhist master associated with the Jonang school, known for his contributions to its philosophical and meditative traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sakya school lama
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Tibetan Buddhist lama ⓘ imperial preceptor ⓘ religious leader ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| advisorTo | Kublai Khan ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Blo-gros rgyal-mtshan
ⓘ
Phags-pa Lodrö Gyaltsen ⓘ
linked to:
Chögyal Phagpa
’Phags-pa Lama ⓘ
linked to:
Chögyal Phagpa
|
| associatedWith |
Mongol Empire
ⓘ
Sakya Monastery ⓘ Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| authorityOver | Tibet ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1235 ⓘ |
| closeAssociate | Kublai Khan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Tibet ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1280 ⓘ |
| designed |
Phagspa script
ⓘ
linked to:
’Phags-pa script
|
| employer |
Yuan dynasty court
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan imperial court
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| era | 13th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tibetan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
calligraphy
ⓘ
politics ⓘ religion ⓘ script design ⓘ |
| helpedEstablish | Sakya hegemony in Tibet ⓘ |
| implementedPolicy | Yuan suzerainty over Tibet ⓘ |
| influenced |
Tibetan-Mongol relations
ⓘ
Yuan dynasty religious policy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating a unified script for the Mongol Empire
ⓘ
establishing Sakya political authority over Tibet ⓘ serving as imperial preceptor to the Mongol Yuan court ⓘ |
| language |
Classical Mongolian
ⓘ
Tibetan ⓘ |
| movement |
Sakya-Mongol alliance
ⓘ
linked to:
Mongol conquest of Tibet
|
| name | Chögyal Phagpa ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Phagspa script
ⓘ
linked to:
’Phags-pa script
|
| patron | Kublai Khan ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Mongol Empire court
ⓘ
Tibet ⓘ Yuan China ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan dynasty
|
| positionHeld |
Head of the Sakya school
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Imperial Preceptor of the Yuan dynasty ⓘ State Preceptor of Tibet ⓘ
linked to:
Panchen Lama
|
| religion |
Buddhism
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Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousSchool | Sakya school ⓘ |
| roleIn | administration of Tibet under Yuan rule ⓘ |
| spiritualTeacherOf | Kublai Khan ⓘ |
| title |
Dishi
ⓘ
Guoshi ⓘ |
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: Chögyal Phagpa Description of subject: Chögyal Phagpa was a prominent 13th-century Tibetan Buddhist lama and statesman who served as imperial preceptor to the Mongol Yuan court and helped establish Sakya political authority over Tibet.
Referenced by (12)
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