Mindrolling Monastery
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Mindrolling Monastery is one of the principal monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism’s Nyingma tradition, renowned as a major center of learning, practice, and lineage transmission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mindrolling Monastery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13430021 — 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: Mindrolling Monastery Context triple: [Nyingma school, associatedWith, Mindrolling Monastery]
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A.
Shambali Monastery
Shambali Monastery is a secluded, futuristic temple complex in the Overwatch universe, central to the omnic monk Zenyatta’s order and known as a place of spiritual training and enlightenment.
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B.
Po Lin Monastery
Po Lin Monastery is a major Buddhist temple complex on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island, best known for its large Tian Tan Buddha statue and status as a popular pilgrimage and tourist destination.
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C.
Sera Monastery
Sera Monastery is one of the great Gelug university monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned for its monastic debates and historic role as a major religious and educational center near Lhasa.
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D.
Dzogchen Monastery
Dzogchen Monastery is a major Tibetan Buddhist monastery in eastern Tibet renowned as one of the principal centers for the study and practice of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) teachings.
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E.
Shado-Pan Monastery
Shado-Pan Monastery is a Pandaria-based dungeon in World of Warcraft themed around the elite Shado-Pan order, featuring trials against corrupted monks and powerful Sha enemies.
- 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: Mindrolling Monastery Target entity description: Mindrolling Monastery is one of the principal monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism’s Nyingma tradition, renowned as a major center of learning, practice, and lineage transmission.
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A.
Shambali Monastery
Shambali Monastery is a secluded, futuristic temple complex in the Overwatch universe, central to the omnic monk Zenyatta’s order and known as a place of spiritual training and enlightenment.
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B.
Po Lin Monastery
Po Lin Monastery is a major Buddhist temple complex on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island, best known for its large Tian Tan Buddha statue and status as a popular pilgrimage and tourist destination.
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C.
Sera Monastery
Sera Monastery is one of the great Gelug university monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned for its monastic debates and historic role as a major religious and educational center near Lhasa.
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D.
Dzogchen Monastery
Dzogchen Monastery is a major Tibetan Buddhist monastery in eastern Tibet renowned as one of the principal centers for the study and practice of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) teachings.
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E.
Shado-Pan Monastery
Shado-Pan Monastery is a Pandaria-based dungeon in World of Warcraft themed around the elite Shado-Pan order, featuring trials against corrupted monks and powerful Sha enemies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monastery
ⓘ
Nyingma monastery ⓘ |
| affiliation | Mindrolling lineage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mindrolling Trichen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nyingma school hierarchs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| educationalProgram | nine-year philosophical curriculum ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1676 ⓘ |
| founder |
Rigzin Terdak Lingpa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terdak Lingpa Gyurme Dorje NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
monastic education center
ⓘ
pilgrimage site ⓘ ritual center ⓘ |
| hasInstitute |
Ngagyur Nyingma College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shedra (monastic college) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
Great Stupa of Mindrolling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
tall stupa ⓘ |
| heritage | one of the six major Nyingma monasteries ⓘ |
| hosts |
lay practitioners
ⓘ
monastic community ⓘ |
| languageOfLiturgy | Tibetan ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Clement Town
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dehradun NERFINISHED ⓘ Uttarakhand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainPractice |
Dzogchen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vajrayana rituals ⓘ |
| notableFor |
study of sutra and tantra
ⓘ
training in astrology ⓘ training in calligraphy ⓘ training in medicine ⓘ training in ritual arts ⓘ |
| openTo |
pilgrims
ⓘ
tourists ⓘ |
| originalLocation |
Central Tibet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dranang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reestablishedBy |
Khochhen Rinpoche
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reestablishedIn | 1965 ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
major center of Buddhist learning
ⓘ
major center of Vajrayana practice ⓘ major center of lineage transmission ⓘ |
| school | Nyingma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subtradition | Vajrayana Buddhism 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: Mindrolling Monastery Description of subject: Mindrolling Monastery is one of the principal monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism’s Nyingma tradition, renowned as a major center of learning, practice, and lineage transmission.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.