Adigar
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Adigar was a high-ranking ministerial and administrative title in the Kingdom of Kandy, held by members of the Kandyan aristocracy who served as chief advisors and officials to the monarch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adigar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13493895 — 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: Adigar Context triple: [Kandyan aristocracy, heldTitle, Adigar]
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A.
Kadiria
Kadiria is a town and commune located within Bouira Province in northern Algeria.
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B.
Arrifes
Arrifes is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island in Portugal’s Azores archipelago.
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C.
Hizma
Hizma is a Palestinian village located northeast of Jerusalem in the central West Bank.
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D.
Kadir
Kadir is a masculine given name of Turkish origin commonly used in Turkey and among Turkish-speaking communities.
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E.
Ḍogrī
Ḍogrī is the native name of the Dogri language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Jammu region of India.
- 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: Adigar Target entity description: Adigar was a high-ranking ministerial and administrative title in the Kingdom of Kandy, held by members of the Kandyan aristocracy who served as chief advisors and officials to the monarch.
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A.
Kadiria
Kadiria is a town and commune located within Bouira Province in northern Algeria.
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B.
Arrifes
Arrifes is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island in Portugal’s Azores archipelago.
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C.
Hizma
Hizma is a Palestinian village located northeast of Jerusalem in the central West Bank.
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D.
Kadir
Kadir is a masculine given name of Turkish origin commonly used in Turkey and among Turkish-speaking communities.
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E.
Ḍogrī
Ḍogrī is the native name of the Dogri language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Jammu region of India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative title
ⓘ
government office ⓘ ministerial title ⓘ |
| abolishedInPractice | 19th century ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Kingdom of Kandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kandyan Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kandyan nobility NERFINISHED ⓘ monarchy in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| authorityOver | lower-ranking officials in the Kandyan administration ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Kandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Kandyan Sinhalese society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| duty |
administering royal policies
ⓘ
advising the monarch ⓘ exercising executive authority on behalf of the king ⓘ overseeing provincial administration ⓘ participating in royal council ⓘ |
| governmentBranch | executive branch of the Kandyan kingdom ⓘ |
| hasRankVariant | Maha Adigar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hierarchicalRank | one of the highest offices in the Kandyan kingdom ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early modern Sri Lanka
ⓘ
late medieval Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| influencedBy | South Asian courtly traditions ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sinhala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kandy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeHolderClass | hereditary aristocracy ⓘ |
| officeType |
administrative office
ⓘ
chief advisory office ⓘ high-ranking ministerial office ⓘ |
| partOf | government of the Kingdom of Kandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeldBy | members of the Kandyan aristocracy ⓘ |
| powerBase | landed aristocracy of Kandy ⓘ |
| region | Central Highlands of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedPosition |
Dissava
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maha Adigar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | appointment by the king ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
royal court
ⓘ
state administration ⓘ |
| status | historical title ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | King of Kandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Kandyan aristocracy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kandyan monarchy 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: Adigar Description of subject: Adigar was a high-ranking ministerial and administrative title in the Kingdom of Kandy, held by members of the Kandyan aristocracy who served as chief advisors and officials to the monarch.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.