First Adigar
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First Adigar was the highest-ranking ministerial position in the Kingdom of Kandy, serving as the chief advisor and administrative head under the Kandyan monarch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Adigar canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13493899 — 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: First Adigar Context triple: [Kandyan aristocracy, heldOffice, First Adigar]
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A.
Maharraqa
Maharraqa was an ancient Nubian settlement in Lower Nubia, near the Nile in what is now southern Egypt or northern Sudan, notable for its archaeological remains including a Roman-period temple.
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B.
Adigeni
Adigeni is a small town in southern Georgia, serving as a local administrative and cultural center within the Samtskhe-Javakheti region.
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C.
Iron Amir
Iron Amir is the epithet of Abdur Rahman Khan, the powerful and authoritarian 19th-century emir who unified and centralized Afghanistan through strict rule.
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D.
Sarpanit
Sarpanit is a Mesopotamian goddess, chiefly known as the consort of the Babylonian god Marduk and associated with fertility and motherhood.
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E.
Shabuhragan
Shabuhragan is a foundational Manichaean scripture, traditionally attributed to the prophet Mani, that outlines the religion’s dualistic cosmology and teachings.
- 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: First Adigar Target entity description: First Adigar was the highest-ranking ministerial position in the Kingdom of Kandy, serving as the chief advisor and administrative head under the Kandyan monarch.
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A.
Maharraqa
Maharraqa was an ancient Nubian settlement in Lower Nubia, near the Nile in what is now southern Egypt or northern Sudan, notable for its archaeological remains including a Roman-period temple.
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B.
Adigeni
Adigeni is a small town in southern Georgia, serving as a local administrative and cultural center within the Samtskhe-Javakheti region.
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C.
Iron Amir
Iron Amir is the epithet of Abdur Rahman Khan, the powerful and authoritarian 19th-century emir who unified and centralized Afghanistan through strict rule.
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D.
Sarpanit
Sarpanit is a Mesopotamian goddess, chiefly known as the consort of the Babylonian god Marduk and associated with fertility and motherhood.
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E.
Shabuhragan
Shabuhragan is a foundational Manichaean scripture, traditionally attributed to the prophet Mani, that outlines the religion’s dualistic cosmology and teachings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government position
ⓘ
ministerial office ⓘ political office ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Kingdom of Kandy
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka)
|
| associatedWith |
Kandyan court
ⓘ
linked to:
Kandyan aristocracy
Kandyan nobility ⓘ
linked to:
Kandyan aristocracy
|
| authorityDerivedFrom | royal appointment ⓘ |
| category |
Kandyan Kingdom titles
ⓘ
Sri Lankan political history ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Kandy
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka)
|
| governs | administrative apparatus of the Kandyan Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasHigherRankThan | other Kandyan ministers ⓘ |
| hasLowerRankThan | Kandyan monarch ⓘ |
| hierarchicalRank | highest-ranking ministerial position in the Kingdom of Kandy ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Kandyan monarchy
ⓘ
linked to:
Kandyan Kingdom
pre-colonial Kandyan Kingdom ⓘ
linked to:
Kandyan Kingdom
|
| historicalPeriod | early modern Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Sinhala ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| officeHolderTitleInSinhala | Adigar ⓘ |
| partOf |
government of the Kingdom of Kandy
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka)
|
| positionHeldIn | Kandyan Kingdom ⓘ |
| responsibility |
acting as chief minister
ⓘ
advising the king on state policy ⓘ coordinating government officials ⓘ implementing royal decisions ⓘ managing internal affairs of the kingdom ⓘ overseeing civil administration ⓘ |
| role |
administrative head under the Kandyan monarch
ⓘ
chief advisor to the Kandyan monarch ⓘ |
| seatOfGovernment | Kandy ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Kandyan monarch ⓘ |
| usedInSystemOfGovernment |
Kandyan feudal administration
ⓘ
monarchy ⓘ |
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: First Adigar Description of subject: First Adigar was the highest-ranking ministerial position in the Kingdom of Kandy, serving as the chief advisor and administrative head under the Kandyan monarch.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.