Ravana
E112600
Ravana is the ten-headed demon king of Lanka in Hindu mythology, best known as the powerful antagonist of the epic Ramayana.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ravana canonical | 112 |
| Ravana (in Malay adaptations, often under localized names) | 1 |
| Ravana (in some traditions) | 1 |
| Ravana, king of Lanka | 1 |
| রাবণ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T902468 — 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: Ravana Context triple: [Ramayana, mainCharacter, Ravana]
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A.
Hiranyakashipu
Hiranyakashipu is a powerful demon king from Hindu mythology, best known as the tyrannical father of Prahlada and the antagonist slain by Vishnu’s Narasimha avatar.
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B.
Rama
Rama is a major Hindu deity and the virtuous prince-king of Ayodhya, revered as the seventh avatar of Vishnu and hero of the epic Ramayana.
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C.
Kumbhakarna
Kumbhakarna is a giant rakshasa warrior from the Indian epic Ramayana, famed for his immense size, strength, and cursed deep sleep.
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D.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya is the charioteer and seer in the Mahabharata who, granted divine vision, narrates the events of the Kurukshetra war to the blind king Dhritarashtra.
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E.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya was an early Javanese king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Mataram (Medang) Kingdom and the Sanjaya dynasty in Central Java.
- 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: Ravana Target entity description: Ravana is the ten-headed demon king of Lanka in Hindu mythology, best known as the powerful antagonist of the epic Ramayana.
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A.
Hiranyakashipu
Hiranyakashipu is a powerful demon king from Hindu mythology, best known as the tyrannical father of Prahlada and the antagonist slain by Vishnu’s Narasimha avatar.
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B.
Rama
Rama is a major Hindu deity and the virtuous prince-king of Ayodhya, revered as the seventh avatar of Vishnu and hero of the epic Ramayana.
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C.
Kumbhakarna
Kumbhakarna is a giant rakshasa warrior from the Indian epic Ramayana, famed for his immense size, strength, and cursed deep sleep.
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D.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya is the charioteer and seer in the Mahabharata who, granted divine vision, narrates the events of the Kurukshetra war to the blind king Dhritarashtra.
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E.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya was an early Javanese king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Mataram (Medang) Kingdom and the Sanjaya dynasty in Central Java.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Ravana Description of subject: Ravana is the ten-headed demon king of Lanka in Hindu mythology, best known as the powerful antagonist of the epic Ramayana.
Referenced by (116)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.