Putlibai Gandhi
E11944
Putlibai Gandhi was the deeply religious and influential mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and values profoundly shaped his character and philosophy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Putlibai Gandhi canonical | 7 |
| Kaba Gandhi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T40683 — 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: Putlibai Gandhi Context triple: [Mahatma Gandhi, mother, Putlibai Gandhi]
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A.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who led the nonviolent struggle for India’s independence and became a global symbol of peaceful resistance.
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B.
Karamchand Gandhi
Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian political figure who served as the diwan (chief minister) of the princely state of Porbandar and was the father of Mahatma Gandhi.
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C.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India and a central figure in the Indian independence movement and postcolonial nation-building.
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D.
Kasturba Gandhi
Kasturba Gandhi was an Indian political activist and the wife of Mahatma Gandhi, known for her role in the Indian independence movement and her work on social reform, especially for women.
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E.
Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Godse was an Indian nationalist and former RSS member who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, becoming one of the most infamous figures in modern Indian history.
- 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: Putlibai Gandhi Target entity description: Putlibai Gandhi was the deeply religious and influential mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and values profoundly shaped his character and philosophy.
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A.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who led the nonviolent struggle for India’s independence and became a global symbol of peaceful resistance.
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B.
Karamchand Gandhi
Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian political figure who served as the diwan (chief minister) of the princely state of Porbandar and was the father of Mahatma Gandhi.
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C.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India and a central figure in the Indian independence movement and postcolonial nation-building.
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D.
Kasturba Gandhi
Kasturba Gandhi was an Indian political activist and the wife of Mahatma Gandhi, known for her role in the Indian independence movement and her work on social reform, especially for women.
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E.
Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Godse was an Indian nationalist and former RSS member who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, becoming one of the most infamous figures in modern Indian history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian woman
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mother ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Pranami religious practices
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Vaishnava Hindu tradition ⓘ |
| child | Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Gujarati ⓘ |
| familyName |
Mahatma Gandhi
ⓘ
surface form:
Gandhi
|
| givenName | Putlibai ⓘ |
| influenced | Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
Mahatma Gandhi’s commitment to truth and nonviolence
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Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual outlook ⓘ |
| knownFor |
deep religious devotion
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observance of fasts and vows ⓘ piety ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| mother | Putlibai Gandhi self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| name | Putlibai Gandhi self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| numberOfMarriagesOfSpouse | fourth wife of Karamchand Gandhi ⓘ |
| parentalRole | formative influence on Mahatma Gandhi’s character ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Porbandar, Gujarat, India
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surface form:
Porbandar
Rajkot ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Karamchand Gandhi
ⓘ
Putlibai Gandhi self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| valueTransmitted |
compassion
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religious tolerance ⓘ self-discipline ⓘ tolerance ⓘ truthfulness ⓘ |
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: Putlibai Gandhi Description of subject: Putlibai Gandhi was the deeply religious and influential mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and values profoundly shaped his character and philosophy.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Karamchand Gandhi
subject surface form:
Mahatma Gandhi
this entity surface form:
Kaba Gandhi