UNESCO World Heritage cave temple complex
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The UNESCO World Heritage cave temple complex at Dambulla is a vast, centuries-old Buddhist shrine in Sri Lanka renowned for its richly painted cave interiors and numerous statues of the Buddha.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19659362 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: UNESCO World Heritage cave temple complex Context triple: [Dambulla, knownFor, UNESCO World Heritage cave temple complex]
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Varaha Cave Temple
Varaha Cave Temple is a 7th-century rock-cut Hindu cave temple at Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, India, renowned for its Pallava-era bas-relief sculptures depicting Vishnu’s Varaha (boar) incarnation.
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Adhkuwari cave temple
Adhkuwari cave temple is a revered Hindu shrine and cave believed to be the meditation site of Vaishno Devi, visited by pilgrims en route to the main Vaishno Devi temple in the Trikuta hills of Jammu and Kashmir.
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C.
Leang-Leang prehistoric cave complex
Leang-Leang prehistoric cave complex is an archaeological site in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, renowned for its ancient rock art and some of the world’s oldest known cave paintings.
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Sewu temple complex
Sewu temple complex is a large 8th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple compound near Prambanan in Central Java, Indonesia, notable as one of the oldest and second-largest Buddhist temple complexes on the island.
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Karle caves
Karle Caves are an ancient complex of rock-cut Buddhist cave temples in Maharashtra, India, renowned for their grand chaitya hall and intricate carvings dating back to the early centuries BCE–CE.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: UNESCO World Heritage cave temple complex Target entity description: The UNESCO World Heritage cave temple complex at Dambulla is a vast, centuries-old Buddhist shrine in Sri Lanka renowned for its richly painted cave interiors and numerous statues of the Buddha.
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A.
Varaha Cave Temple
Varaha Cave Temple is a 7th-century rock-cut Hindu cave temple at Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, India, renowned for its Pallava-era bas-relief sculptures depicting Vishnu’s Varaha (boar) incarnation.
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B.
Adhkuwari cave temple
Adhkuwari cave temple is a revered Hindu shrine and cave believed to be the meditation site of Vaishno Devi, visited by pilgrims en route to the main Vaishno Devi temple in the Trikuta hills of Jammu and Kashmir.
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C.
Leang-Leang prehistoric cave complex
Leang-Leang prehistoric cave complex is an archaeological site in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, renowned for its ancient rock art and some of the world’s oldest known cave paintings.
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D.
Sewu temple complex
Sewu temple complex is a large 8th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple compound near Prambanan in Central Java, Indonesia, notable as one of the oldest and second-largest Buddhist temple complexes on the island.
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E.
Karle caves
Karle Caves are an ancient complex of rock-cut Buddhist cave temples in Maharashtra, India, renowned for their grand chaitya hall and intricate carvings dating back to the early centuries BCE–CE.
- F. None of above. chosen
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