Shankar
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Shankar is a principal form of the Hindu god Shiva, widely revered as the supreme ascetic and destroyer-transformer within the Hindu trinity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shankar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19896991 — 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: Shankar Context triple: [Shravani Mela, associatedDeity, Shankar]
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A.
Shankar
Shankar is a prominent Indian film director best known for his big-budget, socially themed blockbuster movies in Tamil cinema.
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B.
Shankar
Shankar is the surname of the renowned musical family that includes legendary sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and his daughter, singer-songwriter Norah Jones.
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C.
Shankar
Shankar is the pen name of Mani Shankar Mukherjee, a prominent Indian Bengali writer known for his novels, travelogues, and works often adapted into acclaimed films.
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D.
Shankar
Shankar is the given name of Shankar Dayal Sharma, who served as the ninth President of India.
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E.
Ayushiridara
Ayushiridara was a 14th-century Mongol ruler of the Northern Yuan dynasty, known by his regnal name Biligtü Khan.
- 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: Shankar Target entity description: Shankar is a principal form of the Hindu god Shiva, widely revered as the supreme ascetic and destroyer-transformer within the Hindu trinity.
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A.
Shankar
Shankar is a prominent Indian film director best known for his big-budget, socially themed blockbuster movies in Tamil cinema.
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B.
Shankar
Shankar is the surname of the renowned musical family that includes legendary sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and his daughter, singer-songwriter Norah Jones.
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C.
Shankar
Shankar is the pen name of Mani Shankar Mukherjee, a prominent Indian Bengali writer known for his novels, travelogues, and works often adapted into acclaimed films.
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D.
Shankar
Shankar is the given name of Shankar Dayal Sharma, who served as the ninth President of India.
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E.
Ayushiridara
Ayushiridara was a 14th-century Mongol ruler of the Northern Yuan dynasty, known by his regnal name Biligtü Khan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.